An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology
An introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology, this book deals with the nature of psychological inquiry, concepts of mind, conciousness and behaviour, emotions and personality, motivation and the therapeutic structures of Buddhist psychology.
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Stephen T. Davis Clement Dore Lynn A. de Silva Ramchandra Gandhi Harold Hewitt (editor) John Hick and Edmund Meltzer (editors) Christopher lves Julius L. Lipner Hugo A. Meynell
D. Z. Phillips Bernard M.G. Reardon
Bruce R. Reichenbach Joseph Runzo Arvind Sharma
LOGIC AND THE NATURE OF GOD DEATH AND AFTERLIFE GOD, SUFFERING AND SOLIPSISM MORAL SCEPTICISM THE PROBLEM OF THE SELF IN BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY THE AVAILABILITY OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION THREE FAITHS- ONE GOD ZEN AWAKENING AND SOCIETY THE FACE OF TRUTH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF BERNARD LONERGAN (2nd Edition) BELIEF, CHANGE AND FORMS OF LIFE HEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION KANT AS PHILOSOPHICAL THEOLOGIAN THE LAW OF KARMA: A PHILOSOPHICAL STL'DY REASON, RELATIVISM AND GOD A HINDU PERSPECTIVE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
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CONCEPT AND EMPATHY RELIGION AND THE WESTERN MIND TOWARDS A WORLD THEOLOGY JUDAISM AND WORLD RELIGION CONCEPTS OF THE ULTIMATE
An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology Padmasiri de Silva Senior Teaching Fellow Department of Philosophy National University of Singapore
Foreword by John Hick Second Edition
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© M. W. Padmasiri de Silva 1979, 1991 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WCiE 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First edition 1979 Second edition 1991 Published by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Typeset by Footnote Graphics Warminster, Wiltshire
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data De Silva, Padmasiri An introduction to Buddhist psychology—(Library of philosophy and religion) I. Buddhism Psychology I. Title II. Series I5O'I
BQ4570.P76
ISBN 978-0-333-55682-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-21212-5
ISBN 978-1-349-21212-5 (eBook)
TO THOSE WHO LIKE 'the simple things in life'
Contents FOREWORD BY JOHN HICK
IX
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
XI
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION I
BASIC FEATURES OF BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY
2
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COGNITION
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3 MOTIVATION AND EMOTIONS
35
4 PERSONALITY
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5 BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY AND THE WEST: AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THERAPEUTIC SYSTEMS
99
6 HEALTH AND SICKNESS IN BUDDHIST PERSPECTIVE
I23
NOTES
I42
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Vll
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Foreword Buddhism is the most psychologically interested of the great world religions. For when, some twenty-five centuries ago, Gotama the Buddha experienced the ultimate liberation which is nirvana and bec
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