Paper Title
Buddhist Moral Principles & Ethics for Health-Care Providers

Abstract
Despite Buddhism's long link with the healing arts, little consideration has been given to the ethical difficulties that arise from medical practise. A modest number of volumes are available to let us know about the problems and challenges that occur in medical practise. This study connects those challenges to insights from Buddhist philosophy that can be applied to improve the situation. There are analogies in the sutras that represent the Buddha as a doctor, Dharma understanding as treatment, and all lay people as patients. Holistic care should be prioritized because disease occurrence is intimately tied to one's psychological, physical, and spiritual wellness. The Buddhist medical literature establishes moral principles and ethics for health-care providers which are based on the Four NobleTruths: there is suffering (dukkha), the cause of suffering is clinging and ignorance (dukkha samudaya), and it is possible to eliminate suffering (dukkha nirodha) through the practise of the Eightfold Noble Path (dukkha nirodhamarga)(Keown, 1996)