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Title: On being a non-Buddhist Buddhist : a conversation with myself
Language of title: English
Author/Creator: Seth Robert Segall

Description: In this chapter of the volume Encountering Buddhism : Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings, author Seth Robert Segal, a professor at Yale School of Medicine and the director of psychology and psychological training at Waterbury Hospital, has an engaging and creative conversation between his "two selves"- his Buddhist self and his self that is a skeptical, agnostic, and logical research scientist. WIth frankness and in the spirit of genuine inquiry, the author raises fundamental issues about Buddhism as a religion, who the Buddha actually was, Buddhist views on the self, karma, morality, and the mind, as well as the natural disagreements and confusions science, or anyone grounded in "Western" culture may have. The conversation does not seek to have a "winner" as much as it functions to highlight different sides of what it means to encounter and take seriously Buddhism and Buddhist teachings from the perspective of an educated Westerner. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-18)

Publisher Place: Albany, NY
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Normalized publisher place: Albany, NY
Publisher country: United States
Publisher URL: http://www.sunypress.edu/index.asp?site=True
Published Date: 2003
Subject: Science
Zen
Vajrayāna Buddhism
Mindfulness meditation
Selflessnes
Mahāyanā Buddhism
Classification: Buddhism and Science -- Buddhism -- Tibetan Buddhism
Buddhism and Science -- International Science -- Psychology
Buddhism and Science -- Buddhism -- Zen/Ch’an Buddhism
Buddhism and Science -- Buddhism -- Theravāda Buddhism
Cultural Coverage: United States
Temporal coverage: 21st century CE
Language: English
Series 2 editor:
Source URL: http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60757
Source: Encountering Buddhism : Western psychology and Buddhist teachings
Source Editor: Seth Robert Segall
Source Type: Collected Volume (single author)
Source Page Numbers: 75-108
ISBN/ISSN: 0791457354 (alk. paper)
Format: Print media (print or manuscript, including PDFs)
Resource Type: Chapter (single author)
Release Flag: OK for viewing
Date Of Record Creation: 2005-03-25 14:46:04
Date Last Modified: 2006-05-16 00:06:02
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