"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 defined, rivaled,
or complemented one another. The second describes the ways Buddhism
and the cognitive sciences inform each other; the third addresses
points of intersection between Buddhism and the physical sciences.
On the broadest level this work illuminates how different ways of
exploring the nature of human identity, the mind, and the universe
at large can enrich and enlighten one another.
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