This book is a comprehensive analysis and overview of psychologist Carl Jung's ideas and commentaries on Buddhism. Provided here are all four of his main essays on Zen and Tibetan Buddhism and psychology, together with a published transcript of Jung's talk with the Japanese Zen master Shin'ichi Hisamatsu and the surrounding letters and symposium that followed their meeting. These essays and transcripts provide the basis for extensive analysis of Jung and Buddhism in a total of nine essays by religious scholars, psychologists, and Buddhists. Covered by the authors are Jung's theory of individuation, the concept of synchronicity, the Buddhist view of the self, Tantric Buddhism, Freud, psychoanalysis, and application of Jungian concepts to Buddhist ideas of the tathāgatagarbha (Buddha-essence), the Bodhisattva, and the figure of the ḍākiṇī. (Zach Rowinski 2005-01-05)
Introduction: the dialogue between Jungian psychoanalysis and Buddhist spirituality / D.J. Meckel and R.L. Moore -- Pt. 1. Jung on Buddhism : 1. Forward to Suzuki's "Introduction to Zen Buddhism" / C.G. Jung ; 2. The psychology of eastern meditation / C.G. Jung ; 3. Psychological commentary on <i>The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation</i> / C.G. Jung ; 4. Psychological Commentary on <i>The Tibetan Book of the Dead</i> / C.G. Jung -- pt. 2. Jung and Hisamatsu : 5. Editors comments ; 6. Self and liberation: a dialogue between Carl G. Jung and Shin'ichi Hisamatsu ; 7. Jung's commentary on the conversation / C.G. Jung ; 8. Hismatsu's commentary on the conversation / S. Hisamatsu ; 9. What is the true self? A discussion / K. Sato, H. Kataoka, R. DeMartino, M. Abe, H. Kwai ; 10. The self in Jung and Zen / Masao Abe -- pt. 3. On Jungian thought and Buddhism : 11. Zen Buddhism, Freud, and Jung / Thomas P. Kasulis ; 12. Jung, Eastern religion, and the language of imagination / Peter Bishop ; 13. Self-realization in the Ten Oxherding Pictures / Mokusen Miyuki ; 14. The Bodhisattva as metaphor to Jung's concept of self / James D. Thomas ; 15. Mechanisms of self-deception and true awareness / Frederick J. Streng ; 16. Jung's commentary on the <i>Amitāyus Dhyāna Sūtra</i> / Harold Coward ; 17. Jung's commentary on <i>The Tibetan Book of the Dead</i> / Harold Coward ; 18. Tantric Buddhism and Jung: connections, similarities, and differences / Radmila Moacanin ; 19. Ḍākiṇī and Anima-- on Tantric deities and Jungian archetypes -- Notes on the contributors -- Index