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Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism

Author : Francisca Cho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317435419
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism written by Francisca Cho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a Buddhist perspective on the conflict between religion and science in contemporary western society. Examining Buddhist history, authors Francisca Cho and Richard K. Squier offer a comparative analysis of Buddhist and western scientific epistemologies that transcends the limitations of non-Buddhist approaches to the subject of religion and science. The book is appropriate for undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in comparative religion or in the intersection of religion and science and Buddhist Studies.

Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism

Author : Francisca Cho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317435427
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism written by Francisca Cho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a Buddhist perspective on the conflict between religion and science in contemporary western society. Examining Buddhist history, authors Francisca Cho and Richard K. Squier offer a comparative analysis of Buddhist and western scientific epistemologies that transcends the limitations of non-Buddhist approaches to the subject of religion and science. The book is appropriate for undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers interested in comparative religion or in the intersection of religion and science and Buddhist Studies.

Buddhism and Its Relation to Religion and Science

Author : R. G. de S. Wettimuny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789971839505
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism and Its Relation to Religion and Science written by R. G. de S. Wettimuny and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Mirror is for Reflection

Author : Jake H. Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190499761
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book A Mirror is for Reflection written by Jake H. Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a rich and accessible introduction to contemporary research on Buddhist ethical thought. It includes contributions of many of the leading scholars in this field, on topics including the nature of Buddhist ethics, karma and rebirth, mindfulness, narrative, intention, free will, politics, anger, and equanimity.

Reflections in the Mirror of Religion

Author : Ninian Smart
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections in the Mirror of Religion written by Ninian Smart and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays selected for this volume represent Professor Ninian Smart's most contemporary reflections on major issues the field of religious studies. Beginning with investigations into the possibility of a science of religion, Professor Smart then goes on to consider how a sociology of religious knowledge can be developed, focusing in particular on Asian cultures and traditions. Finally he analyses the growth of religious studies as an academic field, a field his own work has helped to shape in a definitive way.

Reflecting Mirrors

Author : Imre Hamar
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447055093
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Reflecting Mirrors written by Imre Hamar and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Huayan school of East Asian Buddhism in a Western language. This school, which received its name from the Chinese translation of the important Mahayana scripture, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, flourished in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907) and spread to Korea and Japan as well. The reader gains an insight into the development of Huayan Buddhism: The compilation of its base text, the Buddhavatam sakasutra, the establishment of Huayan tradition as a special form of East Asian Buddhism and its visual representations. The book consists of five chapters: 1. State of Field, 2. The Buddhavatam. sakasutra, 3. Huayan in China, 4. Hwaom/Kegon in Korea and Japan, and 5. Huayan/Hwaom/Kegon Art. The following scholars contributed to this volume: Aramaki Noritoshi, Jana Benicka, Choe Yeonshik, Bernard Faure, Frederic Girard, Imre Hamar, Huang Yi-hsun, Ishii Kosei, Kimura Kiyotaka, Charles Muller, Jan Nattier, Otake Susumu, Joerg Plassen, Wei Daoru, Dorothy Wong, Zhu Qingzhi. Included are bibliographies of secondary sources on Huayan Buddhism in Western languages, Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems

Author : Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-nyi-ma (Thuʼu-bkwan III)
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861714644
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems written by Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-nyi-ma (Thuʼu-bkwan III) and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems by Thuken Losang Chökyi Nyima (1737-1802) is probably the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in pre-modern Tibet. Thuken was a cosmopolitan Buddhist monk from Amdo, Mongol by heritage, Tibetan in education, and equally comfortable in a central Tibetan monastery or at the imperial court in Beijing. Like most texts on philosophical systems, his Crystal Mirror covers the major schools of India, both non-Buddhist and Buddhist, but then goes on to discuss in detail the entire range of Tibetan traditions as well, with separate chapters on the Nyingma, Kadam, Kagyü, Shijé, Sakya, Jonang, Geluk, and Bön. Not resting there, Thuken goes on to describe the major traditions of China-Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist-as well as those of Mongolia, Khotan, and Shambhala. The Crystal Mirror is unusual, too, in its concern not just to describe and analyze doctrines, but to trace the historical development of the various traditions. All this makes the Crystal Mirror an eloquent, erudite, and informative textbook on the religious history and philosophical systems of an array of Asian cultures-and provides evidence that serious and sympathetic study of the history of religions has not been a monopoly of Western scholarship.

