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Buddhism & science: breaking new ground
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Columbia University Press
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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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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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