著者

平岡 聡 Satoshi HIRAOKA 京都文教大学臨床心理学部臨床心理学科 Kyoto Bunkyo University Department of Clinical Psychology Faculty of Clinical Psychology

出版者

京都文教大学

雑誌

臨床心理学部研究報告 = Reports from the Faculty of Clinical Psychology, Kyoto Bunkyo University (ISSN:18843751)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.65-74, 2010-03-31

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This paper aims to elucidate some problems concerning discrimination and equality in Indian Buddhism from the standpoint of Buddhist karmic concepts. In understanding a religion, it is very important to clarify how the religion looks at human beings. We could easily surmise the idea of equality of human beings in Christianity, because they are thought to be equally created by God. Or we could guess the equality in Christianity from another aspect: human beings all share the original sin which was fi rst committed by Adam and Eve. Then what stance does Buddhism take concerning this problem? How has the view of humanity in Buddhism been infl uenced by karmic ideas (especially bad karma accumulated in one's past lives) corresponding to sin in Christianity? I will make clear the problem in Indian Buddhism and then consider the direction which Buddhism should take in the future.