Five Aggregates Psychology - Buddhist Theory of Self-Awakening and Self-Transcendence (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Wei Hai
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Publish Date: 2000-02-01
Features: This book systematically and comprehensively reveals the rich psychological resources in the Buddhist Five Aggregates theory and its unique classical psychological paradigm using the concepts and methods of modern psychology and the expression of modern Chinese. A distinctive monograph that elaborates on Buddhist psychology. The book covers: the five aggregates system structure of the mind, the methodological characteristics of Buddhist psychology, the Huang Xiang five aggregates system, the vertical levels of the five aggregates. The arising process of the five aggregates, inner illumination and enlightenment, the application of the five aggregates paradigm in sub-disciplines of psychology, and the prospects of five aggregates psychology, etc.
1. This book primarily introduces the five aggregates psychological paradigm in a popular manner. The understanding of the paradigm is: a knowledge system that combines with the natural physical structure and laws of the object. Based on this understanding, the arising of the five aggregates is regarded as a systematic knowledge about the psychological functional system.
2. This book regards Sakyamuni Buddha as the psychologist who discovered the structure of psychological functions and the laws of arising, and established the five aggregates psychological paradigm.
3. The concept of the five aggregates does not merely imply a constructive relationship but also carries the meaning of value critique of psychological functions. Therefore, as a psychological system, the theory of the five aggregates must mention the application of the arising of the five aggregates in life cultivation. However, this book strives to avoid religious content such as Buddhist sects, beliefs, practices, and liberation.
4. The book's principles for distinguishing the categories and concepts of five aggregates psychology: The basic categories such as the arising of the five aggregates originate from Sakyamuni Buddha and have been recognized for two thousand years since their introduction to China. General concepts in the psychological field are referenced from Buddhist scriptures, modern psychology, and common Chinese usage.
5. The book understands the fundamental questions of philosophical psychology differently according to different levels of knowledge. On the level of psychological phenomena, the book agrees with the (secular truth) that the mind exists in a psychological sense, meaning existence is awareness, and affirms the "substantial existence" of the mind. On the ontological level of psychological existence, the view is "" (karma is existence), which in plain terms means "existence is the efficacy of action."
6. Primarily, this book is not a research work. The citation format balances normativity and economic principles.