This essay argues that the prospect of health and well-being from a Buddhist perspective must take into account an understanding of religiosity as a process of becoming, a culturally and contextually defined praxis of what and who it is we are and would like to become. It is in this process of becoming that a space of healing is made possible. It is not simply that Buddhist temple space is ‘good’ in some sort of clinical manner, but rather that it is active in its will to achieve a space of becoming healthy and whole
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Introduction 471 Health Defined 472 Health Refined 473 Historical Overview 474 Negotiating Sacrality 476 Sacred Space 476 Conclusion: Levels of Spatiality 478 References 478
