LEADER 03556nam 2200649 450 001 9910798077603321 005 20230124193246.0 010 $a0-231-53958-4 024 7 $a10.7312/hamm17034 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459494 035 $a(EBL)2127369 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001523581 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12505016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001523581 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11467812 035 $a(PQKB)11768745 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001280204 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2127369 035 $a(DE-B1597)458347 035 $a(OCoLC)922006794 035 $a(OCoLC)979739687 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231539586 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2127369 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11086486 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL815100 035 $a(OCoLC)916446260 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459494 100 $a20150824h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe science of Chinese Buddhism $eearly twentieth-century engagements /$fErik J. Hammerstrom ; cover design, Noah Arlow 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 225 1 $aSheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-17034-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Historical Context --$t2. Views on the Physical Universe --$t3. Empiricism and Means of Verification --$t4. The Nature of Mind --$t5. Ethics, Science, and Society --$t6. Science and Self-Cultivation --$tEpilogue --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aKexue, or science, captured the Chinese imagination in the early twentieth century, promising new knowledge about the world and a dynamic path to prosperity. Chinese Buddhists embraced scientific language and ideas to carve out a place for their religion within a rapidly modernizing society. Examining dozens of previously unstudied writings from the Chinese Buddhist press, this book maps Buddhists' efforts to rethink their traditions through science in the initial decades of the twentieth century. Buddhists believed science offered an exciting, alternative route to knowledge grounded in empirical thought, much like their own. They encouraged young scholars to study subatomic and relativistic physics while still maintaining Buddhism's vital illumination of human nature and its crucial support of an ethical system rooted in radical egalitarianism. Showcasing the rich and progressive steps Chinese religious scholars took in adapting to science's rising authority, this volume offers a key perspective on how a major Eastern power transitioned to modernity in the twentieth century and how its intellectuals anticipated many of the ideas debated by scholars of science and Buddhism today. 410 0$aSheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies. 606 $aBuddhism and science$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aChina$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aBuddhism and science$xHistory 676 $a294.3/3650951 700 $aHammerstrom$b Erik J.$01534163 702 $aArlow$b Noah 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798077603321 996 $aThe science of Chinese Buddhism$93781475 997 $aUNINA