A Buddhist Psychological Exposition of Birth and Related Experiences

Résumé

The relationship between western and Buddhist psychologies has been investigated by Buddhist scholars and Psychologists in western and eastern parts of the world. This study also followed the similar academic journey of the field and thereby the attention was paid on Buddhist Psychological teachings on birth and related experiences in human life (Psychology of Birth) which is a sub subject area of child psychology in famous western psychology. The aims of the current study were to identify the Buddhist psychological teachings on so-called subject. The Sutta Pitaka of Three Volumes of Thēravāda Buddhism (Thripitaka) and few Aṭṭhakathā Books as primary sources and other Buddhist books as secondary sources were referred for data collection. Accordingly, the needed factors for conceiving, types of births, infertility cases, deaths of children and related experiences could be found through the study. Most importantly, Buddhist psychological therapies which are of prime importance in the application into the incidents of deaths of children could be noticed and they have the implications in counseling and psychotherapy.