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	Buddhism and science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Buddhism and science are generally compatible with each other, especially compared to the conflict between science and the Abrahamic religions.
		Buddhism itself, being generally neutral on the subject of the supernatural, is open to scientific discoveries.
		Buddhism is a combination of both speculative and scientific philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Buddhism_and_science (1044 words)

	Buddhism as the Foundation of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Science has advanced so far-reaching that it seems to be approaching the limits of the physical universe and, as it approaches the limits of that world, it is turning to the mysteries of the mind.
		In addition to the new science and the classical science, or the new physics and the classical physics, we have one science for the specialists and one for the average man. Many of the concepts spoken of in science are completely beyond the ability of the average man to visualize.
		Science is not yet able to provide an explanation of the totality of life and the world, it is still engaged in the process of collecting and verifying pieces of data.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /buddhism_as_the_foundation_of_sc.htm (20578 words)

	Buddhism and Science
		Science, for people at the turn of the century, stood for absolute, fixed truths and principles that held good forever; it embraced and explained an unchanging reality, or at least a reality that was changing according to constant and predictable laws.
		Buddhism is being 'Westernized' to be seen as a teaching that can mesh with both the good life and mitigate the stress of the faith/reason divide.
		Science absolutely cannot bring true and ultimate happiness to people, neither spiritually nor materially.” This is strong criticism that portrays science as a discipline limited to relative truths, and as an unsatisfactory way of life.
	online.sfsu.edu /~rone/Buddhism/VerhoevenBuddhismScience.htm (7681 words)

	Buddhism Meets Western Science
		Buddhism does not propose beliefs of the supernatural or transcendent, but offers a practice: the cultivation of cognitive, emotional, and physical practices to bring about change.
		Three realizations characterize the current generation of cognitive science: the fundamental and inescapable importance of embodiment, the importance of emotion, and the extent and importance of nonconscious processes; all must be seen as contextualized and interdependent.
		Buddhism, based as it is upon experience and a psychological understanding of body and mind, is one of the oldest systems of thought yet most in tune with contemporary neuroscience and with other strands of contemporary discourse.
	www.parkridgecenter.org /Page483.html (1325 words)

	Buddhism and Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Buddhism goes beyond modern science in its acceptance of a wider field of knowledge than is allowed by the scientific mind.
		The truth discovered by science is relative and subject to changes, while that found by the Buddha is final and absolute: the Truth of Dharma does not change according to time and space.
		In contrast, Buddhism is inwardly directed and is concerned with the inner development of man. On the lower level, Buddhism teaches the individual how to adjust and cope with events and circumstances of daily life.
	www.serve.com /cmtan/buddhism/Misc/buddsc1.html (410 words)

	Buddhism and Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The science that evolved on the basis of Cartesian bifurcation was confined to material objects within the limits of perception of human sensory organs which are unable to perceive anything that extended beyond three spatial dimensions.
		Modern twentieth century science that developed after transcending the dimensional barrier by twentieth century scientists such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger, Louis de Broglie, Paul Dirac, Werner Heisenberg, Richard Feynman, Murray Gellman, Sir Arthur Eddington and Stephen Hawkin is based on the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and uncertainty principle.
		Twentieth century transcended science enables us to scientifically confirm that such concepts as impermanence, rebirth, telepathy and selflessness taught by the Buddha are true phenomena of nature which are beyond three spatial dimentions and therefore beyond classical science.
	www.beyondthenet.net /misc/science2.htm (1693 words)

	Catholicism, Calvinism, Evangelism, Liberal Christianity and Buddhism
		Nowadays there are many positive and fruitful interactions taking place between Christianity and Buddhism, some of these are listed in the Resources section at the end of this article.
		Buddhism not only accepts evolution but actually requires it, as all things are seen as being transient with no permanent essence.
		Crossing the Threshold of Hope refers to Buddhism as 'negative soteriology' (Presumably the Boddhisattva ideal is negative whereas Extra ecclesiam nulla salus is positive!).
	website.lineone.net /~kwelos/Christian.htm (2864 words)

