| 词条 | The Dancing Wu Li Masters |
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| name = The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics | image = The Dancing Wu Li Masters cover.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = Front cover of Bantam paperback edition | author = Gary Zukav | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | genre = | publisher = William Morrow | pub_date = March 1979 | media_type = Print (hardcover & paperback) | pages = 352 | isbn = 0-688-03402-0 | dewey = 530.1/2 | congress = QC173.98 .Z84 | oclc = 4493031 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The Dancing Wu Li Masters is a 1979 book by Gary Zukav, a popular science work exploring modern physics, and quantum phenomena in particular. It was awarded a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in category of Science.[1][2] Although it explores empirical topics in modern physics research, The Dancing Wu Li Masters gained attention for leveraging metaphors taken from eastern spiritual movements, in particular the Huayen school of Buddhism with the monk Fazang's treatise on the Golden Lion,[3][4] to explain quantum phenomena and has been regarded by some reviewers as a New Age work, although the book is mostly concerned with the work of pioneers in western physics down through the ages. The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered {{zh|s=物理|labels=no}} in Chinese characters, one Chinese translation of the word "physics" in the light of the book's subject matter. This becomes somewhat of a pun as there are many other Chinese characters that could be rendered as "wu li" in atonal pinyin, and chapters of the book are each titled with alternative translations of Wu Li, such as "Nonsense", "My Way" and "I Clutch My Ideas". Zukav participated as a journalist in a 1976 physics conference of eastern and western scientists at Esalen Institute, California; and he used the occasion as material for his book. At the conference, it was said that the Chinese term for physics is 'Wu Li', or "patterns of organic energy." Zukav, among others, conceptualized 'physics' as the dance of the Wu Li Masters – teachers of physical essence. Zukav explains the concept further: The Wu Li Master dances with his student. The Wu Li Master does not teach, but the student learns. The Wu Li Master always begins at the center, the heart of the matter...[5] Editions
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Notes1. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1980 "National Book Awards – 1980"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-07. 2. ^This was the award for paperback Science. From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Award history there were dual awards for hardcover and paperback books in many categories, including several nonfiction subcategories. Most paperback award-winners were reprints of earlier works; this one was eligible for both awards as a new book. 3. ^{{cite web|last=Rothschild|first=Norman Harry|title=The Golden Lion. Fazang (Fa-tsang, 643—712 C.E.)|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/fazang/#SH2d|publisher=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy|accessdate=22 February 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Wong|first=Tai Wing|title=An English Translation and Annotation of The Flower Ornament Golden Lion Treatise|url=https://philpapers.org/archive/WONTFO.pdf|publisher=philpapers.org|accessdate=22 February 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|last=Curtin|first=Mary Ellen|title=Editorial Reviews|url=https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Wu-Li-Masters-Overview/dp/0060959681|publisher=Amazon.com Review|accessdate=16 October 2012|quote=This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.}} References{{reflist}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Dancing Wu Li Masters, The}} 5 : 1979 books|National Book Award-winning works|New Age books|Quantum mysticism|Taoism |
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