Buddhism & science : breaking new ground / Buddhism and science B. Alan Wallace, editor. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2003. - 444 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Columbia series in science and religion .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Buddhism and science: on the nature of the dialogue / Jos ��?�Ignacio Cabezn���� -- 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.

0231123345 (alk. paper) 0231123353 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Buddhism and science.

BQ 4570.S3 / B836 2003