Buddhist Views - Buddhism and Psychology, Lgbt Topics and Buddhism, Faith in Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Women in Buddhism (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Buddhism and psychology, LGBT topics and Buddhism, Faith in Buddhism, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Women in Buddhism, Buddhist vegetarianism, Buddhist ethics, International Congress on Buddhist Women's Role in the Sangha, Sexuality and Buddhism, Buddhism and the body, Human beings in Buddhism, Buddhist anarchism, Buddhism and abortion, Animals in Buddhism, Sentient beings, Engaged Buddhism, Buddhism and euthanasia, Enlightenment in Buddhism, Buddhist socialism, Purity in Buddhism, Buddhist view of marriage, Buddhist economics. Excerpt: Buddhism and psychology overlap in theory and in practice. Over the last century, three strands of interplay have evolved: The establishment of Buddhism predates the field of psychology by over two millennia; thus, any assessment of Buddhism in terms of psychology is necessarily a modern invention. One of the first such assessments occurred when British Indologists started translating Theravada Buddhism's Abhidhamma from Pali and Sanskrit texts. Long-term efforts to juxtapose abhidhammic psychology with Western empirical sciences have been carried out by such Vajrayana leaders as Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and the 14th Dalai Lama. The earliest Buddhist writings are preserved in the three-part Tipitaka (Pali; Skt. Tripitaka). The third part (or pitaka, literally "basket") is known as the Abhidhamma (Pali; Skt. Abhidharma). Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, president of the Buddhist Publication Society, has synopsized the Abhidhamma as follows: Part of the Tipitaka written in Thai on traditional wood slices."The system that the Abhidhamma Pitaka articulates is simultaneously a philosophy, a psychology, and an ethics, all integrated into the framework of a program for liberation.... The Abhidhamma's attempt to comprehend the nature of reality, contrary to that of classical science in the West, does not p...