ABSTRACT
Buddhists have a strong sense of protecting places and landscapes from the monasteries in which nuns and monks renew their vows, through landscape features such as mountains and valleys, all the way up to rituals and networks of objects used to protect entire countries or even the whole planet. In this chapter, I begin with a brief introduction to the history and key principles of Buddhist traditions and then using three regions look at topics that may be relevant to protected area managers—Buddhist protected areas, the sorts of Buddhist place that might occur within a protected area, and how Buddhists understand and behave towards the natural-and-cultural world.
