{"id":1366,"date":"2024-10-09T05:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/?page_id=1366"},"modified":"2024-10-15T05:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:11:36","slug":"buddhist-concept-of-consciousness-and-the-scientific-discoveries-in-the-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/?page_id=1366","title":{"rendered":"BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES IN THE MODERN TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: 10.30792\/2949-5768-2024-8-146-154<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES IN THE MODERN TIMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mukunda Bista \u2013 President of the religious organization &#171;Byomakusuma Buddhadharma Sangha&#187; (Kathmandu, Nepal).<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: mukundabista@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>Consciousness has been at the center of debates and discussions since ancient times. In India, for example, there were several schools of thought professing different ideas about consciousness and its nature. They ranged from an extreme form of material monism to an extreme form of idealism, mental monism. Somehow, the debate in modern times also continues: about the status and nature of consciousness; whether it has an independent existence, independent of matter, or whether it is still an extension of matter. Since the beginning of consciousness studies in the 21st century, and particularly with the development of quantum physics, the gnawing question of consciousness, its existence, nature, and role has re-emerged among intellectuals, philosophers, and scientists. Here, we present the Buddhist view of consciousness and how modern studies on consciousness can benefit from the immense knowledge about consciousness accumulated by Buddhists over 2500 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUDDHIST<\/strong><strong> CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES IN THE MODERN TIMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mukunda Bista<\/p>\n<p>Consciousness has been at the center of debates and discussions from the ancient time. In India, for example, there were several schools of thoughts professing different ideas on consciousness and its nature. It ranged from an extreme form of material monism to the extreme form of idealism, mental monism. Somehow the debate in the modern time too continues, about the status and the nature of consciousness; whether it has an independent existence, independent to the matter, or whether it is still an extension of matter. Since the beginning of consciousness studies in the 21st century, and particularly since the evolution of quantum physics, the gnawing question of consciousness, its existence, nature, and role has re-emerged fresh among intellectuals, philosophers, and scientists. Here, I will present the Buddhist view of consciousness and how modern studies on consciousness can benefit from the immense knowledge accumulated on consciousness since 2500 years ago by Buddhists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/\u041c\u0443\u043a\u0443\u043d\u0434\u0430-\u0411\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0430-146-154-1.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-899\" src=\"http:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/pdf_150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOI: 10.30792\/2949-5768-2024-8-146-154 BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES IN THE MODERN TIMES Mukunda Bista \u2013 President of the religious organization &#171;Byomakusuma Buddhadharma Sangha&#187; (Kathmandu, Nepal). E-mail: mukundabista@gmail.com. Consciousness has been at the center of debates and discussions since <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/?page_id=1366\" class=\"read-more\">\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0434\u0430\u043b\u044c\u0448\u0435 &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1310,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1366","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1366\/revisions\/1531"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eng.buddhist-studies.ru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}