The Influence Of Buddhism On The Development Of Science And Technology In Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty ended the turbulent and divided trend of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms,and began a glorious era of great development and prosperity of culture,continuous innovation of science and technology,and falling out of achievements.It is an important historical period in the development history of Chinese culture and science and technology.Buddhism gradually evolved from a foreign religion to the basic elements of China’s traditional ideology and culture.The war of the Five Dynasties led to the great decline of Buddhism,and the Song Dynasty made the future of Buddhism bright and prosperous,just like the anger of spring flowers.The development of science and technology in any era will be affected by the social culture at that time,then how the relationship between the development of Buddhism and science and technology in the Song Dynasty,and in what way Buddhism had an impact on the aspects of science and technology,this is a question worth exploring.Starting from the specific historical period of the Song Dynasty,this paper focuses on the specific religious form of Buddhism,analyzes the current situation of the development of Buddhism and science and technology in this period,and discusses the influence of Buddhism on the development of science and technology at that time in what fields.This paper is generally divided into two parts:The first part analyzes the development status to clarify the background.In the introduction,it explains the important role of social and cultural factors in the development of science and technology,and analyzes the great influence of Buddhism,an important component of Chinese traditional culture,on the development of science and technology in ancient China.In the first chapter mainly from the development toward secularization of Buddhism,Buddhist classics and monk group development such as visual Angle,the paper introduced the development of Buddhism in song dynasty period,the song dynasty history background of the development of science and technology,science and technology development of live and features a whole comb,and attempted to study the effect of Buddhism of the development of science and technology.The second part analyzes the influence of Buddhism on the development of science and technology in the Song Dynasty.The second,third and fourth chapters of this paper,starting from specific scientific and technological fields such as medicine and pharmacy,architectural engineering and agriculture,analyze the origin between Buddhism and various disciplines,the positive influence of Buddhism on each discipline,and the important contributions made by outstanding monks.The fifth chapter mainly reflects on the connotation of the relationship between Buddhism and science and technology,affirms the positive role Buddhism played in the development of science and technology at that time in the Song Dynasty,and analyzes the reasons why Buddhism played an important and positive role in the development of ancient science and technology from the two aspects of Buddhism’s internal thought and external path.The final conclusion part,through summarizing the song dynasty Buddhism positive role for the development of science and technology,it is concluded that the further development of the Buddhism secularization,the buddhist practice of China’s accession to wto,and books,as well as the logical buddhist thought,etc.,for at that time our country medicine,construction engineering,agriculture and other areas of practical application and theoretical research and thinking methods have produced important and profound positive impact on the conclusion,hopes to ancient history and the doctrines of the research in our country,especially in the song dynasty history research has certain rich,even for the contemporary study of the relationship between science and religion in China has the certain enlightenment.