Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2007
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ASIA 250 001 (CRN: 21056)
MEDITATION, MYSTICISM & MAGIC
Long Title: MEDITATION, MYSTICISM, AND MAGIC
Department: Asian Studies
Instructors:
Meeting: 2:00PM - 5:00PM W (8-JAN-2007 - 25-APR-2007)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 30
Section Enrolled: 3
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 30
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 28
Enrollment data as of: 16-MAY-2024 11:46PM
Description: The course moves between Buddhist religious and Western psychological literature, analyzing these as models of human development, as guides to a meditative life or critiques of it, and above all as expressions of deeply rooted cultural proclivities. Reading Freud, Khakar, Milarepa, Norbu, Obeyesekere, Sutric and Tantric literature, Taylor and Wangyal. Cross-list: RELI 250.