Science And Buddhism: Dialogues

Author : Tsutomu (Jixin) Kambe
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811258538
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Science And Buddhism: Dialogues written by Tsutomu (Jixin) Kambe and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Origin of Life on Earth is explored by modern sciences based both on experimental and observational methods, a new biological principle is adopted in addition to the principles of physics and chemistry. The biosphere is explained by the biodiversity and coexistence amongst countlessly different species reminding us of the Buddha Nature. The book verifies the existence of a platform — dialogues between science and Buddhism — to contemplate these modern aspects of life.In the 2nd century BCE, western Greek philosophy encountered eastern Indian Buddhist philosophy, as captured in a Buddhist text, the Milindapanha (Questions of Milinda), resulting in the Greco-Buddhism, the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism. Some two thousand years later, in the modern era, the sciences have revolutionized ancient philosophies, as Buddhism by the philosophy of Emptiness, stimulating various new schools.Many scientists have written about science, and many Buddhists have explained Buddhism, but an in-depth analysis of both fields may be rare. The book reports on a recent project commemorating the founder and Indian monk of Zen Buddhism Bodhidharma. Imagine a Buddhist Eagle, soaring in the sky of Emptiness with both wings spreading out — one of Wisdom and another of Great Compassion — on all countlessly-many sentient beings.

The Buddha in Your Mirror

Author : Woody Hochswender
Publisher : Middleway Press
ISBN 13 : 1938252012
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Buddha in Your Mirror written by Woody Hochswender and published by Middleway Press. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the notion that “happiness can found within oneself” has recently become popular, Buddhism has taught for thousands of years that every person is a Buddha, or enlightened being, and has the potential for true and lasting happiness. Through real-life examples, the authors explain how adopting this outlook has positive effects on one's health, relationships, and career, and gives new insights into world environmental concerns, peace issues, and other major social problems.

Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

Author : Geoffrey Samuel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136766472
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a variety of perspectives, and includes both studies of these practices in Asian and Western contexts. The book discusses how subtle-body practices assume a quasi-material level of human existence that is intermediate between conventional concepts of body and mind. Often, this level is conceived of in terms of an invisible structure of channels, associated with the human body, through which flows of quasi-material substance take place. Contributors look at how subtle-body concepts form the basic explanatory structure for a wide range of practices. These include forms of healing, modes of exercise and martial arts as well as religious practices aimed at the refinement and transformation of the human mindbody complex. By highlighting how subtle-body practices of many kinds have been introduced into Western societies in recent years, the book explores the possibilities for new models of understanding which these concepts open up. It is a useful contribution to studies on Asian Religion and Philosophy.

Buddhism & Science

Author : B. Alan Wallace
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120820258
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Buddhism & Science written by B. Alan Wallace and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2004 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting its wide variety of topics, Buddhism and science is comprised of three sections. The first presents two historical overviews of the engagements between Buddhism and modern science or rather how Buddhism and modern science have definced, rivaled and complemented one another. The second describes the ways Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other, the third address point of intersection between Buddhsim and the physical sciences. On the broadest level this work illuminates how different ways of exploring the nature of human identity the mind, and the universe at large can enrich and enlighten one another.

Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism

Author : C. Mackenzie Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030373401
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Asian Religious Responses to Darwinism written by C. Mackenzie Brown and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together diverse Asian religious perspectives to address critical issues in the encounter between tradition and modern western evolutionary thought. Such thought encompasses the biological theories of Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Earnest Haeckel, Thomas Huxley, and later “neo-Darwinians,” as well as the more sociological evolutionary theories of thinkers such as Herbert Spencer, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Henri Bergson. The essays in this volume cover responses from Hindu, Jain, Buddhist (Chinese, Japanese, and Indo-Tibetan), Confucian, Daoist, and Muslim traditions. These responses come from the decades immediately after publication of The Origin of Species up to the present, with attention being paid to earlier perspectives and teachings within a tradition that have affected responses to Darwinism and western evolutionary thought in general. The book focuses on three critical issues: the struggle for survival and the moral implications read into it; genetic variation and its seeming randomness as related to the problems of meaning and purpose; and the nature of humankind and human exceptionalism. Each essay deals with one or more of the three issues within the context of a specific tradition.

