Promoting Health and Happiness: A Buddhist’s Perspective.

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dc.contributor.authorLhamo, Namgay
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-09T04:46:00Z
dc.date.available2016-09-09T04:46:00Z
dc.date.issued2015-11
dc.description.abstractBhutan is known to the rest of the world as the country of ‘Gross National Happiness' (GNH). His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the fourth Druk Gyalpo coined this term with farsighted vision of building an economy that would not only enable the country to preserve its unique culture but also ensure everlasting peace, happiness and wellbeing of His people. The Bhutanese are blessed with all the conditions and physical facilities that are required for happiness: fresh air, clean water, good governance, free education and health care, and many others. However, there is no evidence to prove that all Bhutanese are enjoying true inner happiness deep within. This is because happiness is not something that can be found outside of usand moreover, happiness derived from external sources is only temporary and fleeting. True happiness is within our mind, which can only be achieved by skillfully observing our inner world. A number of recent studies have identified happiness as an important factor that determines the state of health and wellbeing. Further, happy people not only lived longer but were also found to be more sociable, tolerant, helpful, loving and forgiving than unhappy people. Happiness is something that every human being wants and in fact, we spend our entire life blindly chasing after it, only to land up in sorrow. Perhaps the best way to begin our journey in search of happiness is by drawing inspiration from the Buddhist teachings of Phar-chin drug, or the sixparamitas, meaning the six invaluable qualities of an ideal human being. This paper attempts to elucidate how one can achieve true, inner and lasting happiness by infusing the virtues of pharchin drug into our daily lifeen_US
dc.identifier.citationLhamo Namgay. Promoting Health and Happiness: A Buddhist’s Perspective. Men-jong So-rig Journals. 2015 Nov; 7(1): I.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/177083
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.nitm.edu.bt/images/Articles/Journals/Eng/2015/Promoting%20Health%20and%20Happiness.pdfen_US
dc.subjectHappinessen_US
dc.subjecthealthen_US
dc.subjectphar-chin drugen_US
dc.subjectparamitaen_US
dc.subjectJin-paen_US
dc.subjectTshul-thrimen_US
dc.subjectZod-paen_US
dc.subjectTson-druen_US
dc.subjectSam-tenen_US
dc.subjectShe-raben_US
dc.titlePromoting Health and Happiness: A Buddhist’s Perspective.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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