How Bioscience Meets Buddhism
Seoul, South Korea: Unjusa (
2020)
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Abstract
<2020 Buddhist Book Award (2nd place), Korea> <2020 Sejong Book Award, Korea> The book discusses and provides solutions for the philosophical issues of Aristotelian essentialist biology, Darwin’s evolutionary theory, and contemporary molecular biology in light of Buddhist concepts of dependent arising and emptiness. CONTENT 1. Buddhist Teachings from the perspective of Bioscience 2. Bioscience from the Perspective of Buddhist Teachings 3. Enlightenment, Compassion and Bioscientific Phenomena 4. Enlightenment, Revolutionary Change of Worldview 5. The Buddhist Understanding of Development in Biology 1 6. The Buddhist Understanding of Development in Biology 2
7. The Buddhist Understanding of Development 1
8. The Buddhist Understanding of Development 2
9. The Buddhist Understanding of Aging
10. The Buddhist Understanding of Sickness
11. The Buddhist Understanding of Death 1
12. The Buddhist Understanding of Death 2
13. The Buddhist Understanding of Species 1
14. The Buddhist Understanding of Species 2
15. The Concept of Gene and its History
16. Genetic Dualism and Buddhist Criticism
17. The Buddhist Understanding of the Gene 1
18. The Buddhist Understanding of the Gene 2
19. Evolution is not Progress but Changes
20. Evolution is neither Deterministic nor Indeterministic. It is the Process of Interdependent Arising
21. Reconsidering Chance and Necessity
22. What Darwin Left Us
23. The Evolution of Buddhism 1
24. The Evolution of Buddhism 2