The Buddhist Psychological Concepts of Samatha and Vipassana
Qing Ming
DEStech Transactions on Social Science Education and Human Science March 6, 2018 DOI: 10.12783/dtssehs/ichss2017/19575 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Buddhism Meditation |
| Key points | Argues that samatha and vipassana, the key concepts of Buddhism's traditional psychology, incorporate in some form and to some degree the major philosophical and psychological ideas of Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantric Buddhism, and proposes to clarify their textual sources, meanings, and mutual relationship through a hermeneutical study of classical Pali and Chinese Mahayana Buddhist texts. |
Abstract
The key concepts of Buddhism’s traditional psychology are samatha and vipassana, which incorporates, in some form and to some degree, all Theravada Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism and Tantric Buddhism’s philosophical and psychological major ideas. Therefore, this paper will use hermeneutics as its research method, take the study of the concept of samatha and vipassana in classical Pali texts and Chinese traditional Mahayana Buddhist texts as its objects of research, and the study will be conducted from three aspects: 1) the suttic and commentarial sources of samatha and vipassana; 2) the meaning of samatha and vippasana, and 3) the relationship between samatha and vippasana.
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