Although hailed in Victorian Europe for its rejection of the Indian caste system and its championing of the spiritual potential of all social classes, Buddhism also played a role in the science of race during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.In a debate with a Methodist minister in 1873, a Sri Lankan monk argued that such a mountain does exist, despite the fact that it does not appear on European maps. It was on the summit of this mountain that the Buddha set forth his system of metaphysics. The traditional Buddhist cosmography describes Mount Meru, a vast mountain located to the north of our continent.One of the first such encounters occurred in 1552, when the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier criticized the Japanese for not knowing that the sun orbits the earth. Claims for (and against) the compatibility of Buddhism and science originated in the encounter between Buddhists and Christian missionaries to Asia.And since the time when Einstein didn’t say this, intimations of deep connections between Buddhism and science have continued, right up until today. Yet something compelled someone to concoct this statement and attribute it to Einstein, the Buddha of the Modern Age. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism.” Einstein appears to have occasionally made passing references to the Buddha in conversation. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Although the statement is widely attributed to him, Albert Einstein never said, ”The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion.distills six items of interest from from his book Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed: Six Episodes in Buddhism and Science Donald S. ”At a time when glib enthusiasts for Buddhism and science claim vindication through the other, Lopez is the wise historically sensitive voice who asks us to reflect on which science, which Buddhism we are talking about.”-Owen Flanagan, Duke University The science and religion field would be vastly enriched by more studies such as this.”-Peter Harrison, University of Oxford Lopez not only gives an account of the diverse claims made for the scientific credibility of Buddhism, but in the process offers deep insights into the complex relations among science, religion, and Western modernity. ”This fascinating book provides a new way of understanding the various discussions of Buddhism and science that have taken place over the past 150 years.
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