Buddhism & science : breaking new ground /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Columbia series in science and religion.
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| Online Access: | ebrary Table of contents Table of contents Table of contents Available to Stanford-affiliated users at: |
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.