The monastery and the microscope
Subtitle: conversations with the Dalai Lama on mind, mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
By: edited by Wendy Hasenkamp with Janna R. White
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780300218084
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Buddhism and philosophy; Buddhism and science
Description: An illuminating record of dialogues between the Dalai Lama and some of today's most prominent scientists, philosophers, and contemplatives.  In2013, during a historic six-day meeting at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers, and monks for in-depth discussions on the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human mind. This eye-opening book presents a record of those spirited and wide-ranging dialogues, featuring contributions from prominent scholars like Richard Davidson, Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer, and Arthur Zajonc as they address such questions as: Does nature have a nature? Do you need a brain to be conscious? Can we change our minds and brains through meditation? Throughout, the contributors explore the exciting and sometimes surprising commonalities between Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist methods of perceiving, investigating, and knowing. Part history, part state-of-the-field, part inspiration for the future, this book rigorously and accessibly explores what these two investigative traditions can teach each other, and what that can tell us about ourselves and the world. -- Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-366) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Wendy Hasenkamp with Janna R. White; title: Matter and mind.; title: Quantum physics and the nature of reality.; title: Diving into Indra's net : quantum holism and relativity  -- Arthur Zajonc; title: Why the moon follows me : observation and relationality in phenomena  -- Michel Bitbol; title: Silence of the noble ones : Madhyamaka on the limits of reality  -- Thupten Jinpa; title: Consciousness studies and the nature of mind.; title: Essence of mind : dualism, mind body entanglement, and conscious experience  -- John Durant, Geshe Dadul Namgyal; title: Feeling of being a brain : material correlates of consciousness  -- Christof Koch; title: Moth's eye view : theoretical cognitive modeling  -- Rajesh Kasturirangan; title: To look at the mind with the mind : Buddhist views of consciousness  -- Matthieu Ricard; title: Strange loop of relations : phenomenology and experience  -- Michel Bitbol; title: Transformation.; title: Neuroscience and neuroplasticity.; title: Plastic brain : fundamentals of neuroscience and neuroplasticity  -- Wendy Hasenkamp, Geshe Dadul Namgyal; title: If you toss a stone into a lake : attention and emotion in the brain  -- Richard J. Davidson; title: I feel your pain : the social neuroscience of empathy and compassion  -- Tania Singer; title: Contemplative practice in the world.; title: Working skillfully with spilled milk : mindfulness in clinical psychology  -- Sona Dimidjian; title: Living tradition : applications of compassion training  -- James Doty, Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi; title: Heart of education : learning through contemplative experience  -- Aaron Stern, Arthur Zajonc; title: Transformative measures : education and secular ethics  -- His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Samten -- Appendix :; title: Questions and answers with five thousand monastics