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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Sheng Yen series in Chinese Buddhist studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.