The Intuitive Buddhist: Psychological Type as a New Hermeneutic of Buddhist Diversity in the West

ISBN-13: 9781789971859 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

P. N. THANISSARO

Opis

Presents hard evidence from hundreds of self-identifying Buddhists in the UK, that the diversity of Buddhists, previously described in terms of ethnic dichotomy, is better explained in terms of Psychological Type preferences.

Spis treści

List of Figures - List of Tables - List of Abbreviations - How Diverse Is a Buddhist Congregation? - Psychological Type and Individual Differences - C. G. Jung, Psychological Type and Buddhism - What Introversion and Extraversion ftean for Buddhists - What Intuition and Sensing Preferences ftean for Buddhists - What Feeling and Thinking Preferences ftean for Buddhists - What Judging and Perceiving Preferences ftean for Buddhists - Conclusion - Bibliography - Appendix A: Research ftethodology - Appendix B: Tables for Chapters 4-8 - Appendix C: Glossary of Technical Terms and Names - Index.

O autorze

Phra Nicholas Thanissaro is a Buddhist monk of 24 years standing. With thirty years of meditation experience, he is a UK Complementary Medical Association qualified teacher of meditation. Affiliated with the Dhammakaya Foundation, he is also qualified as a school teacher and MBTI practitioner. As a scholar-practitioner, during his time as Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick, he published widely in peer-reviewed journals on the formation of Buddhist identity in teenagers and continues to research the appeal of meditation in the West. He currently lectures in 'Living Buddhism' and 'Religious Individualization' at Claremont School of Theology, California and Willamette University, Oregon.