摘要
佛教典籍提到虚空有无数颗太阳。与天文学"矮星系"近似对应的有"大千世界"("佛刹"或"佛土")。"矮星系"是"星系"中最常见的典型星系;"佛土"等,也是佛经最常用语。十个"佛刹"世界共有百亿颗太阳,此组成一个最低量级的"世界种"单位。一千万个"世界种"组成一个最低量级的"世界海"单位,此含1017颗太阳。佛教典籍似乎在以另一话语系统,表述着与天文学观测结果近似的结论。但佛教典籍中的表述毕竟不是直接的科学认知,所以宜对其所描述现象的本质采取悬置态度。
The ancient Buddhism book mentioned that there are innumerable suns in the void. 'Dwarf galaxies' correspondsapproximately with 'the big world' ('Focha' or 'Fotu'). 'Dwarf galaxy' is a 'galaxy' of typical galaxies; 'Fotu', etc., is the mostcommon Buddhist term. There are ten billion suns in ten 'Focha', which compose a minimum magnitude of this 'world kind ' unit.Ten million 'world's species' compose a minimum magnitude of the 'Sea World' unit, which contains 1017 suns. Buddhist textsrepresent, as if in another language system, conclusions similar to astronomical observations. But after all the Buddhist book'sindication not directly in the scientific cognition, so the suspension manner suitably to the essence of the phenomenon described inthe ancient book should take.
出处
《自然辩证法通讯》
CSSCI
北大核心
2011年第5期83-90,127,共8页
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
