Vulnerability, Compassion, and Ethical Responsibility: A Buddhist Perspective on the Phenomenology of Illness and Health

Ellen Ying ZHANG

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8736-9_5

Vulnerability, Compassion, and Ethical Responsibility: A Buddhist Perspective on the Phenomenology of Illness and Health

Ellen Ying ZHANG^*

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Centre for Applied Ethics

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Abstract

Perhaps no religion like Buddhism Buddhism speaks explicitly of the human experience of bodily/mentally vulnerability. According to the Buddhist tradition, the story of the young prince Siddhartha and his decision of embarking on the journey of enlightenment Enlightenment\t See Liberation is closely related to his personal experience of seeing the “four passing signs”, three of which are about the experience of human physical vulnerability: aging, sickness, and death.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics
Editors	Joseph Tham, Alberto Garcia, Gonzalo Miranda
Publisher	Springer, Dordrecht
Pages	41-52
Number of pages	12
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9789401787369
ISBN (Print)	9789401787352, 9789402400526
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8736-9_5
Publication status	Published - 8 Jul 2014

Publication series

Name	Advancing Global Bioethics
Volume	2
ISSN (Print)	2212-652X
ISSN (Electronic)	2212-6538

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
Health(social science)
Health Policy

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Human Vulnerability
Meditative Practice
Passing Sign
Phenomenal Character
Virtue Ethic

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ZHANG, E. Y. (2014). Vulnerability, Compassion, and Ethical Responsibility: A Buddhist Perspective on the Phenomenology of Illness and Health. In J. Tham, A. Garcia, & G. Miranda (Eds.), Religious Perspectives on Human Vulnerability in Bioethics (1st ed., pp. 41-52). (Advancing Global Bioethics; Vol. 2). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8736-9_5

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