ISBN10: 0231123353, ISBN13: 9780231123358, [publisher: Columbia University Press] Softcover Distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Buddhism. Contributors, the Dalai Lama among them, assess not only the fruits of inquiry from East and West, they shed light on the underlying assumptions of these disparate world views. Editor(s): Wallace, B. Alan. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRE; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 630. Breaking New Ground. Series: Columbia Series in Science and Religion. 432 pages, Illustrations. Editor(s): Wallace, B. Alan. Distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Buddhism. Contributors, the Dalai Lama among them, assess not only the fruits of inquiry from East and West, they shed light on the underlying assumptions of these disparate world views. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRE; PD. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 24. Weight: 636. . 2003. 2d. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 0231123353, ISBN13: 9780231123358, [publisher: Columbia University Press:] Softcover 444 pages. Ths book "brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contracts and connections between the wrolds of Western science and Eastern spirituality." FINE SOFTCOVER Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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ISBN10: 0231123353, ISBN13: 9780231123358, [publisher: Columbia University Press, New York] Softcover Paperback. Buddhism and Science brings together distinguished philosophers, Buddhist scholars, physicists, and cognitive scientists to examine the contrasts and connections between the worlds of Western science and Eastern spirituality. This compilation was inspired by a suggestion made by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, himself one of the contributors, after one of a series of cross-cultural scientific dialogues in Dharamsala, India, sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute. Other contributors such as William L. Ames, Matthieu Ricard, and Stephen LaBerge assess not only the fruits of inquiry from East and West but also shed light on the underlying assumptions of these disparate worldviews. Their essays creatively address a broad range of topics: from quantum theory's surprising affinities with the Buddhist concept of emptiness, to the increasing need in the West for a more contemplative science attuned to the first-person investigation of the mind, to the important ways in which the psychological study of "lucid dreaming" maps similar terrain to the cultivation of the Tibetan Buddhist discipline of dream yoga. Reflecting its wide variety of topics, Buddhism and Science is comprised of three sections. The first presents two historical overviews of the engagements between Buddhism and modern science or, rather, how Buddhism and modern science have ...