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Table 2.

Characteristics of selected Buddhist enterprises

Enterprises	Purpose	Means	Outcomes
Patagonia	Catalyzing progressive environmental change by ecologically conscious business	Producing and selling frugal and reusable products with minimal environmental impact	Donating all the net profit of the company for preserving and restoring the Earth’s ecosystems (Ims and Zsolnai, 2023)
Green Monday	Introducing plant-based food products to increase human health and reduce animal suffering	Operation of plant-based food restaurants and shops and promoting local and global community building	Real impact on the culture of food consumption and people’s lifestyle in Hong Kong and globally and strengthening sustainable food industry cooperation (Ocsai, 2023)
Loden Enterprises	Follow the Bodhisattva ideal by integrating spiritual values into business operations	Developing small-scale, locally based enterprises that foster economic development and community wellbeing	Producing scented incense, organic food with eatable flowers, authentic Bhutanese prayer flags and running vegetarian coffeehouse (Valcsicsak, 2023)
Apopo	Effective, humanitarian help for people in Africa and Asia whose lives are threatened by war and diseases	Using trained rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis	Thousands of lives saved, socio-economic and health development programs, transforming the public perception of rats (Zsolnai, 2015)

Enterprises	Purpose	Means	Outcomes
Patagonia	Catalyzing progressive environmental change by ecologically conscious business	Producing and selling frugal and reusable products with minimal environmental impact	Donating all the net profit of the company for preserving and restoring the Earth’s ecosystems (Ims and Zsolnai, 2023)
Green Monday	Introducing plant-based food products to increase human health and reduce animal suffering	Operation of plant-based food restaurants and shops and promoting local and global community building	Real impact on the culture of food consumption and people’s lifestyle in Hong Kong and globally and strengthening sustainable food industry cooperation (Ocsai, 2023)
Loden Enterprises	Follow the Bodhisattva ideal by integrating spiritual values into business operations	Developing small-scale, locally based enterprises that foster economic development and community wellbeing	Producing scented incense, organic food with eatable flowers, authentic Bhutanese prayer flags and running vegetarian coffeehouse (Valcsicsak, 2023)
Apopo	Effective, humanitarian help for people in Africa and Asia whose lives are threatened by war and diseases	Using trained rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis	Thousands of lives saved, socio-economic and health development programs, transforming the public perception of rats (Zsolnai, 2015)

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