Редактирование: Buddhist transhumanism

[[File:Cyborg buddah.jpg|thumb|right|Buddhist transhumanism seeks to integrate mindfulness practices with [[emerging technologies|emerging technologies]]]]
'''Buddhist transhumanism''' is an emerging idea, integrating transhumanism with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism Buddhism] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_philosophy Buddhist philosophy]

[[Michael LaTorra]] published 'What Is Buddhist Transhumanism?'<ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14746700.2015.1023993?journalCode=rtas20 What Is Buddhist Transhumanism?]</ref><ref>[http://www.transfigurist.org/2015/12/michael-latorra-explains-buddhist.html Michael LaTorra explains Buddhist Transhumanism in a nutshell]</ref> in 2015, covering goals such as [[abolitionism|reducing suffering]] and realizing awakening, but with the assistance of scientific knowledge and technological means.

[[James Hughes]], a former Buddhist monk himself, has written of a '[[Cyborg Buddha]]' as analogy for combining practices such as meditation to increase empathy with established transhumanist ideas such as [[cyborgization]] in a term he describes as 'moral enhancement'. The Cyborg Buddha project has undergone as small amount of critique, in fashions comparable to the issues faced by [[christian transhumanism]].<ref>[http://jetpress.org/v24/evans.htm If You See a Cyborg in the Road, Kill the Buddha: Against Transcendental Transhumanism]</ref> Commentary has also come from India, where commentators appear open to the idea.<ref>[http://indiafuturesociety.org/the-maitreya-and-the-cyborg-connecting-east-and-west-for-enriching-transhumanist-philosophy/ The Maitreya and the Cyborg: Connecting East and West for Enriching Transhumanist Philosophy]</ref>

There is now a Buddhist [[blockchain|crypotocurrency]] to inventive Buddhist activities.<ref>[https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhist-cryptocurrency-karma-coin-lotos-network-ethereum/?utm_content=bufferdbf69&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Programmers say this Buddhist Bitcoin could “disrupt religion”]</ref>

== External links ==
* [http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/cyborgbuddha Cyborg Buddha Project] at the [[IEET]]
* [https://www.facebook.com/groups/723312634439880/ Facebook Group]

== References ==
[[Category:Spiritual transhumanism]]
[[Category:Buddhist transhumanism]]