The article on an alternative paradigm for understanding health issues by investigating the Buddhist canon was first published The Chulalongkorn Journal of Buddhist Studies, Vol 2, No 3. The Thai Tipitaka was consulted as the basic database for gathering Buddhist principles and perspectives on health and healing. Buddhism looks at all existences in terms of integrated factors depending on processes of inter-dependent causal relationships governed by the Three Characteristics or the Dependent Origination. This premise deeply guides the disciples’ perceptions and living styles. The broadest meaning of disease in Buddhism involves all kinds of human suffering, while health is the state of being completely free from all suffering. Health quality is a collective product of previous actions starting from past lives and ending at your last second. While suitable care is given to a patient, he/she should realize the nature of this so fragile, no-self life. These principles will lead patients and their relatives to have less suffering and anxiety. It will be, moreover, a basic belief of a health system that concerns more with the spiritual aspect of life.
Author: Wichit Paonil; Luechai SringernyuangPublished: Select Date 2002
Language(s): English
Content Type(s): Text
Region(s): Asia
Link: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.605.3949&rep=rep1&type=pdf