Buddhism Through the Eyes of a Physicist

This book presents a view of Buddhism from the perspective of a theoretical physicist. It helps the reader comprehend deep Buddhist ideas by bringing them closer to a more familiar context. Their structure and main ideas are compared with the structure of scientific theory and the modern understanding of the laws of the Universe.

Sergey Alexandrov is a theoretical physicist working in the field of quantum gravity and superstring theory. He has two PhD degrees received in 2003 from St. Petersburg State University in Russia and from the University of Paris XI in France. Since 2005, he has been working at the University of Montpellier where he currently holds the position of "directeur de recherche". He is the author of more than 80 scientific publications and is a practicing Buddhist in the Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

I. The religion of knowledge, or the Science of the mind II. Axioms III. The four seals IV. The two truths V. Emptiness VI. Death VII. Analogies VIII. Space and time IX. Synthesis