PSY 49901 BUDDHIST PSYCHOLOGY (3)

With an eye to clinical applications, this course will teach the main notions that define Buddhism as a spiritual system:  karma, dharma, the origin and use of mantras, the 8-fold path, the psycho-physical nature of the self, the cause-and-effect law, the "world as a mirror", the intrinsic Buddha condition to all human beings, the four Noble Truths, the three treasures as well as essential definitions of existential aspects of life as suffering, happiness, altruism, love, success, fortune, etc.  This course will also propose the multiple potential pose a challenge to students who take it to engage in self-reflection as a healing practice.