Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved

Jonathan S Watts, Yoshiharu Tomatsu, Jonathan S Watts, Yoshiharu Tomatsu

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781614290636
• Topic: Theologie & Religion
• Subtopic: Religiöse Beratung

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying. Indeed, the tradition emphasizes turning toward the realities of sickness, old age, and death - and using those very experiences to develop wisdom and liberating compassion. In recent decades, Buddhist chaplains and caregivers all over the world have been drawing on this tradition to contribute greatly to the development of modern palliative and hospice care in the secular world at large. Specifically Buddhist hospice programs have been further developing and applying traditional Buddhist practices of preparing for death, attending the dying, and comforting the bereaved. Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved contains comprehensive overviews of the best of such initiatives, drawn from diverse Buddhist traditions, and written by practitioners who embody the best of contemporary Buddhist hospice care programs practiced all over the world today.Contributors include Carl B. Becker, Moichiro Hayashi, Yozo Taniyama, Mari Sengoku, Phaisan Visalo, Beth Kanji Goldring, Caroline Prasada Brazier, Joan Jiko Halifax, and Julie Chijo Hanada.

Index

A

achars (temple functionaries, Cambodia), 152, 274n4

ACPE. See Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE)

advance directives, 22, 121, 138, 212

afterlife, Buddhist discussion of, 31

aging

in Japan, 16, 19, 25, 57

role of Buddhism in facing, 26–29

AIDS communities

AIDS hospice, in Thailand, 133

Buddhist-based care in, 13–14

case studies, 149–50, 158, 159–60

Maitri Hospice, 229, 230–35

views about AIDS, 274n3

See also Cambodia

Aikenhead, Mary, 2

America. See USA

Amida Buddha

compassion of, 106–7

nenbutsu-ko, 54

recitation of his name, 54, 85, 104, 105

seeing, during one’s last moments, 5, 30–31

Amitabha Buddha, 124–25

ancestors in Japanese society, 8, 33, 34, 71, 75, 90–91, 205

See also Funeral Buddhism (soshiki bukkyo) in Japan

antiretroviral care. See ARVs (antiretroviral care)

APC. See Association of Professional Chaplains (APC)

Aries, Philippe, 25

art therapy, 121–22

ARVs (antiretroviral care), 151, 157, 158–59, 160, 162, 167

Asoka Vihara Clinic, 96, 102, 109

assisted death, Buddhist view on, 115

Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE), 239

Association of Clinical Buddhist Studies, 114, 119

Association of Professional Chaplains (APC), 226, 239

B

balance, importance of for clinicians, 217–18, 220–21, 261–62

Barnard, Christiaan, 174

Baugher, John, 194, 204–5

“Bearing Witness” practice, 220

Becker, Carl, 8, 50, 55, 71

“being with dying,” 7, 154–57

See also Upaya Being with Dying Program (BWD)

bereavement

in Japanese Buddhism, 31–32, 71–72

services at Dechen Shying spiritual care facility, 204–5

See also mourning

Block, Jennifer, 241–43

bodhisattva practices

in CPE training, 242

organ donation as, 6, 126, 127

taking on illness, 5

true regard and, 66

vow to save all beings, 242

bodies after death, ethical and religious practices, 124–25

Boisen, Anton T., 10, 239

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