Resources Library

Grief

Books

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow
  Francis Weller
  A seminal work on grief as a communal, ecological, and initiatory process, drawing from psychology, ritual traditions, and embodied practice.

• Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community
  Malidoma Patrice Somé
  A guide to ritual as a healing force, emphasizing grief rituals as essential for restoring balance between individuals, community, and the Earth.

• The Spirit of Intimacy
  Sobonfu Somé
  A relational and spiritual lens on healing, loss, and connection, grounded in indigenous wisdom and communal care.

Articles & Teachings

• Thich Nhat Hanh – The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism
  https://www.lionsroar.com/the-fourteen-precepts-of-engaged-buddhism/

• In Engaged Buddhism, Peace Begins with You
  https://www.lionsroar.com/in-engaged-buddhism-peace-begins-with-you/

Ecological & Buddhist Perspectives

• Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
  Joanna Macy & Molly Young Brown

• Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis
  David Loy

• The Shamanic Bones of Zen: Revealing the Ancestral Spirit and Mystical Heart of a Sacred Tradition
  Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

• Animistic and Shamanic Elements of Asian Buddhism: Should Convert Buddhists in the West Reclaim These Ancestral Elements?
  Kritee Kanko

Death & Dying Well

Books

• Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition
  Andrew Holecek
  A clear, grounded guide to preparing for death through contemplative practice, drawn from Tibetan Buddhist teachings and modern psychology.

• The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die
  Kathleen Dowling Singh
  A compassionate exploration of the spiritual processes that often unfold at the end of life, based on years of hospice experience.

• Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Love and Dying
  Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush
  Gentle, intimate reflections on accompanying one another through dying, grief, and love with honesty and heart.

• Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
  Richard Rohr
  A spiritual framework for understanding loss, aging, and death as initiatory passages into wisdom and wholeness.

• Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
  Stephen Levine
  A contemplative inquiry into identity, impermanence, and presence, inviting a deeper relationship with death as a teacher.

• The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
  Frank Ostaseski
  Practical and humane teachings from decades of end-of-life care, offering guidance on living and dying with openness and integrity.

• Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
  Roshi Joan Halifax
  A synthesis of Buddhist practice, ethics, and caregiving wisdom for accompanying dying persons with steadiness and compassion.

• Is a River Alive?
  Robert Macfarlane
  A lyrical and rigorously researched exploration of rivers as living beings, weaving together ecology, law, Indigenous wisdom, and deep attention to place to reframe how we relate to the natural world.

Online Resource

• Transitional Life Care
  A Vajrayana Buddhist education and support program offering spiritual resources for the end-of-life transition.

Peer-Reviewed Research on Eco-Grief & Climate Anxiety

Claiming Ecological Grief: Why Are We Not Mourning (More and More Publicly) for Ecological Destruction?
Varutti, M. Ambio (2024).
A peer-reviewed exploration of ecological grief, public mourning, and cultural responses to environmental loss.
🔗 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10920496/

Ecological Grief as a Mental Health Response to Climate Change-Related Loss
Cunsolo, A. & Ellis, N.R. Nature Climate Change (2018).
Foundational research defining ecological grief and its psychological and community impacts.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0092-2