The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism

Originally published in 1979, The Dynamic Psychology of Early Buddhism was a psychologist’s attempt to understand what the Buddha meant by “dependent origination” ( paticcasumappāda , sometimes translated as “causality”). Those who are familiar with Theravada Buddhism have met the famous series of twelve links in the chain of causation ( nidanas ) of which each is said to be the condition of the next one, and the background of this book is exactly the challenging, teasing incomprehensibility of