The science of Chinese Buddhism : early twentieth-century engagements /
Kexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists particularly embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing soc...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies.
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The historical context
- Views on the physical universe
- Empiricism and the means for verification
- The nature of mind
- Ethics, science, and society
- Science and self-cultivation.