Scientific Contributions Of Buddhism And Technology

Chinese Buddhism and Technology Name: Hongyi Jin Student ID: 301277714 E-mail: hongyij@sfu.ca Words Counter: Contant Table: Abstract ——————————p.g Background and History —————————— p.g Scientific Contributions of Buddhism Impacts of technology to Buddhism Positive Impact ————————— Negative Impact ————————— Results of Interviews observations —————————p.g Comments and Evaluation ———————————p.g Summary ——————————— References ——————————— Abstract Introduction Traditionally, religion significantly influenced evolution of science, which primarily included knowledge such as medicine, astronomy(measurements of time), mathematic, etc. However, with rapid development of science, technology has†¦show more content†¦The history of Buddhism was similar to other religions, it was also characterized by the development of a large amount of movements, schisms, and integration. Since that, majority of Buddhism had separated into Chinese Buddhism (including China, Japan), Southern Buddhism (including Vietnam), Tibetan Buddhism. In 21st century, the distribution of buddhist is: Chinese Buddhism — 67.3% (200 million), Southern Buddhism — 28.0% (84 million), Tibetan Buddhism — 3.4% (10 million), outside of Asia — 1.3% (4.8 million). 2 Scientific Contributions of Buddhism One of the most basic tenets of Buddhism is as a means of eliminating human suffering (Moksha). Diseases, as one of the inescapable forms of suffering, explicitly normally explicitly included within this field, become one kind of opponent that buddhists were dealing with.3 Therefore, in many Buddhism religious texts, numerous words concerning illness, healing, and medicine were frequently mentioned. With early development of Buddhism in several centuries, a large amount of medical theories and healing methods were added into Buddhism texts.4 Henceforth, with the spread of the religion and translations, those wealths effectively extended to much of Asia, and also attracted people putting faith on Buddhism. This is one of contributions of Buddhism on medical science, other contributions includes Measurement of time (depending of astronomy), Logic and Philosophy, Agriculture and Industry, and so on.Show MoreRelatedThe Contributions of Religion to Human Knowledge858 Words   |  3 Pages When faced with the question what is religion different things comes to everyone’s head. Some people think of things such as Christianity and Islam or even Buddhism, and some even think that it’s just a belief of some fictitious being well for the most part those are somewhat correct. 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