Miracles: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion

Author : Karen R. Zwier
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031148657
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Miracles: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy of Religion written by Karen R. Zwier and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a comparative philosophical investigation into a particular concept from a variety of angles—in this case, the concept of “miracle.” The text covers deeply philosophical questions around the miracle, with a multiplicity of answers. Each chapter brings its own focus to this multifaceted effort. The volume rejects the primarily western focus that typically dominates philosophy of religion and is filled with particular examples of miracle narratives, community responses, and polemical scenarios across widely varying religious contexts and historical periods. Some of these examples defy religious categorization, and some papers challenge the applicability of the concept “miracle,” which is of western and monotheistic origin. By examining miracles thru a wide comparative context, this text presents a range of descriptive content and analysis, with attention to the audience, to the subjective experiences being communicated, and to the flavor of the narratives that come to surround miracles. This book appeals to students and researchers working in philosophy of religion and science, as well those in comparative religion. It represents, in written form, some of the perspectives and dialogue achieved in The Comparison Project’s 2017–2019 lecture series on miracles. The Comparison Project is an enterprise in comparing a variety of religious voices, allowing them to stand in dialogue.

Reflections in a Mirror

Author : Charlie Singer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462046576
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Reflections in a Mirror written by Charlie Singer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distillation of important doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism includes a presentation of the four reflections that change the mind, bodhichitta, emptiness, the nature of mind, and Dzogchen. Also explores the nature of human embodiment and the apparitional nature of the world, with Buddha-nature as the common thread. A thought-provoking study. This certainly is in the tradition of the wise ones." From the Foreword by Ven. Lama Pema Wangdak

Secularizing Buddhism

Author : Sarah Shaw
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834843722
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Secularizing Buddhism written by Sarah Shaw and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond. How do secular values impact Buddhism in the modern world? What versions of Buddhism are being transmitted to the West? Is it possible to know whether an interpretation of the Buddha’s words is correct? In this new essay collection, opposing ideas that often define Buddhist communities—secular versus religious, modern versus traditional, Western versus Eastern—are unpacked and critically examined. These reflections by contemporary scholars and practitioners reveal the dynamic process of reinterpreting and reimagining Buddhism in secular contexts, from the mindfulness movement to Buddhist shrine displays in museums, to whether rebirth is an essential belief. This collection explores a wide range of modern understandings of Buddhism—whether it is considered a religion, philosophy, or lifestyle choice—and questions if secular Buddhism is purely a Western invention, offering a timely contribution to an ever-evolving discussion. Contributors include Bhikkhu Bodhi, Kate Crosby, Gil Fronsdal, Kathleen Gregory, Funie Hsu, Roger R. Jackson, Charles B. Jones, David L. McMahan, Richard K. Payne, Ron Purser, Sarah Shaw, Philippe Turenne, and Pamela D. Winfield.

Seeing Like the Buddha

Author : Francisca Cho
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438464401
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Like the Buddha written by Francisca Cho and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers film as a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice. In this important new contribution to Buddhist studies and Buddhist film criticism, Francisca Cho argues that films can do more than simply convey information about Buddhism. Films themselves can become a form of Buddhist ritual and contemplative practice that enables the viewer not only to see the Buddha, but to see like the Buddha. Drawing upon her extensive knowledge of both Buddhism and film studies, Cho examines the aesthetic vision of several Asian and Western films that explicitly or implicitly embody Buddhist teachings about karma, emptiness, illusion, and overcoming duality. Her wide-ranging analysis includes Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring (South Korea, 2003), Nang Nak (Thailand, 1999), Rashomon (Japan, 1950), Maborosi (Japan, 1995), and the films of American Terrence Malick. Francisca Cho is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at Georgetown University. Her books include Religion and Science in the Mirror of Buddhism (written with Richard K. Squier) and Embracing Illusion: Truth and Fiction in The Dream of the Nine Clouds, also published by SUNY Press.

God, Science, and the Buddha

Author : Wijeratne Weerakkody
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557506824
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book God, Science, and the Buddha written by Wijeratne Weerakkody and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in this book "God, Science, and the Buddha" my genuine effort is to present the reader with some insight into the existence of life and matter within the concept of universal space-time in order to understand how and why mind is declared by the Buddha as the forerunner of all existence in eternity and infinity of the concept of space-time.Learning to understand the culmination of all the energies contained within the concept of space-time would unify theology, science and the nature in the noble name of God without division into mind based diverse theological images. The rare opportunity in human form of life is too precious to be neglected and wasted within the short span of existence in this sensual realm of life. In order to be comfortable with this understanding the author seeks to discuss scientific revelations in cosmology, physics, and physiology along with theology, religions, philosophy and Buddhism, which explains the existence of the nature in its true form.