HKU Moodle

Course Description: (6 credits)

Buddhist teachings entirely focus on the analysis of human life and offer a unique way to solve life’s problems and achieve happiness. Just as the Buddha said, he taught only one thing: suffering and its cessation. In this course, the basic Buddhist teachings of dependent arising, the relationship of mind and body, human behaviours and their consequences, the human condition and its causes, free will and moral responsibility, the Buddhist concept of critical thinking, the Buddhist management of emotion, the concept of happiness, and the Buddhist way to achieve happiness etc. will be investigated on the basis of the earliest Buddhist literatures namely the Pali Nikayas and Chinese Agamas. Assessment: 100% coursework.