In the early 1990s, two of Taiwan’s humanistic Buddhist groups—Buddhist Tzu Chi Compassionate Relief Foundation (Tzu Chi) and Dharma Drum Mountain (DDM)—began incorporating modern environmentalism as a major component in their religious teachings, practices, behavioral norms. Neither group had been clearly pro-environmental before but Venerable Cheng Yen, founding master Chi, Sheng DDM, redefin...