A Buddhist View of Adult Learning in the Workplace

The problem and the solution. Buddhism is a way of life prac-ticed by more than 500 million people.The continued globalization of work and the expanding economic power and influence of Asian nations ensures that the beliefs, goals, practices, and traditions of Buddhism will take on increasing importance to business, education, and human resource development (HRD) professionals in every part of the world. Buddhism, like most worldviews, is not homogeneous and has many variations. Indeed, this adaptability is one of the hall-marks of Buddhism and is a major contributing factor to its spread and applicability around the world. The differences in these approaches are not as relevant to this article as are their commonalities in foun-dational beliefs, goals, and methods. Thus, this article presents a Buddhist view of learning, not the Buddhist view