Buddhism in Asia and Beyond

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This course examines how the Buddha's question of how to end suffering developed out of the historical, religious, and cultural context of his time as well as how his insights spread and were adapted throughout Asia and into the modern world. It investigates the source of such practices as yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, which have become influential in the West, and considers ways of thinking about the self, death and dying, and the mind--all of which have challenged and expanded approaches to psychology, the hospice movement, and neuroscience in the world today.