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ESSAY 1 Bridge between the Enlightenments: How the Buddha's Enlightenment (Bodhi) Influenced the European Enlightenment (a.k.a.) the Age of Reason
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1.
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Buddhist Influences on the Philosophy of David Hume: Radical Empiricism and No-Self
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16
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2.
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Major Chinese Buddhist-Influenced European Philosophers of the Enlightenment: Hume's European Predecessors
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31
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3.
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Resume of Hume's Philosophy and its Buddhist Homologues
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47
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4.
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Probable Theravada (South Asian) Influences on Hume
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59
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5.
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Probable Influence of Tibetan Buddhism on Hume
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71
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6.
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The Buddha and Hume on the Role of Belief and Imagination in the Construction of Self-Identity
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81
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7.
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Associations and Relations in Buddhism and Hume
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101
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8.
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Necessity for a Meditative-Introspective Framework for Minute Analyis of Mind, Penetration of the Characteristic of Insubstantiality/No-self; Cognition of Momentariness
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108
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9.
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Causality, Probability and Necessary Connection
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116
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10.
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Reason and Authority: Anti-Metaphysical Attitude of the Buddha and Hume
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132
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11.
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Summary and Conclusion
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137
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ESSAY 2 Buddhism and the Mind Sciences: An Inquiry into a Pattern of Assimilation and Appropriation of Buddhist Concepts and Practices in Psychology and Psychotherapy
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Part One: Abhidharma Phenomenology
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1.
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Descriptive Phenomenology (Abhidharma)
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166
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2.
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Mrs. Rhys Davids Assessment of Buddhist Psychology: Comparisons with Ancient Greek and Contemporaneous Western Psychology
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172
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3.
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The Ghost of David Hume
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179
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4.
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William James and the Psychologtization of Buddhism
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182
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5.
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Thematic Overlaps between Buddhism and James: Psychology
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192
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6.
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Hume, James and Yogachara Buddhism
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208
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7.
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Pure Experience: James, Suzuki and Zen
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221
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8.
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Pragmatism in Buddhism and James
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227
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9.
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The Buddha and James' Pragmatic Treatment of Metaphysical Problems
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234
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10.
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Some Conclusions on the Lineage of Buddhist Influences on James from Hume
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238
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11.
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William James and Henri Bergson
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247
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12.
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Lama Anagarika Govinda and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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267
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Part Two: Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology
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1.
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Humanistic-Existentialist Psychology and Zen: Eric Fromm and D.T. Suzuki, Abraham Maslow, the Human Potential Movement and Self-Actualization
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271
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2.
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Buddha-Nature and Self-Actualization
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289
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3.
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Freedom, Creativity and Self-Knowledge
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294
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4.
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Impermanence-Buddha-Nature in Zen: Human Nature as "Being-in-the-Process of Becoming" in Humanistic Psychology
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301
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5.
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Transpersonal Psychology
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305
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6.
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Buddha Nature and the Farther Reaches of Human Nature
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313
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7.
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Recapitulation: From Humanistic Psychology to Transpersonal Psychology
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318
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8.
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John Welwood
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340
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ESSAY 3 Buddhism and Contemporary Science: The Digestion of Buddhist Concepts in the Contemporary Sciences of Evolutionary Biology, Cognitive Science and Neurophenomonology
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The Two Main Concepts--Categories of Appropriation from Buddhism and Two Branches of Sciences into which they have been appropriated: 1) Biology-Neurobiology and 2) Neurophenomenology
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398
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2.
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The Embodied Mind
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3.
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Language and the Structuring of Experience
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413
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4.
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The ;Cognitive Unconscious' (Alaya-vijnana) as Embodied Structuring of Experience
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439
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5.
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Vijnaptimatrata Theory of Non-Dual Perception and Operational Closure in the Biology of Cognition
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446
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6.
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The Basal Consciousness and the Common Matrix of Experience in Yogacara Buddhism and Evolutionary Biology
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454
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7.
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The Selfless Self
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466
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8.
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Neurophenomenology
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496
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9.
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Mindfulness and Psychoanalysis Compared
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522
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10.
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A Buddhist Version of Phenomenological Reduction
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528
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11.
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Convergence of Phenomenological Approaches of Buddhism and Husserl
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539
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12.
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The Theme of Sunyata in Mahayana and Vajrayana Practice
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543
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13.
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The Continuing Trend of Assimilation and Digestion
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550
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14.
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Contemplative Science: Allan Wallace and the Common Ground
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566
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15.
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Another Opinion on the Conceptual Character of Christian Contemplative Practices: Paul F. Knitter on the Inadequacy of Christian Contemplative Practices
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599
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Summary and Conclusion
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604
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Bibliography
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605
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