Buddhism and Science (eBook)

B. Alan Wallace, founder and director of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness, studied physics as an undergraduate at Amherst College and received his Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University. Wallace trained for many years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland and has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976. He also served as interpreter for numerous Tibetan scholars and contemplatives, including the Dalai Lama. His other published works include Choosing Reality: A Buddhist View of Physics and the Mind, The Bridge of Quiescence: Experiencing Buddhist Meditation, and The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness.

Introduction: Buddhism and Science--Breaking Down the Barriers, by B. Alan WallacePart 1 Historical Context Buddhism and Science: On the Nature of the Dialogue, by Josc Ignacio CabezonScience As an Ally or a Rival Philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist Thinkers' Engagement with Modern Science, by Thupten JinpaPart 2 Buddhism and the Cognitive Sciences Understanding and Transforming the Mind, by His Holiness the XIV Dalai LamaThe Concepts "Self", "Person'', and "I'' in Western Psychology and in Buddhism, by David GalinCommon Ground, Common Cause: Buddhism and Science on the Afflictions of Identity, by William S. WaldronImagining: Embodiment, Phenomenology, and Transformation, by Francisco J. Varela and Natalie DeprazLucid Dreaming and the Yoga of the Dream State: A Psychophysiological Perspective, by Stephen LaBergeOn the Relevance of a Contemplative Science, by Matthieu RicardPart 3 Buddhism and the Physical Sciences Emptiness and Quantum Theory, by William L. AmesTime and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Modern Physics, by Victor MansfieldA Cure for Metaphysical Illusions: Kant Quantum Mechanics and Madhyamaka, by Michel BitbolEmptiness and Relativity, by David Ritz FinkelsteinEncounters Between Buddhist and Quantum Epistemologies, by Anton ZeilingerConclusion: Life As a Laboratory, by Piet HutAppendix: A History of the Mind and Life Institute