Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics

Abstract

This book on religion and science and philosophy in the Buddhist perspective is most welcome for several good reasons. First, it is not often that we are treated to scholarly studies of the subject. Even quantitatively speaking, there are only few writings on the subject to go around. Since the middle of the twentieth century there have been many books written on the general subject of religion and science, but most of these writings discuss issues pertaining to the subject from the modern Western perspective, meaning that the religion under discussion is Christianity and the science it encountered is modern science. In short, the writings pertain to the modern Western experience of the encounters between religion and science. Even until today Western academics and scholars are generally ignorant of relationships between religion and science in non-Western civilisations.