CBS@FGU hosted the third panel in the cross-disciplinary colloquia on Buddhism and Psychology, on the evening of December 1st at the Buddhist Studies Department, featuring Buddhist Studies Prof. Guo Chaoshun and Psychology Prof. Huang Guozhang. Prof. Huang began by summarising the perspective of Western psychology on the various influences that shape personality, such as genes, environment, learning, parenting, development, consciousness, subconscious, and other factors. Prof. Guo followed by presenting analogous concepts within Eastern philosophy. He further introduced the Buddhism thought of non-self. He went on to explain the similarities and the differences between Jung's theory of archetype and the Vijñaptimātra/Yogācāra theory of Ālāyavijñāna. Following both presentations, questions from the audience and subsequent discourses focused principally on personality theory and the views of the Buddhist Yogācāra tradition.
