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Buddhism and the Coronavirus: The Buddha''s Teaching on Suffering

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By (author): Jeaneane Fowler

This book examines the early teachings of Buddhism associated with the life of the Buddha, Siddhatta Gotama. In these teachings, the Buddha put forward his famous Four Noble Truths concerning the nature of suffering, its causes, the Truth that it can be overcome, and a pathway to end suffering. The suffering experienced in the contemporary coronavirus pandemic may seem to be very distant from the Buddhas message delivered over two thousand years ago, but the teaching of the Four Noble Truths is as relevant today as it was all that time ago. So this book melds the two, occasionally with discrete treatment of past and present but ever cognizant of the ways in which the teachings of the past inform the present crisis. To understand coronaviruses, the book examines the nature of viruses, their origins, causes and the ways in which they are both friends and enemies of humankind. Importantly and crucially, the book investigates how far humanity itself is the cause of its own suffering in the pandemics that arise no less in the coronaviruses that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Chapters include: The Buddha; Viruses: Friends and Enemies; The Noble Truth of Suffering; The Second Noble Truth of the Cause of Suffering; The Third Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering; The Fourth Noble Truth: The Noble Eightfold Path; The Noble Eightfold Path: Mindfulness and Concentration; The Brahma-vihara: Love: Compassion: Sympathetic Joy: Equanimity. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 386g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Jan 2021
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789760682

About Jeaneane Fowler

Jeaneane Fowler was formerly Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Wales Newport and later an Honorary Research fellow. Her publications include Hinduism: Beliefs and Practices (Choice Outstanding Title 1997; revised and enlarged to two volumes in 2019) and in the same series Humanism Chinese Religions T'ai Chi Ch'uan Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism in Wales; and books on the Philosophy of Hinduism the Philosophy of Taosim The Bhagavad Gita and Causality.

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