Buddhism & science breaking new ground / [electronic resource] :
Buddhism and science
B. Alan Wallace, editor.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 444 p.) : ill.
- Columbia series in science and religion .
- Columbia series in science and religion. .
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.