	Buddhism and Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Science however speculates on the existence of a material substance with its own nature, and postulates that all phenomenon may be reduced to a movement of this material substance (Atomism).
		Although this is the case in what may be termed as Classical science; the search for a fundamental substance has been elusive, and speculative theories on the nature of sub-atomic phenomenon speak of resonances rather than substances (Michio Kaku, 1996).
		In a Kuhnian sense western psychology can be classified as an immature science, with the existence of several contradictory pardigms (Jungian and Freudian as example), and as such there is much to be learnt from the theories and practice of Buddhist psychology.
	www.beyondthenet.net /misc/science1.htm (736 words)

	Buddhism & Science
		Buddhism made its first major impact on this culture around the turn of the last century, largely as a spin-off of the gathering of religions that took place in Chicago in 1893, the World's Parliament of Religions.
		Science much more than we are led to believe by its portrayal in textbooks, comes with its own set of pre-suppositions, of doctrines, and even heresies.
		Science for people at the turn of the century was absolute, fixed truths and principles that held good forever and described the total nature of an absolute and unchanging reality, or a reality that was changing according to very predictable laws.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism/VerhoevenBuddhismScience.htm (10353 words)

	B&science
		Not only are the findings of modern science in complete disagreement with traditional religious teaching with regard to the origins of our universe and mankind itself, but the source of knowledge is itself diametrically opposed in western religions and modern science.
		Modern science has launched a relentless and laudable investigation of every aspect of our world, including the structure and function of the brain, which brings us our only experience of that world, in our consciousness.
		It is not only compatible with science but indispensable that, in addition to all research upon the physiological functioning of the brain, we keep sight of the fact that ultimately it is our consciences which bring us our only knowledge of the world.
	www.jaysquare.com /ljohnson/b_science.html (506 words)

	Gerard Downey on reconciling Buddhism and science
		This history of science is a necessary condition for understanding the argument I wish to give to you concerning the non-relation of Buddhism and Science.
		I should say in passing that one of the most fascinating features of science's advance is to see the continual religious convictions of its main architects and then also to see, and perhaps to understand, why their religious convictions are either unknown or dismissed, as being irrelevant to their discoveries.
		Buddhism, at least from my reading of the popularizers of Buddhism in the West, is for the most part presented as part of a general flight from reason that seems to be a reaction to the complexity of contemporary civilization.
	www.lasalle.edu /~downey/won.htm (3955 words)

	Buddhist Society of Western Australia - Articles
		There are dangers in religion and science, but they can be used to help people to find a way through their lives in wise, compassionate and effective ways.
		Buddhism is so extensive that there are still many things that people in the West don't know about this great religion, especially from the old Scriptures, the suttas.
		I think that Buddhism is pure science, a science that doesn't stop 'out there', but also investigates the mind, the 'being', the 'ghost in the machine'.
	www.bswa.org /modules/icontent/index.php?page=105 (5750 words)

	Science and Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Buddhism is not a "revealed religion", that is it has not been revealed to humankind by a superhuman being.
		Buddhism does talk about " created things", but does not postulate that they are created by a superhuman creator.
		There are gods in Buddhism, but they are subject to the same laws of cause and effect and birth and death as the rest of us.
	www.horne28.freeserve.co.uk /budsci.htm (543 words)

	Buddhism: Inner Science? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He says that western philosophy collapsed when science claimed that everything is material.
		"Allowing science to think that everything that it does in relation to material things is reflecting true reality, that only the material counts, has crippled science from looking at the human being as a being with a psychological interior.
		The whole of Indian civilization was based on this inner science, which is the science of how to manage your mind, and your emotions, and your insight, and that determines the quality of that human being's life."
	www.pulseplanet.com /archive/Jul03/2971.html (316 words)

	All In The Mind 14/09/2003
		Matthieu Ricard this engagement with science is certainly no stranger to you as a Buddhist monk for more than 20 years either because you started of as molecular biologist with a PhD in cell genetics all those years ago.
		And it’s just because precisely because of the meeting in the last 10-15 years between cognitive scientists and meditators that suddenly it turns out that it’s just not like a 'nice relaxation' but is something that with a sustained effort really leads to permanent and profound change which is actually positive.
		We’re talking here about the convergence of Buddhism and science, which is not without its sceptics for sure but the Dalai Lama has said that "science on its own cannot prove Nirvana a real understanding of the nature of the mind can only be gained through meditation".
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/mind/s943369.htm (2795 words)

