The Authority of Experience: Readings on Buddhism and Psychology

by John Pickering

This collection of writings presents contemporary views on the integration of Buddhism in the West. Over the past few decades Buddhism has deepened its presence in the West and as a result teachings and practices are becoming integrated with those of Western psychology in a more productive way. The decline of mechanism and positivism offers new opportunities to bring together Western Buddhist views of the mind and its relationship to its surroundings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700704507
• ISBN13: 9780700704507
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"