{"id":594,"date":"2019-09-02T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=594"},"modified":"2019-09-02T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T14:33:11","slug":"new-book-is-buddhism-scientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/new-book-is-buddhism-scientific\/","title":{"rendered":"New book: Is Buddhism Scientific?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is another book, like The Science behind Jules Verne\u2019s Moon Novels<\/a> last year, that I wrote purely because I wanted to. There are plenty of books and websites on the subject of \u201cBuddhism and Science\u201d, but they say so many different things that I just ended up confused. When I finally succeeded in disentangling it to my own satisfaction, I decided to write it down before I forgot \u2013 and hopefully other readers will find the result useful too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is available as a paperback from Amazon.com<\/a>, Amazon UK<\/a> and all the other Amazons around the world, and in due course there\u2019ll be a Kindle edition too. Here is the back-cover blurb: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Buddhism Scientific? It sounds like an archetypal \u201cquestion to which the answer is no\u201d. Buddhism is a spiritual tradition aimed at improving the human condition, while science seeks to analyse and explain the physical world. How can the two have anything in common? A number of claims have been made \u2013 that Buddhism anticipates quantum theory, for example \u2013 that just don\u2019t stand up to close scrutiny. Yet there are striking parallels between the way science and Buddhism approach their very different subject matter \u2013 and in that sense, Buddhism really could be called \u201cscientific\u201d. This book takes a careful look at both sides of the argument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is another book, like The Science behind Jules Verne\u2019s Moon Novels last year, that I wrote purely because I wanted to. There are plenty of books and websites on the subject of \u201cBuddhism and Science\u201d, but they say so many different things that I just ended up confused. When I finally succeeded in disentangling … <\/p>\n

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