Abstract： This essay aims to contribute to the ongoing discussions and debates regarding the nature of ecocriticism through a preliminary and preparatory consideration of the classical Chinese and Japanese Zen ecoethicalaesthetics of what the Japanese Zen Master Dōgen Eihei called “the great earth,” beyond all national, cultural, and other kinds of political boundaries. The clouds do not take note that they are passing from India into China. This is not, however, to evacuate differences, but to radicalize and cherish them from the perspective of the shared earth as the oneness (but not sameness) in and through which we come to experience differences not as liabilities, but as assets. Such a standpoint, however, demands that we think beyond the great ego investments of the globalized earth (my self, my nation, my culture, etc.) that mobilize differences as inherently antagonistic. The Great Earth is the cooriginating interdependence that is our shared ecology. A contemporary Buddhist ecocritical sense of self is a self awakened from its unconscious and tyrannical prejudice that it is the master point of reference for all that is valuable into the awakening of its shared being with the earth.
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詹森·M·沃尔斯. 直教枯木放花开：走向一种禅宗佛法的生态批评[J]. 江苏大学学报（社会科学版）, 2013, 15(1): 40-47.
Jason M.Wirth. Just Teach the Withered Trees to Bloom:Toward a Zen Buddha Dharma Ecocriticism. Journal of Jiangsu University（Social Science Editi, 2013, 15(1): 40-47.