	Amazon.com: Buddhism and Science: Books: B. Alan Wallace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Consciousness at the Crossroads : Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brainscience and Buddhism by Dalai Lama
		Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality.
		The publication of a volume of essays on Buddhism and science presupposes that these two fields are commensurable and that the interface between Buddhist theories and practices and scientific theories and modes of inquiry can somehow be fruitful.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231123345?v=glance (1052 words)

	Tibetan Buddhism in Science Fiction
		When Buddhism is mentioned in science fiction literature, it is usually only in passing, and usually only in a generic sense.
		He had been interested in Buddhism and yoga lately, ever since he had been struck by the similarity in encephalographic patterns between his own tank states and those of yogis and Zen monks in meditation.
		Also, many references to Buddhism learned by one of the main characters while in Tibet, but it is not necessarily the same as actual Tibetan Buddhism, as this is an alternative history.
	www.adherents.com /lit/sf_tibbud.html (3585 words)

	Seed: Community - What Buddhism Offers Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It makes the Dalai Lama sound like a fool, which is too bad, because, and I'm speaking as a totally secular, bona-fide ex neuroscientist here, I think there's really something to his push to see how folks' religious experience could inform the study of the brain.
		What's also interesting is the idea that focused thought can be a tool in itself, and he's eager for scientists studying meditation to find out more about consciousness, instead of saying that thoughts and brains are sacred and untouchable.
		Tibetan Buddhism has it's own unique practices, but I've read that at the core, Buddhism really isn't a "religion" - Meditation can be practiced without worship, and the basic premise of Buddhism doesn't include any particular form of ritual or tribute, and doesn't try to explain what we are or where we came from.
	community.seedmagazine.com /comments.php?DiscussionID=9 (483 words)

	Buddhism and Modern Science
		Buddhism as a religion, philosophy, psychology, and a science
		Future directions in study of Buddhism and Science
		Buddhism is the most radical and civilized choice
	www.purifymind.com /BS.htm (1756 words)

	Buddhism and Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His Holiness the Dalai Lama has asked his monastery the Namgyal Monastery in Ithaca, NY to be a center for dialogue and collaboration between Buddhism and Science.
		Part of the response to that request is an all-day conference entitled "Comparative Conceptions of Causation: Buddhism and Science in Dialogue" at Cornell University on October 14, 2005.
		Causation is at the heart of both the theory and practice of Buddhism and it plays a pivotal role in both modern science and philosophy.
	www.lightlink.com /vic/buddhism_and_science.html (343 words)

	Buddhism and science updates
		From the mid 1970s to the late 1990s a cluster of irrationalist or anti-rationalist ideas became increasingly prevalent among academic sociologists in America, France and Britain.
		The mind cannot be an emergent property of the brain or any other physical system, since emergent properties and emergent phenomena are psychological in origin, and require the pre-existence of an observer's mind in order to become manifest.
		Updated to include a discussion of the limits of science in the study of mind.
	home.btclick.com /scimah/whatsnew.htm (283 words)

	Steve's No Direction Home Page
		In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality.
		By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview.
		A plush version His Noodly Self is for sale on ebay, with proceeds to benefit the Nationl Center for Science Education, tireless defenders of science from creationism.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100191/2005/11/12.html (1884 words)

	Quang Duc Homepage - Vietnamese - English Buddhist library
		The Role of Faith in Science and Buddhism.
		Science and Buddhism: A Meeting or a Parting?
		Buddhism and Science: Probing the Boundaries of Faith.
	quangduc.com /English/science (87 words)

	Buddhism and Science; Breaking New Ground; Edited by B. Alan Wallace
		Buddhism and Science; Breaking New Ground; Edited by B. Alan Wallace
		Wallace's volume is an important contribution to the emerging dialogue between Buddhism and science, and to the larger rapprochement between science and spirituality."
		Buddhism and Science: On the Nature of the Dialogue, by Josc Ignacio Cabezon
	www.columbia.edu /cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231123345.HTM (683 words)

	Buddhism and science at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Some modern scientific theories such as Rogerian pyschology, show strong parallels with Buddhist thought.
		See the works by William Walron on this topic.
		Russian President Vladimir Putin called Monday for union between Christians and Muslims at the start of a three-day international conference of religious leaders.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Buddhism_and_science.html (163 words)

	Buddhism: Inner Science? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Does western science have all the answers, or can it learn from other traditions?
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	www.pulseplanet.com /archive/Aug01/2469.html (339 words)

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