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This library is a collection of articles and reference materials for the use of members of Amida Learning Community which consists of students on Amida course programmes. The site will have a growing...
View ArticleA Buddhist Perspective on Mental Health: Caroline Brazier 2006
This paper was prepared for the Nurturing Heart and Spirit: A National Multi-Faith Symposium; Held under the auspices of the Nimhe Spirituality Project, Staffordshire University and The Spirituality...
View ArticleAll Blood and Tears: Caroline Brazier 1993
A paper on the psychology of menstruation.Introduction Menstruation is a bodily function. It is experienced by almost all women for a large part of their adult life. Most writing on the subject is...
View ArticleAnger, Blame, Guilt and Sorrow: D.J. Brazier 1992
This paper is concerned with the ways in which people respond to change, conflict, threat and hurt. It considers the proper place and function of "negative" emotions and the role of therapy in helping...
View ArticleBefore and After the Awakening of Faith: D.J.Brazier 2003
What follows is a piece written for the Pureland Buddhist Studies Course based on a talk given by Dharmavidya in October 2003. Also included are the responses by students following that programme at...
View ArticleA Response to Eighteen Questions: Upaya, Epistemology and Practice -...
This paper follows on from Before and After the Awakening of FaithIn this essay I have undertaken to answer a number of questions posed by respondents to my previous writing. It would be nice to...
View ArticleUnspeakable Losses - David Brazier 1994
A paper on grief, loss and therapy. Grief is presented as a spiritual opportunity - a rare moment of truth when significant changes are possible. Two levels of adjustment to loss are defined, specific...
View ArticleNon-Self in Psychological Approaches: Anthony Richard 2008
This paper was submitted as part of the Buddhist Psychology Distance Learning. It is interesting in offering, among other things, an illustration of Anthony's client work using an other-centred...
View ArticleBeing Somebody, Being Nobody, Being Everybody: Jeff Harrison 2008
This paper was presented as the final essay for the Distance Learning year one. Somewhat longer than the normal course requirement, this paper provides a helpful summary of the work of a number of...
View ArticlePsychotherapy & Spirituality - Brazier D.J. 2007
A monograph composed March 2007Psychotherapy and SpiritualityIntroduction: What Sorts of Questions?There are two main ways in which to approach the subject of psychotherapy and spirituality. One is to...
View ArticleTaking Refuge in Other Power - Brazier D.J. 2003
A monograph produced at The Buddhist House in 2003.Amidism or Pureland is that form of Buddhism that centres upon Amida or Amitabha, the Buddha of limitless light. An Amidist is one who lives in the...
View ArticleReview: Taming the Tiger, Akong 1994 - Liz Igoe 2008
Akong Tulku 1994 Taming the Tiger - Tibetan Teachings for Improving Daily Life. London: Rider. In this book Akong Rinpoche offers a simple approach to finding the sort of happiness for oneself that...
View ArticleRight Anger - Caroline Brazier 2003
Originally published in Dharma Life MagasineThis summer the trees in our retreat centre in France were turning brown by early August. When the wind blew, sucked up by soaring thermals in the searing...
View ArticleReview: The Really Hard Problem, Flanagan 2007 - Tony Danford 2007
Owen Flanagan 2007 The Really Hard Problem – Meaning in a Material World. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT Press.Owen Flanagan1 is a naturalist – he believes that we are nothing but animals living in a...
View ArticleReview: Earth Medicine, Sams 1994 - Perry Dyson 2007
Jamie Sams 1994 Earth Medicine: Harper Collins.I have read this book many times and to me it is like an old friend which I never seem to tire of. It is a set of 364 poems and sort stores based on...
View ArticleReview: Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Nature, Laycock 1994 - Jeff...
Steven Laycock 1994, Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Nature. New York: Suny Press. The author is a professor of philosophy, an expert in western phenomenology and has a long-standing Buddhist...
View ArticleReview: Science of Survival, Hubbarb 2001 - Anthony Richard 2007
Ron Hubbard 2001 Science of Survival: R Bridge Publications. About 8 years ago whilst living in New Zealand I was seeing a therapist who background and training was a mystery to me. He was also a...
View ArticleReview: Ethics of Enlightenment, Essays and Sermons in Search of a Buddhist...
