03556nam 2200649 450 991079807760332120230124193246.00-231-53958-410.7312/hamm17034(CKB)3710000000459494(EBL)2127369(SSID)ssj0001523581(PQKBManifestationID)12505016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001523581(PQKBWorkID)11467812(PQKB)11768745(StDuBDS)EDZ0001280204(MiAaPQ)EBC2127369(DE-B1597)458347(OCoLC)922006794(OCoLC)979739687(DE-B1597)9780231539586(Au-PeEL)EBL2127369(CaPaEBR)ebr11086486(CaONFJC)MIL815100(OCoLC)916446260(EXLCZ)99371000000045949420150824h20152015 uy 0engur|nu---|u|||txtccrThe science of Chinese Buddhism early twentieth-century engagements /Erik J. Hammerstrom ; cover design, Noah ArlowNew York, [New York] :Columbia University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (260 p.)Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-231-17034-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --1. The Historical Context --2. Views on the Physical Universe --3. Empiricism and Means of Verification --4. The Nature of Mind --5. Ethics, Science, and Society --6. Science and Self-Cultivation --Epilogue --Notes --Glossary --Bibliography --IndexKexue, 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 embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society. Examining dozens of previously unstudied writings from the Chinese Buddhist press, this book maps Buddhists' efforts to rethink their traditions through science in the initial decades of the twentieth century. Buddhists believed science offered an exciting, alternative route to knowledge grounded in empirical thought, much like their own. They encouraged young scholars to study subatomic and relativistic physics while still maintaining Buddhism's vital illumination of human nature and its crucial support of an ethical system rooted in radical egalitarianism. Showcasing the rich and progressive steps Chinese religious scholars took in adapting to science's rising authority, this volume offers a key perspective on how a major Eastern power transitioned to modernity in the twentieth century and how its intellectuals anticipated many of the ideas debated by scholars of science and Buddhism today.Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies.Buddhism and scienceChinaHistory20th centuryChinaIntellectual life20th centuryBuddhism and scienceHistory294.3/3650951Hammerstrom Erik J.1534163Arlow NoahMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798077603321The science of Chinese Buddhism3781475UNINA