{"id":8229,"date":"2018-01-10T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:15:45","slug":"alumni-research-in-contemporary-buddhism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/01\/10\/alumni-research-in-contemporary-buddhism\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni research in Contemporary Buddhism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a> is delighted to announce that alumni Robert Mcguire, who graduated with a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/postgraduate\/research-theology-and-religious-studies.html\">PhD in Theology and Religious Studies<\/a>, has published material related to his research in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rcbh20\/current\"><em>Contemporary Buddhism<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contemporary Buddhism<\/em> is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles on the current state and influence of Buddhism.<\/p>\n<p>Robert&#8217;s doctoral project was entitled\u00a0\u2018The Madhyamaka Speaks to the West: A Philosophical Analysis of the Nature of Sunyata as a Universal Truth\u2019, supervised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/king.html\">Professor Richard King<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is entitled &#8216;An All-new Timeless Truth: A Madhyamaka Analysis of Conflict and Compromise in Buddhist Modernism&#8217;.\u00a0It explores the argument put forward by Donald Lopez, who argues that we should reject the narrative of compatibility between Buddhism and science (as any apparent compatibility is achieved through a process of propositional compromise that sacrifices Buddhism\u2019s distinctive content). This conclusion puts tension on the project within Buddhist modernism to formulate a form of Buddhism that functions within or alongside modern scientific paradigms. While agreeing with Lopez, Robert argues that this conclusion only holds under a particular epistemological assumption that is at odds with the Madhyamaka-Pr\u0101sa\u1e45gika philosophy of \u015b\u016bnyat\u0101, and suggests that a Madhyamaka analysis of the tensions in Buddhist modernism opens up the possibility of a frictionless pluralism between Buddhism and science.<\/p>\n<p>To access the article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14639947.2017.1396048\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/14639947.2017.1396048<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Religious Studies is delighted to announce that alumni Robert Mcguire, who graduated with a\u00a0PhD in Theology and Religious Studies, has published material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/01\/10\/alumni-research-in-contemporary-buddhism\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":8241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8252,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/8252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}