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Dr Granville Dharmawardena

Scientific Acceptability

of Rebirth

Scientific Acceptability

of Rebirth

Scientific

Acceptability

Rebirth

Dr. Granville Dharmawardena

Ph.D. (Cambridge), M.I.Chem.C, C..Chem, FIAutoE

An appreciation

This is to inform that all members of

The Foundation For Buddhist Research

convey their heartfelt appreciation to

Reverend Banagala Upatissa, the

Chief Sanga Nayaka for Sri Lanka in Japan and

the Deputy Chief Incumbent of the Maha Bodhi

Aggra Srawaka Maha Vihara in Sri Lanka

For contributing by bearing all the expenses for

printing this valuable book with a view to assisting

the Foundation to build up its initial funds.

CONTENTS

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

The Foundation For Buddhist Research . . . . . . . 7

Scientific Acceptability of Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Science and Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Classical Science (17th–19th centuries) . . . . . 12

The Birth of Modern Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Scientific Acceptability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

The Phenomenon of Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Scientific Examination of Rebirth . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Spontaneous Recall of Past Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Past Life Therapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Child Prodigies & Others who can use

Past Life Knowledge and Experiences . . . 38

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Preface

Scientists and people who are educated in science

refuse to accept this phenomenon. It is mainly be-

cause they are familiar only with classical science,

which cannot perceive a possible mechanism by

which it can happen.

In this book Dr. Granville Dharmawardena, who is an

eminent scientist referred to in the nuclear science

text books in the United Kingdom and in the United

States of America, had his education and training at

the Cambridge University in the United Kingdom,

Harvard University in the United States, the Austral-

ian School of Nuclear Technology, Australia, and at

the Atomic Energy Commission in France, and being

most familiar with the views of the twentieth Century

modern science, presents here a study he has made

of rebirth.

Dr. Dharmawardena points out that the reason why

classical science cannot explain rebirth is due to in-

herent limitations in classical science. Modern sci-

ence has transcended these limitations, and therefore

rebirth is within the scope of modern science. Modern

science accepts rebirth as a scientifically acceptable

phenomenon through the same tests used to prove

scientific acceptability of generally accepted modern

science phenomena.

Dr. Granville Dharmawardena point out that as sci-

ence advances it gets closer and closer to reality, and

this also brings science closer and closer to the Teach-

ings of the Buddha.

Lastly I wish to tell you that I was blessed with the op-

portunity of writing the preface to this book, as Dr.

Dharmawardena, a Sri Lankan scientist, was blessed

with the wisdom to prove rebirth after 2,540 years –

although it was researched by eminent scientists

throughout the world.

“Let’s build a world in which we live in harmo-

ny, without any calamities, by practicing the

Teachings of the Buddha”.

N.L.B. Kiriella

Udwela

20164

The Foundation For Buddhist Research

The search for the True Reality of Nature has been the

pursuit of hundreds of thousands of philosophers and

scientists for thousands of years, and they have yet a

long way to go. But the Buddha acquired full know-

ledge of the true reality of nature over 2,500 years ago,

albeit not through the circuitous path followed by the

scientists. Intuition and rationalism are two modes of

functioning of the human mind. Buddha used the in-

tuition mode to acquire complete understanding of

true reality when he was in a mental state of supreme

enlightenment. Scientists are using the rationalist

mode of thousands of unenlightened minds.

In the current era of the human being, the scientific

method is extremely popular all over the world and

people accept anything that has scientists’ accept-

ance. The reason for this is that science gave rise to

the technology which helped man to acquire enor-

mous material wealth and increase his living stand-

ards in leaps and bounds.

The science that has become so popular is the mat-

erialistic mechanistic model built by Descartes, Fran-

cis Bacon and Isaac Newton. This Newtonian science

had two major limitations that prevented the scien-

tists from moving in the direction of true reality. They

are, limiting science to what is only materialistic, and

to what is within three spatial dimensions. Such lim-

itations are not there in the intuitional route.

The Dalai Lama says, “Science and technology bring

society tremendous benefit. Yet, due to highly devel-

oped technology, we also have more anxiety and more

fear. I always feel that mental development and mat-

erial development must be well balanced, so that to-

gether they may make a more human world. If we lose

human values and human beings become part of a

machine, there is no freedom from pain and pleasure.

Without freedom from pain and pleasure, it is very dif-

ficult to demarcate between right and wrong. The sub-

jects of pain and pleasure naturally involve feeling,

mind and consciousness.”

Understanding and practice of Buddhism going side

by side with science and technology is essential to cre-

ate balanced human beings. Peace at home, in society

and in the world can arise only among a balanced hu-

man population.

Albert Einstein and other prominent 20th century sci-

entists took science beyond these limitations and de-

veloped modern science, which is closer to the

teachings of the Buddha. This confirms that science

is now on the right path and that Buddhism is a guid-

ing light to science.

As a result of the paradigm shift in science brought

about by Einstein and other 20th century scientists,

interest in Buddhism is rapidly expanding among the

scientists who are in the forefront of science. In order

to enable this process to trickle down to others rapidly,

it is necessary to research into ways and means of pre-

senting the teachings of the Buddha to believers of sci-

ence in a language they understand, accept and trust.

The function of the Foundation For Buddhist Re-

search is to undertake research to find ways and

means of presenting the teachings of the Buddha in

terms that people the world over – and our school chil-

dren, who trust science more than Buddhism – un-

derstand and accept in order to assist them to make

use of them. One should note that school children in

Sri Lanka still learn only the 19th century science that

presents the extremely materialistic and mechanistic

model of the universe. They do not even get a chance

to know that there was a paradigm shift in science

during the 20th century.

Ven. Madawala Upàli

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