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Buddhism & science : breaking new ground / B. Alan Wallace, editor.

Contributor(s): Wallace, B. Alan
Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia series in science and religion: Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2003Description: xvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0231123353 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0231123345 (alk. paper)Other title: Buddhism and scienceSubject(s): Buddhism and scienceDDC classification: 294.3/375 LOC classification: BQ4570.S3 | B836 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Buddhism and science: on the nature of the dialogue / José Ignacio Cabezón -- Science as an ally or a rival philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist thinkers' engagement with modern science / Thupten Jinpa -- Understanding and transforming the mind / His holiness the XIV Dalai Lama -- The concepts "self", "person", and "I" in western psychology and in Buddhism / David Galin -- Common ground, common cause: Buddhism and science on the afflictions of identity / William S. Waldron -- Imagining: embodiment, phenomenology, and transformation / Francisco J. Varela and Natalie Depraz -- Lucid dreaming and the yoga of the dream state: a psychophysiological perspective / Stephen Laberge -- On the relevance of a contemplative science / Matthieu Ricard -- Emptiness and quantum theory / William L. Ames -- Time and impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and modern physics / Victor Mansfield -- A cure for metaphysical illusions: Kant, Quantum mechanics, and Madhyamaka / Michel Bitbol -- Emptiness and relativity / David Ritz Finkelstein -- Encounters between Buddhist and quantum epistemologies / Anton Zeilinger -- Conclusion: life as a laboratory / Piet Hut -- Appendix: A history of the Mind and Life Institute.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Buddhism and science: on the nature of the dialogue / José Ignacio Cabezón -- Science as an ally or a rival philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist thinkers' engagement with modern science / Thupten Jinpa -- Understanding and transforming the mind / His holiness the XIV Dalai Lama -- The concepts "self", "person", and "I" in western psychology and in Buddhism / David Galin -- Common ground, common cause: Buddhism and science on the afflictions of identity / William S. Waldron -- Imagining: embodiment, phenomenology, and transformation / Francisco J. Varela and Natalie Depraz -- Lucid dreaming and the yoga of the dream state: a psychophysiological perspective / Stephen Laberge -- On the relevance of a contemplative science / Matthieu Ricard -- Emptiness and quantum theory / William L. Ames -- Time and impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and modern physics / Victor Mansfield -- A cure for metaphysical illusions: Kant, Quantum mechanics, and Madhyamaka / Michel Bitbol -- Emptiness and relativity / David Ritz Finkelstein -- Encounters between Buddhist and quantum epistemologies / Anton Zeilinger -- Conclusion: life as a laboratory / Piet Hut -- Appendix: A history of the Mind and Life Institute.

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