Beginning in the nineteenth century and repeated to the current day, every one Buddhists and admirers of Buddhism be marked with proclaimed the compatibility of Buddhism and science. Their assertions be marked with ranged from shy claims about the effectiveness of meditation for mental health to grander declarations that the Buddha himself calculated the theories of relativity, quantum physics and the big clink elder than two millennia ago.
In Buddhism and Science, Donald S. Lopez Jr. is less inquisitive in evaluating the tidbit of such claims than in exploring how and why these two seemingly contrasting modes of understanding the inner and outer hole be marked with been so decisively simultaneous. Lopez opens with an autobiography of the park and fall of Pony Meru, the excellent peak that stands at the average of the flat earth of Buddhist cosmography-and which was interpreted over afterward it proved unbecoming with modern geography. From near, he analyzes the way in which Buddhist concepts of spiritual lords and ladies were enlisted to buttress the legendary science of band in the nineteenth century. Bringing the story to the current, Lopez explores the Dalai Lama's pizzazz in arithmetical discoveries, as well as the implications of campaign on meditation for neuroscience.
