Buddhism - Science and Medicine

The European structure of thinking has led us into an ecologic and economic crisis that is going to destroy nature and social structures. In this situation the thinking structure of Buddhism is very interesting and helpful because it reveals the fundamental presuppositions of European thinking as fictions: the separation between consciousness and world, theory and practice, the real and the sense (meaning), the transitory and the eternal.
o The frame of the mind is the condition of the world.
o The Eightfold Path is not normative ethics.
o Buddhism grounds on instability, therefore, we cannot assume that something remains eternally unchanged.

Table of Contents

Friedrich Wallner und Michael Franck (University of Vienna)
How Buddhist Philosophy can help us to identify the cultural sources of our global crises

Somparn Promta (Department of Philosophy, Chulalongkorn University)
Enlightened Life
Integration of Buddha's Teaching and Biology

Sumalee Mahanarongchai (Thammasat University, Bangkok)
The Mind's Facticity and the Rise of Disease

Nicole Holzenthal Intersophia (International Network of Philosophical Studies, University of Oviedo (Spain))
How do cultural presuppositions influence sciences?
Illustrated by means of the Western distinction: phenomena/something behind in genetics

HASHI Hisaki (Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna)
The Theory of 'Between' - 'Transmission' - 'Intra-Relation'
Toward the Cognition of the Universal Truth in Huayen- and Zen Buddhism

Pataraporn Sirikanchana (Thammasat University and Buddhist World University, Bangkok)
Phra Brahmagunabhorn (P.A. Payutto)'s Exposition of Buddhist Teachings and Practices for Health Care

Gerhard Klünger
Buddhas "Noble Eightfold Path" in its Western Interpretation as a Means of Mental Health

Helmut Reinalter (Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck)
Globale Ethik
Weltethos und Buddhismus

Tavivat Puntarigvivat (Institute of Research and Development of the World Buddhist University)
Buddhism and Psycho-Analysis
The Teachings of Luangpor Teean

Christine Korischek (Sigmund Freud University)
Chanmi Qigong Practice
A Subtle Process of Change

Andrea Riegel
The Yijing - a Main Source for Chinese Medical Theories

Günter Gunia (Universität Potsdam)
Buddhistische Perspektiven in der Akupunktur