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| Enlightenment as a Psychological Construct and as a Buddhist Religious Pursuit: A Cross-cultural Understanding | ||
| 作者 | Meng, Lingqi ; Boyd-Wilson, Belinda |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.18 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 頁次 | 402 - 418 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Authors affiliation: College of Education, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, China; Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| 摘要 | Enlightenment has been explored in a variety of ways, for example, in Buddhist cultural traditions and in psychological science. In this essay, we categorise enlightenment as both a religious pursuit and psychological construct in order to reach a deep understanding. We summarise the key elements of enlightenment in Chinese Chan history and the development of an Enlightenment Scale in a Western context then discuss the weaknesses of Chan teaching methods with respect to the assessment of levels of Chan practitioners’ enlightenment. Instrument development methods in Western psychological science provide a useful way to capture the concept of enlightenment, and we argue that the Enlightenment Scale can be used to assess Chan practitioners’ enlightenment. The Enlightenment Scale may not assess all features of enlightenment from a Chan Buddhist perspective, so it is proposed that the scale is examined and if necessary adapted accordingly, a research area in Chinese Buddhist study that to date has been neglected. |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2017.1396049 |
| 點閱次數 | 28 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.02.28 |
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