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Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

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the correspondence between a model <strong>and</strong> object, because if a model is correct<br />

then it has structural similarities with the phenomena that it is reconstructing;<br />

otherwise it can lead to predictions for which there are no meaningful physical<br />

explanation, because they have no correspondence to experimental data.<br />

[10] Garfield, J. L. <strong>The</strong> fundamental wisdom <strong>of</strong> the middle way: Nagarjuna's<br />

'Mulamadhyamakakarika' (MMK). New York: Oxford University Press. 1996,<br />

page 3.<br />

[11] See: Lindtner, C. op.cit., pp. 109 <strong>and</strong> 113.<br />

[12] Images, metaphors, allegories or symbolic examples, analogical ideas, have<br />

a freshness which rational ideas do not possess. <strong>The</strong> starting point <strong>of</strong> the MMK<br />

is the double nature <strong>of</strong> phenomena. <strong>The</strong>se fundamental two-body systems<br />

cannot be further divided analytically. <strong>The</strong> two bodies constitute a system <strong>of</strong><br />

two material or immaterial components which complement each other. One <strong>of</strong><br />

the components cannot exist without the other; each one forms the<br />

counterpart <strong>of</strong> the other.<br />

[13] Tarab Tulku Rinpoche. UD-Newsletter N. 4, January 2006. Rabten, Geshe.<br />

Mahamudra. Der Weg zur Erkenntnis der Wirklichkeit. Le Mont Pélèrin. 2002.<br />

Keown, D.. A Dictionary <strong>of</strong> <strong>Buddhism</strong>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2003.<br />

[14] See: Rock, I. Perception. New York: H.W. Freeman & Company. 1995.<br />

[15] Einstein, A. & Infeld, L. <strong>The</strong> Evolution <strong>of</strong> Physics. London: Cambridge<br />

University Press. 1938. pp. 257, 311/312.<br />

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