ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the role of sati in Buddhist soteriology from a psychological perspective. As Griffiths (1983: 55) says, for both Western Buddhologists and Buddhist apologists it has become a truism that methods of transforming the cognitive, perceptual and affective experience of the practitioner are of central importance to Buddhist soteriology. I shall start with an investigation of the relationship between sati and saññA, one of the five aggregates (khandha). Then I will explore how sati conduces to liberation through the transformation of cognition and emotion, which are both linked with saññA.
