Buddhist Thought and Applied Psychological Research: Transcending the Boundaries

by Nauriyal; D.K.

• ISBN13: 9780415374316
• ISBN10: 0415374316
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-13
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The interface between Buddhist Studies and the uses of Buddhist principles and practices in psychotherapy and consciousness studies has attracted a growing interest from scholars and researchers of both Buddhism and psychology. This book examines the origins and expressions of Buddhist thought, and how it is now being utilized by psychologists and social scientists. The basic tenets of Buddhism and contemporary Buddhist-based empirical research in the psychological sciences are explained. Further emphasis is placed on current trends in the areas of clinical and cognitive psychology and on the Mahayana Buddhist understanding of consciousness with reference to certain developments in Consciousness Studies and Physics.

Table of Contents

About the editors	xiii
Notes on contributors	xv
Foreword by HH Dalai Lama	xix
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgements	xxxv
PART I An understanding of consciousness from traditional Buddhist philosophical perspectives	1	(226)
1 The first-person perspective in postmodern psychology	3	(17)
JOHN PICKERING
2 The spiritual significance of emptiness in Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika	20	(16)
WILLIAM L. AMES
3 A comparison of Alaya-vijñana in Yogacara and Dzogchen	36	(33)
DAVID F. GERMANO AND WILLIAM S. WALDRON
4 Rangjung Dorje's variegations of mind: ordinary awareness and pristine awareness in Tibetan Buddhist literature	69	(24)
MICHAEL R. SHEEHY
5 Nirvana and neuroscience: the self-liberating brain	93	(19)
GUY CLAXTON
6 Vacuum states of consciousness: a Tibetan Buddhist view	112	(10)
B. ALAN WALLACE
7 The co-emergence of the knower and the known: a comparison between Madhyamaka and Kant's epistemology	122	(27)
MICHEL BITBOL
8 The Bodhisattva's brain: neuroscience and happiness	149	(26)
OWEN FLANAGAN JR
9 The co-arising of self and object, world, and society: Buddhist and scientific approaches	175	(34)
WILLIAM S. WALDRON
10 Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology	209	(18)
VICTOR MANSFIELD
PART II Mental afflictions: their arising and deconstruction	227	(289)
Section one
11 Mindfulness in the Pali Nikayas	229	(21)
VEN. ANALAYO
12 The transformative impact of non-self	250	(12)
ANDREW OLENDZKI
13 Tsong-kha-pa's gradual path system for ending mental afflictions and his methods for countering anger	262	(23)
JAMES APPLE
14 Western science meets Eastern wisdom to experience bodily feelings	285	(17)
MICHAEL S. DRUMMOND
15 Zen koan and mental health: the art of not deceiving yourself	302	(12)
MU SOENG
16 Buddhism in America: the primacy of meditative practice	314	(27)
CHRISTOPHER D. TORI
Section two
17 Destructive emotions	341	(33)
DANIEL J. GOLEMAN
18 Finding the middle way: a multi-domain model of meditation in the treatment of compulsive eating	374	(19)
JEAN KRISTELLER AND JAMES W. JONES
19 Mindfulness meditation in the prevention and treatment of addictive behaviors	393	(21)
SARAH BOWEN, GEORGE A. PARKS, ANIL COUMAR, AND G. ALAN MARLATT
20 Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression	414	(17)
JOHN D. TEASDALE
21 The psychological processes underlying mindfulness: exploring the link between Buddhism and modern contextual behavioral psychology	431	(21)
STEVEN C. HAYES. CHAD SHENK, AKIHIKO MASUDA, AND KARA BUNTING
22 Buddhist practices and emotional intelligence: finding the convergence	452	(20)
JOSEPH CIARROCHI
23 Mindfulness and enactment in psychoanalysis	472	(19)
JEREMY D. SAFRAN
24 Contributions of modern psychological methods to the attainment of Buddhist goals	491	(11)
MARVIN LEVINE
Epilogue: where we are and where we are likely to go	502	(14)
CHRISTOPHER D. TORI AND D. K. NAURIYAL
Name index	516	(1)
Subject index	517