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Buddhism & science [electronic resource] : breaking new ground / B. Alan Wallace, editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Columbia series in science and religionPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2003.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 444 p.) : illISBN:
  • 0231507364 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780231507363 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780231507356 (electronic bk.)
  • 0231507356 (electronic bk.)
Other title:
  • Buddhism and science
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Buddhism & science.DDC classification:
  • 294.3375 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ4570.S3 B836 2003eb
Online resources:
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.
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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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