Christopher Ives

Christopher Ives is a professor of Religious Studies at Stonehill College south of Boston. In his teaching and writing he focuses on ethics in Zen Buddhism and Buddhist approaches to nature and environmental issues. His publications include Zen Ecology: Green and Engaged Living in the Face of the Climate Crisis; Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage; Meditations on the Trail: A Guidebook for Self-Discovery; Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics; Zen Awakening and Society; and a translation (with Gishin Tokiwa) of Shin’ichi Hisamatsu’s Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics, the Advisory Group of the Forum on Religion and Ecology, and the board of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. In his spare time he enjoys wandering in the backcountry and paddling out into surf.