The Dalai Lama at MIT
By: edited by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc.
Contributors: Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-; Harrington, Anne, 1960-; Zajonc, Arthur.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674023192
Subjects: Psychology and religion -- Congresses.; Buddhism -- Psychology -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Records of the conference, "Investigating the mind," at MIT, September 2003. Cf. Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Orientation; title: Introduction / Anne Harrington; title: Neurophenomenology and Francisco Varela / Evan Thompson; title: II: Attention and cognitive control; title: Understandings of attention and cognitive control from cognitive neuroscience / Jonathan Cohen; title: Buddhist training in enhanced attention skills / B. Alan Wallace; title: Dialogue: attention and cognitive control; title: III: Imagery and visualization; title: Buddhist perspectives on mental imagery / Matthieu Ricard; title: Introspection and mechanism in mental imagery / Stephen M. Kosslyn, Daniel Reisberg, and Marlene Behrmann; title: Dialogue: Imagery and visualization; title: IV: Emotion; title: An Abhidharmic view of emotional pathologies and their remedies / Georges Dreyfus; title: Emotions from the perspective of western biobehavioral science / Richard J. Davidson; title: Dialogue: Emotion; title: V: Integration and final reflections; title: Dialogue: Integration and implications; title: Reflections on "investigating the mind," one year later / Arthur Zajonc; title: About the Mind and Life Institute / R. Adam Engle.