Table of 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.