I was told of this bizarre situation a few days ago by someone who is a student at Kings College (London). It transpires that the
USSR: Buryats-Mongolian Buddhist Monks Confirm the Scientific Nature of Buddhism (1923)
What Stcherbatsky describes from personal experience, is that the Buryats Buddhists supported a) Socialism, and b) Science, apparently because of the similarities between these two systems, and that of certain aspects of Buddhist philosophy.
The Buddha’s Middle Way of Knowing
Moreover, the Buddha clearly states that conscious awareness cannot exist without the conditions associated with a physical body and its functioning biological processes. Within the Buddha’s interpretation of reality, there does not exist any notion of a ‘dis-embodied’ conscious awareness.
How the Bourgeois State Usurped Socialist Education Methods in the UK
It is interesting how the capitalist system will steal Socialist educational methods if a profit can be made by selling them! Socialist education methods are
Email: The Buddha’s Knowledge of Atoms (14.9.2017)
One major difference between the Buddha’s system and any modern parallel is that simply ‘knowing’ things (as is evident in the modern, Western academic tradition) is not enough to escape suffering.
Buddha’s Material (Atomic) Theory
Although the different Buddhist schools argued over the existence or nature of the atom, the Theravada thinkers conceived of an atom comprised of ‘space’ and ‘sub-particles’ (dravya-paramanu) which is physically complex (rupa-kalapa), whilst its constituent parts exist in a state on constant flux (kalapanga).
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 