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Buddhism and western psychology

Buddhism and western psychology
Format: Book (multiple authors)
Publication Year: 1983
Publisher: Prajñā Press
Place of Publication: Boulder, CO
Sources ID: 125390
Visibility: Public (group default)
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Buddhism and Western Psychology represents one of the early volumes to contain reflections on the interface between Buddhism and psychology from a diverse and expert group of Western Buddhist scholars, psychologists, and Asian Buddhists. Fourteen essays are organized according to four major Buddhist traditions: (1) Pāli Buddhism; (2) Japanese Buddhism; (3) Sanskrit (Mahāyāna) Buddhism; and (4) Tibetan Buddhism. Areas of Western influence come from psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, German phenomenology and the related field of existential psychology or "daseinanalyse." (Zach Rowinski 2005-03-10)

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Preface -- Introductory essay: The meeting of Buddhism and Western psychology / The Venerable Ch&#x00F6;gyam Trungpa Rinpoche -- Pt. 1 Psychological implications of P&#x0101;li Buddhism : 1. Defense mechanisms according to psychoanalysis and the P&#x0101;li <i>Nik&#x0101;yas</i> / Rune E. A. Johansson ; 2. Psychological observations on the "Life of the Gotama Buddha" / George R. Elder ; 3. The concept of Citta in some early Buddhist texts and Jung&#x2019;s analytical psychology / Jan T. Ergardt ; 4. Mind/Cosmos Maps in the P&#x0101;li <i>Nik&#x0101;yas</i> / Peter Masefield ; 5. The ideational content of the Buddha&#x2019;s enlightenment as <i>Selbstverwirklichung</i> / Mukusen Miyuki ; 6. Emotions and therapy: Three paradigmatic zones / M.W. Padmasiri de Silva -- Pt. 2. Psychological implications of Japanese Buddhism : 7. Illusion and human suffering: a brief comparison of Horney&#x2019;s ideas with Buddhistic understanding of mind / Akihisa Kondo; 8. The meaning of death in psychoanalysis, existential phenomenology and D&#x014D;gen Zen / Steve Heine ; 9. The human situation and Zen Buddhism / Richard J. DeMartino -- pt. 3. Psychological implications of Sanskrit Buddhism : 10. <i>Prasa&#x1E45;ga</I> and double-bind / Gustavo Banavides ; 11. <i>Paratantra</i> and <i>parikalpita</i> as epistemological concepts in Yog&#x0101;c&#x0101;ra Buddhism and Holographic psychology / Stephen Kaplan -- pt. 4. Psychological implications of Tibetan Buddhism : 13. Buddhist rDzogs-chen thought and Western "Daseinanalyse" / Herbert V. Guenther ; 14. On the phenomena of the "feminine" according to tantric hagiographical texts and Jungian psychology / Nathan Katz

Subjects: 
Tibetan Buddhism
Vajrayāna Buddhism
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Zen Meditation/Zazen
Zen/Ch’an Buddhism