Buddhist Biology: Ancient Eastern Wisdom Meets Modern Western Science,New

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Many highprofile public intellectuals including 'New Atheists' like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens have argued that religion and science are deeply antagonistic, representing two world views that are utterly incompatible. David Barash, a renowned biologist with forty years of experience, largely agrees with them, but with one very big exception: Buddhism.In this fascinating book, David Barash highlights the intriguing common ground between scientific and religious thought, illuminating the many parallels between biology and Buddhism, allowing readers to see both in a new way. Indeed, he shows that there are numerous places where Buddhist and biological perspectives coincide and reinforce each other. For instance, the cornerstone ecological concept the interconnectedness and interdependence of all natural things is remarkably similar to the fundamental insight of Buddhism. Indeed, a major Buddhist text, the Avatamsaka Sutra, which consists of ten insights into the 'interpenetration' between beings and their environment, could well have been written by a trained ecologist, just as current insights in evolutionary biology, genetics and development might have been authored by the Buddha himself. Barash underscores other notable similarities, including a shared distrust of simple causeandeffect analysis, an appreciation of the 'rightness' of nature, along with an acknowledgment of the suffering that results when natural processes are tampered with. Buddhist Biology shows how the concept of 'nonself,' so confusing to many Westerners, is fully consistent with modern biology, as is the Buddhist perspective of 'impermanence.' Barash both demystifies and celebrates the biology of Buddhism and vice versa, showing in a concluding tourdeforce how modern Buddhism shorn of its hocuspocus and abracadabra not only justifies but actually mandates both socially and environmentally 'engaged' thought and practice.Buddhist Biology is a work of unique intellectual synthesis that sheds astonishing light on biology as well as on Buddhism, highlighting the remarkable ways these two perspectives come together, like powerful searchlights that offer complementary and stunning perspectives on the world and our place in it.

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