{"id":1335,"date":"2021-12-03T23:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T23:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:34:09","slug":"barbra-clayton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/barbra-clayton\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Clayton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Barbra Clayton is a scholar of classical Indian and contemporary Buddhism. A specialist in ethics, she is the author of\u00a0<em>Moral<\/em>\u00a0<em>Theory in\u00a0\u015a\u0101ntideva&#8217;s \u015aik\u1e63\u0101samuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue<\/em><em>,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>as well as numerous other publications in this area, including the<em>\u00a0Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>article on &#8220;Buddhist Ethics.&#8221; Clayton&#8217;s current research project examines Bhutan&#8217;s Gross National Happiness (GNH) Policy, and her study of GNH and Bhutanese visions of the ideal society recently appeared in <em>Buddhist Visions of the Good Life for All <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Buddhist-Visions-of-the-Good-Life-for-All\/King\/p\/book\/9780367561819\"><em>https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Buddhist-Visions-of-the-Good-Life-for-All\/King\/p\/book\/9780367561819<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Clayton co-chairs to American Academy of Religion Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and serves on the board of both the\u00a0<em>Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies (https:\/\/www.sfu.ca\/davidlamcentre\/research\/past-projects\/canadian-journal-of-buddhist-studies&#8211;cjbs-.html) <\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>Journal of Buddhist Ethics (https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/)<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At Mount Allison University, Clayton teaches courses on Buddhism and Hinduism, as well as those exploring contemporary Asian moral issues, environmental ethics, and gender issues in courses such as &#8220;Quest for Enlightenment,&#8221; and &#8220;Mother Earth, Father Sky: Religions, Humans, and Nature.&#8221; This year, her third-year &#8220;Religious Ethics and the Environment&#8221; seminar participants will apply their learning to co-design Mount Allison University&#8217;s green roof learning space. Dr. Clayton is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, as well as an\u00a0RPEACE\u00a0research associate who teaches in the newly-established\u00a0Community Engaged Learning\u00a0program. She is a long-time environmental activist and volunteer working \u00a0with local organizations such as EOS Eco-Energy (https:\/\/eosecoenergy.com\/en\/) to help promote a just and truly sustainable transformation \u00a0of our economy and society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Barbra Clayton is a scholar of classical Indian and contemporary Buddhism. A specialist in ethics, she is the author of\u00a0Moral\u00a0Theory in\u00a0\u015a\u0101ntideva&#8217;s \u015aik\u1e63\u0101samuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue,\u00a0as well as numerous other publications in this area, including the\u00a0Oxford Handbook of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11042],"tags":[19373,17912,19026,19127,19487,19063,10584,18943],"acf":[],"geo":{"latitude":45.899394999999998,"longitude":-64.373100300000004,"description":"Mount Allison University, Salem Street, Sackville, Sackville Parish, Westmorland County, New Brunswick, E4L 1E1, Canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/wisar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}