PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM

Leslie S. Kawamura; Leslie S. Kawamura

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9744.1990.tb00870.x

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PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM

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Abstract. This paper presents Buddhism as a path theory in which the adherent practices mindfulness in order to see the world as‐it‐is. The world as presented in a human situation is an interdependently originating process to which one can bring meaning but in which meaning is not inherent. The conceptualizing process by which one concretizes reality is the foundation on which human frustrations and disease arise. However, it is by this conceptualizing process that one establishes a cosmological view of the universe. The soteriological consideration in Buddhism is to realize that reality created by the mind is like an illusion, a concretization of an interdependently originating process into a substantive reality. Through this realization one can remove the delusion created by mind and see reality as‐it‐is.

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problems of existence, cosmology, Buddhism, soteriology, mindfulness, reality

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Kawamura, L., (1990) “PRINCIPLES OF BUDDHISM”, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 25(1), 59–72. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.1990.tb00870.x

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Leslie S. Kawamura (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)

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Volume 25 • Issue 1 • March 1990

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Pages	59–72
Published on	1990-03-02

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