| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Research Abstract |
his research dealt with the comparative studies concerning dying and terminal care between Christianity and Zen Buddhism on a philosophical and practical level. In Christianity the reality of death is acknowledged as part of the human condition. In the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:2) "There is a time to be born and a time to die". Eternal life and resurrection is the goal of dying, and therefore, in Christian view one is called to care for the dying and to face personally their own death in faith and hope. Zen Buddhism stresses the importance of death and understands death as a breaking apart of the material of which we are composed. In Buddhism death is merely a path to rebirth in another realm of a pure land. Nirvana is not a transcendental state apart from birth and death. Therefore, when one is facing with death, a caring person may help the person to achieve a peaceful state of mind.
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