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| An All-new Timeless Truth: A Madhyamaka Analysis of Conflict and Compromise in Buddhist Modernism | ||
| 作者 | McGuire, Robert |
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| 出處題名 | Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
| 卷期 | v.18 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 頁次 | 385 - 401 |
| 出版者 | Routledge |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.routledge.com/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author affiliation: Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent, Glasgow, UK |
| 摘要 | Donald Lopez argues that we should reject the narrative of compatibility between Buddhism and science as any apparent compatibility is achieved through a process of propositional compromise that sacrifices Buddhism’s distinctive content. This conclusion puts tension on the project within Buddhist modernism to formulate a Buddhism that functions within or alongside modern scientific paradigms. Lopez suggests that we should abandon this project, lest Buddhism should be demythologised away to nothing. While agreeing with Lopez I argue that his conclusion only holds under a particular epistemological assumption that is at odds with the Madhyamaka-Prāsaṅgika philosophy of śūnyatā. I will argue, therefore, that a Madhyamaka analysis of the tensions in Buddhist modernism opens up the possibility of a frictionless pluralism between Buddhism and science. This resolution can only be achieved, however, if Madhyamaka Buddhists are willing to make a clear distinction between their Buddhism and their Madhyamaka attitude towards that Buddhism. |
| ISSN | 14639947 (P); 14767953 (E) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2017.1396048 |
| 點閱次數 | 188 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.02.28 |
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