Klesas and Pretas: Therapy and Liberation in Buddhist Recovery from Addiction

This article offers an analysis of Buddhist approaches to addiction recovery in the terms of some of the key debates in addiction/recovery studies. Buddhist recovery teachings are analysed for the extent to which they embody models of addiction which construe the problem as a disease, as a moral pro...

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Main Author: Dossett, Wendy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2019]
In: Implicit religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 215-242
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Buddhism / Addiction therapy / Addiction / Theory / Convalescence
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BL Buddhism
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Addiction
B therapeutization
B Soteriology
B Recovery
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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