Ronald Y. Nakasone 1990 Ethics of Enlightenment, Essays and Sermons in Search of a Buddhist Ethic. Freemont, California: Dharma Cloud Publishers. This is a collection of essays and sermons by Ronald...
View ArticleReview: Full Catastrophe Living, Kabat-Zinn 2001 - Mark Walker 2007
Jon Kabat-Zinn 2001 Full Catastrophe Living. New York: Dell Publishing.This is a large book, 472 pages and for that reason may be off putting to those who approach it with anxiety or a limited...
View ArticleReview: The Meme Machine, Blackmore 1999 - Gareth Thompson
Susan Blackmore 1999 The Meme Machine. Oxford: University Press. Dr. Blackmore's The Meme Machine is not my first encounter with meme theory (or memetics), and indeed not the first work to explore...
View ArticleReview: Destructive Emotions and How we can Overcome Them: a Dialogue with...
Daniel Goleman 2003 Destructive Emotions and How we can Overcome Them: a Dialogue with the Dalai Lama. New York: Bantam Dell.This book first published in 2003 seeks a collaboration between Buddhism and...
View ArticleReview: Traversing the pure land Path - A Lifetime of Encounters with Honen...
Edited by Jonathon Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu 2005 Traversing the pure land Path - A Lifetime of Encounters with Honen Shonin: Jodo Shu Press.This is a beautifully produced book, providing an outline...
View ArticleReview: Opening the Heart of compassion, Lowenthal and Short 1993 - Bridget...
Martin Lowenthal and Lar Short 1993Opening the Heart of compassion :Transform Suffering Through Buddhist Psychology and Practice: Charles Tuttle Co. This is a wonderful book which relates the Six...
View ArticleReview: Everyday Zen, Beck 1989 - John Troutner
Charlotte Joko Beck 1989 Everyday Zen. NY: HarperCollins Publications.I would like to recommend Charlotte Joko Beck's book Everyday Zen. I just finished reading it with a religious education book group...
View ArticleReview: Lack and Transcendence 1996 - Christine Branwell 2007
David Loy 1996 Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism and Buddhism. New York: Humanity Books. "With considerable erudition, Loy succeeds in bringing...
View ArticleReview: The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness, Chodron -...
Pema Chödrön 1991 The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness. London: Element.“The talks in this book were given during a one-month practice period (dathun) in the spring of 1989” – so...
View ArticleReview: Why not Kill them All? Chicot and McCauley 2006 - Anne Jones 2007
Daniel Chicot and Clark McCauley 2006 Why not Kill them All?. The Logic and prevention of Mass political murder: Princeton University Press USA and Oxford England. Note: This essay has been greatly...
View ArticleReview: Nagarjuna's "Seventy Stanzas", Ross Komito 1987 - Bodhakari Rand 2007
David Ross Komito 1987 Nagarjuna's "Seventy Stanzas",A Buddhist Psychology of Emptiness. Ithaca, New York: Snow Lion Publications. I have chosen this book because I think it is highly relevant to the...
View ArticleReview: Choice Theory, Glasser 1998 - Padraig O'Morain 2006
William Glasser 1998 Choice Theory, A New Psychology of Personal Freedom. New York: Harper Collins. I read Dr William Glasser's book Control Theory (1984, Harper & Row, New York, 1984) more than...
View ArticleReview: Getting Our Bodies Back, Caldwell 1996 - Catherine Follett
Christine Caldwell 1996 Getting Our Bodies Back: Shambala Publications.This book is about the spiral of addiction, it's affect on the body, the body as an assessment and treatment intervention, and...
View ArticleReview: Diamond Mind, Nairn 1998 - 1st Review by Cheryl Barclay 2006, 2nd...
Rob Nairn 1998 Diamond Mind – Psychology of Meditation: Shambhala (and also, Kalk Bay, South Africa: Kairon Press Ltd) .First ReviewRob Nairn's `Diamond Mind' is a wonderfully refreshing reminder of...
View ArticleOTHER-CENTRED THERAPY A Buddhist Paradigm: Caroline Brazier 2008
OTHER-CENTRED THERAPY: A BUDDHIST PARADIGM SUMMARY Buddhist psychology offers an analysis of the self as a defensive, illusory structure, constructed in response to an awareness of the omnipresence of...
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