Indian Society for Buddhist Studies

Author(s): Prachya Vidyapeeth
Publisher: Prachya Vidyapeeth

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feels that it is not morally right to leave the planet polluted for the future generations. If man is to work with a sense of responsibility to the environment and to future generations, he has to search an appropriate environmental ethic today to stop further aggravation of the present environment related problems. Hence his search for wisdom is namely, religion. All religions have different concept of cosmos, their respect for nature. Religious and Spiritual traditions are rich sources of moral values and principles for reflecting on environmental issues.
The aim of this paper is to meet to the present environmental issues depending on living and non living beings to the fullest happiness based on Buddhist literature.
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Spirits in Buddhism
Tuhina Dholey, Kolkata
The word ‘Preta’ in Sanskrit known as ghost. It's mean usually the after death life, which English or Western term is 'Spirit. According to the information or all myth of western society usually called it ghost. A spirit is a supernatural being, often but not exclusively a, non-physically entity such as ghost. But Bible describes about this spirits with its division. There is two kinds of spirits in Bible one is holy sprits and other one is called bad spirit. Western scholars, narrators, are mainly written with this bad spirits. In Bible 'The spirits' specifically denotes the Holy spirits.
In Hinduism The Gaura Purāna' mentions that after death the soul leave the human body and after leaving the body according to the deeds (Karma) soul deserve their position. Well deeds turned into a holy spirit and negative deeds won the bad spirit. Here those bad sprits usually doer of the negative things.
Like this Buddhism also said about those kind of spirit where