Buddhism and Science : An Analytic, Appreciative and Applicative Study

Abstract

This research aimed to answer the question: “Is Buddhism just only science?” The researcher used philosophical approach with dialectic and discursive method hoping to result in the most creative and the best reasonable answer for philosophy. Buddhism is not just only science that was found out from the variety of Buddhism that has been already seen. Buddhism is science that was just only the 4^th paradigm (modern) interpretation. There were other interpretations which indicated that Buddhism was not just science but could be anything such as superstition, the law of nature and the holy religion promising the life of the other world. The 5^th paradigm (moderate postmodernism) presented a critical interpretation of Buddhism in any philosophical paradigms without attachment by accepting all interpretations that could be used to improve the quality of life which in Buddhism is the cessation of suffering in any steps of intellectual development until totally complete cessation of suffering.