Buddhism & The Anthropocene through Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

Buddhism has had views on time and space that have most closely related to the more modern studies of the Anthropocene and the current time of vast changes.

In the novel A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki presents time and earth in a fluid, interconnected, and strictly non-linear way as her characters learn, grow, and interact. The Buddhist ideas of impermanence, enlightened beings, and the Four Noble Truths are lenses in which A Tale for the Time Being and the Anthropocene can be examined.

Choose which lens you'd like to look through:

Impermanence	Enlightened Beings	Four Noble Truths

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