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Indlæser... The Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence that Explains the World (udgave 2017)af Arri Eisen (Forfatter)
Work InformationThe Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence that Explains the World af Arri Eisen
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  BTRIPP | May 9, 2019 |   This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Eisen and Konchok cover a broad range of topics--everything from evolution to morality to mental health--and it's fascinating to see how each tradition's standard understanding of these issues, and reaction to the other's understanding, brings new ways of thinking about or approaches to them. It's an ambitious breadth of topics, and I was often frustrated that the authors didn't devote more time to each, even as I was excited to move on to the next intriguing chapter and topics. I very much hope Eisen, Konchok, and the other participants in this science-Buddhism exchange collaborate on future volumes, and will eagerly read them if they do. Trismegistus | Apr 10, 2018 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) eachurch | Apr 9, 2018 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. ) Bidwell-Glaze | Dec 18, 2017 | This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.The book highlights how Eisen and his colleagues traveled to northern India to teach Buddhist monks biology, and, overall, the main methods of research and Western scientific thought. In turn, Eisen and Konchok helped bring religious, spiritual, and ethical discussions into the classrooms of science courses at Emory. Their stories highlight the successful mixture of science and spirituality in two vastly different places. If you are at all interested in science, spirituality, and the mixture of the two, read this book. ( ) Kronomlo | Dec 13, 2017 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Eight years ago, in an unprecedented intellectual endeavor, the Dalai Lama invited Emory University to integrate modern science into the education of the thousands of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in exile in India. This project, the Emory Tibet Science Initiative, became the first major change in the monastic curriculum in six centuries. Eight years in, the results are transformative. The singular backdrop of teaching science to Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns offered provocative insights into how science and religion can work together to enrich each other, as well as to shed light on life and what it means to be a thinking, biological human. In The Enlightened Gene, Emory University Professor Dr. Arri Eisen, together with monk Geshe Yungdrung Konchok explore the striking ways in which the integration of Buddhism with cutting-edge discoveries in the biological sciences can change our understanding of life and how we live it. What this book discovers along the way will fundamentally change the way you think. Are humans inherently good? Where does compassion come from? Is death essential for life? Is experience inherited? These questions have occupied philosophers, religious thinkers and scientists since the dawn of civilization, but in today's political discourse, much of the dialogue surrounding them and larger issues--such as climate change, abortion, genetically modified organisms, and evolution--are often framed as a dichotomy of science versus spirituality. Strikingly, many of new biological discoveries--such as the millions of microbes that we now know live together as part of each of us, the connections between those microbes and our immune systems, the nature of our genomes and how they respond to the environment, and how this response might be passed to future generations--can actually be read as moving science closer to spiritual concepts, rather than further away. The Enlightened Gene opens up and lays a foundation for serious conversations, integrating science and spirit in tackling life's big questions. Each chapter integrates Buddhism and biology and uses striking examples of how doing so changes our understanding of life and how we lead it. No library descriptions found. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers AlumArri Eisen's book The Enlightened Gene: Biology, Buddhism, and the Convergence that Explains the World was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.  Populære omslag
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(finished 12/15/17)
This was a LibraryThing.com “Early Reviewer” program book, so I really regret losing it and my notes on it. This grew out of the Emory Tibet Science Initiative, with half of it being the science side trying to engage the Tibetan traditions, and half of it being a Tibetan monk learning the Western scientific model. It was a fascinating read, and I was sharing bits from it with friends while I was working my way through it, so I know I had a lot of bookmarks in there highlighting “the good stuff”, which I wish I could be bringing to you at this point.