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| 0687-2160-01 | In the Footsteps of the Buddha: Philosophy Psychology & Prac | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Philosophy, Psychology and Practice in Early Buddhism
The course will critically examine the philosophy, history, psychology and practice of early Buddhism.
The course will examine basic philosophical issues and practices, as they appear in the Pali canon, the earliest Buddhist texts.
We will attend to such issues as the religious, philosophical and cultural background of early Buddhism in India; the story of the historical Buddha; the four noble truths; the notion of "not-self" and the doctrine of the five aggregates; the doctrine of dependent origination; lay people, monasticism; the un-awakened mind and the awakened mind; Buddhist meditation theory; the notion of Nibbana (nirvana) during life and after death.
Every class will be based on close reading of primary texts in English and Hebrew.
The course is not open to those who already took the course “Early Buddhism: Philosophy and Practice.”