The Dalai Lama said that if Science contradicted Buddhism, Buddhism would have to change?

It's interesting that Buddhism and science coexist so well. Buddhism is totally open to Science. And in 2500 years, science has not contradicted any Buddhist ideas. What are your opinions on this?|||Unlike Christianity, Buddhism has never claimed to explain how the universe came into being or why it is the way it is at all. Some revelations of modern physics even seem to confirm the Buddhist conception of a mind-bogglingly old and immense universe that is both overflowing with being and also, in a fundamental sense, "empty." And there has never been the presumption that humanity was at the center of the universe, so modern scientific findings to the contrary have not come as a shock to Buddhists.





That said, a literal adherence to the exact descriptions of the cosmos one finds in traditional Buddhism can lead one to some very unscientific conclusions. But it is not necessary to take such descriptions literally in order to recognize the worth of the Buddha's teachings. The spiritual doctrine of karma and rebirth is obviously not one that most scientists would accept; but it is not clear that even this doctrine makes any hard and fast claims about the physical structure of the universe, and it does not pose the same aggressive challenge to scientific reason that, say, creationism does. Hence the relative lack of conflict between Buddhism and science.|||Buddhism is a very practical and open philosophy and belief system. It is in fact very much in sync with the universe; when chanted properly it has been demonstrated that the frequency of the sound "om" is the same frequency of the vibrations of the universe. Many of it's ideas and philosophies are inline with quantum physics, and the fact that it's willing to flow with science is what Buddhism is about, being in sync with the universe.|||According to Buddhism, there is no absolute truth. Truth is a relative term depending on the observer. But science (Western or Modern Science, that is) states that there is an absolute truth.





Therefore Buddhism and Western Science are totally different knowledge systems. And if one believes in Buddhism, he/she should not try to "rationalize" Buddhism according to Western Science.|||Buddhism is probably my favourite religion/philosophy. And the Dalai Lama is rather adorable. I know that sounds weird, but we watched this documentary in class about him and it was awesome. He crashed his car when he was a teen :D. But Buddhism is rather liberal and I think that might come from not actually preaching about a god, but about morals.|||To be put it bluntly, Dalai Lama wa wrong.


Because, sceince is a study of relative laws(relativity).


Budddhim is a practice to understand absolutivity.


They can co-exist healthily even if there are differences as their angle of views are different.|||That's because Buddhists don't believe in absolute truth therefore, they cannot know with any certainty that their truth IS the truth. Truth is all relative to them.