사별가족상담을 위한 불교적 방안 연구

Abstract

This dissertation was planed to create a model of the Buddhist Grief-Counselling for the Bereaved[佛敎的 死別家族相談]. With the purpose of the aim, basically I've needed to understand the current situation on the Study of Death[生死學] from the other countries and Korea. First of all, I've studied the various viewpoints of life and death from their philosophy or religions in the west and the east, from the ancient times up to now. In the 2nd chapter, I've reviewed the theories about spiritual viewpoint from Platonism, Judaism, Christianism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism to modern philosophy. I've considered of the thoughts on the monism with the dualism about the human beings in comparison. I've got the conclusion, which both of the two thoughts are not enough to care for the bereaved families. The theories are very contradictory. So many scholars have tried to solve the problems of being or dying, death, and after death by the ways of these or those theories; the monism with bodily, the monism with spiritual, the dualism with body and spirit. Otherwise, as you know, the historical Buddha explained the big question of the human being as the dharma of Cause and Effect and the theory of Karma. On his teaching, there are not existed an immortal soul for the sentient-beings, because we are here led by our own the previous karma, and also will go to die with the karma you've made for this life. As a result, I guess, lots of scholars, philosophers and religious practitioners arrived one of the conclusion unanimously, that the best way to solve the big question is to try to be your best during the present life, now and here. In the 3rd chapter, I've considered of the current situations on the Education of Death and the Education of Grief from the other countries since the 1960. In the 4th chapter, I've suggested an idea of the Buddhist Grief-Counselling for the Bereaved by using the ways of buddhist meditation and the teachings.