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840:423 SEMINAR IN BUDDHISM (3)

Basic knowledge of Buddhism and looks into the psychological aspect of Buddhism. There are tow primary objectives: to be familiar with the psychological implications of central Buddhist teachings—dependent origination, not-self/no-self, and emptiness—as they are discussed within key Indian Buddhist texts and to examine critically modern scholars’ attempt to interpret and/or appropriate them via modern psychology, especially psychoanalysis.