http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/07/08/the-aesthetics-of-neural-buddhism/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:12:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/07/08/the-aesthetics-of-neural-buddhism/#comment-3635 Matthew Stokeley Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:07:50 +0000 http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/?p=283#comment-3635 There is an older, conceptual similarity between Buddhism and the West, namely in the philosophy of Kant, expounded upon by the great Indologist Fyodor Stcherbatsky and later by Foucault, which perhaps underlie the aesthetic connection. Buddhism itself is also quite malleable to existing religious/scientific ideology---the result of this can be seen in various ways Buddhism spread throughout Asia, by pragmatically co-opting and incorporating the native religion (Shamanism, forms of Hinduism, Taoism, Islam) into vehicles for the message of Buddhism. There is an older, conceptual similarity between Buddhism and the West, namely in the philosophy of Kant, expounded upon by the great Indologist Fyodor Stcherbatsky and later by Foucault, which perhaps underlie the aesthetic connection. Buddhism itself is also quite malleable to existing religious/scientific ideology—the result of this can be seen in various ways Buddhism spread throughout Asia, by pragmatically co-opting and incorporating the native religion (Shamanism, forms of Hinduism, Taoism, Islam) into vehicles for the message of Buddhism.

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