Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved

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

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781614290520
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614290636
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• JAPAN: Challenges of Caring for the Aging and Dying
• JAPAN: Tear Down the Wall: Bridging the Premortem and Postmortem Worlds in Medical and Spiritual Care
• JAPAN: “True Regard”: Shifting to the Patient’s Standpoint of Suffering in a Buddhist Hospital
• JAPAN: The Vihara Movement: Buddhist Chaplaincy and Social Welfare
• USA/JAPAN: One Dies as One Lives: The Importance of Developing Pastoral Care Services and Religious Education
• TAIWAN: The Development of Indigenous Hospice Care and Clinical Buddhism
• THAILAND: The Seven Factors of a Peaceful Death: A Theravada Buddhist Approach to Dying
• CAMBODIA: Actualizing Understanding: Compassion, AIDS, Death, and Dying among the Poor
• UNITED KINGDOM: The Birth ofa New Culture of Active Dying: The Role of Buddhism in Practices and Attitudes Toward Death
• GERMANY: Buddhist Influences on the Scientific, Medical, and Spiritual Cultures of Caring for the Dying
• USA: Being with Dying: The Upaya Institute Contemplative End-of-Life Training Program
• USA: Zen Approaches to Terminal Care and Buddhist Chaplaincy Training
• USA: “Listening to the Dharma”: Integrating Buddhism into a Multifaith Health Care Environment
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors