Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (repost)
Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed
University Of Chicago Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0226493121 | 278 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
University Of Chicago Press | 2008 | ISBN: 0226493121 | 278 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB
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.