The Three Buddhist Mass System

Mass Spectrum of Three-Pion System in Kaluza-Klein Picture

In this note we present additional arguments in favour of Kaluza and Klein picture of the world. In fact, we show that formula (1) provided by Kaluza-Klein approach with the fundamental scale early calculated [1] gives an excellent description for the mass spectrum of three-pion system. In our previous papers [1, 2] we have presented the arguments in favour of that the Kaluza-Klein picture of t...

17 Buddhist Bioethics

Describing anything as ‘Buddhist’, including in this case a distinctively Buddhist bioethics, is fundamentally problematic from both a historic and Buddhist point of view. Historically, the Buddhist tradition has evolved in dozens of countries for 2500 years, with no one tradition having clear doctrinal authority over the others. Internally, even if a common Buddhist ethics was implicit in the ...

Portraits of Buddhist Women

Journal of Buddhist Ethics

I argue that central Buddhist tenets and meditation methodology support a view of free will similar to Harry Frankfurt’s optimistic view and contrary to Galen Strawson’s pessimistic view. For Frankfurt, free will involves a relationship between actions, volitions, and “metavolitions” (volitions about volitions): simplifying greatly, volitional actions are free if the agent approves of them. For...

Buddhist Theory of Causation