Buddhism & science: a guide for the perplexed
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Main Author: Lopez, Donald S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
Series:Buddhism and modernity
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-254) and index
First there is a mountain -- Buddhism and the science of race -- Two Tibetans -- The science of Buddhism -- The meaning of meditation -- Conclusion: measuring the aura
Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both Buddhists and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed the compatibility of Buddhism and science. Their assertions have ranged from modest claims about the efficacy of meditation for mental health to grander declarations that the Buddha himself anticipated the theories of relativity, quantum physics and the big bang more than two millennia ago. In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is less interested in evaluating the accuracy of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly disparate modes of underst
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 264 pages)
ISBN:0226493245
9780226493244

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