The Dalai Lama at Mit

Reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions.

Auteur
Anne Harrington is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Arthur Zajonc is Professor of Physics at Amherst College.

Texte du rabat
The meeting captured headlines; the waiting list contained nearly 2000 names. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the conference papers and the animated discussion and debate they generated, it reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide to share insights, studies, and enduring questions.

Contenu

• Contents Part I: Orientations Introduction *Anne Harrington Neurophenomenology Evan Thompson Part II: Attention and Cognitive Understandings of Attention Cognitive Neuroscience Jonathan Cohen Buddhist Training in Advanced Attention Skills B. Alan Wallace Dialogue: Attention Part III: Imagery And Visualization Buddhist Perspectives *Matthieu Ricard Introspection and Mechanism in Mental Imagery Stephen Kosslyn, Daniel Reisberg, and Marlene Behrmann Dialogue: Imagery and Visualization Part IV: Emotion An Adhidharmic View of Emotional Pathologies and Their Remedies *Georges Dreyfus Emotions from the Perspective of Western Biobehavioral Science Richard Davidson Dialogue: Emotions Part V: Integration and Final Reflections Dialogue: Integration and Implications Reflections on "Investigating the Mind," One Year Later Arthur Zajonc About the Mind and Life Institute R. Adam Engle Contributors Notes Index