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The Historical Context
2015
Overview
AS A WORK OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, this book argues that the things Buddhists said about science were historically contingent. That is, Buddhists’ decisions to discuss what they discussed, when they discussed them, were deeply influenced by the times in which they found themselves. That in the 1890s some literati looked for similarities between what they were learning from modern science and what they read in the Buddhist canon, for example, was part of a broader movement to find Chinese origins for the Western learning then being embraced by the Chinese literati as a whole. History also explains why the most
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780231170345, 0231170343
