An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology

Download or read book An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology written by De Padmasiri Silva and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible, and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism, and thus it deals with the nature of psychological inquiry, concepts of the mind, consciousness and behavior, motivation, emotions and percentile, and the therapeutic structure of Buddhist psychology. For the third edition, a new chapter on the mind-body relationship and Buddhist contextualism has been added.