Tibetan and Himalayan Library - THL

THL Title Text

Search Results

Buddhism and science : allies or enemies?
This essay discusses the areas where Buddhism and science converge, what they can learn from each other, and what will remain unique to each in terms of issues of causality, morality, and the pursuit ...
William James and Buddhism : American pragmatism and the orient
Abstract: William James pursued far-ranging enquiries in America across the fields of psychology, philosophy and religious studies between 1890 and 1910. Historical and comparative overlaps emerge bet...
MindScience : an east-west dialogue
MindScience is a record of a conference that took place between the Dalai Lama and psychologists, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and psychobiologists at Harvard Medical School in March 24, 199...
Buddhism and science : on the nature of the dialogue
Buddhist scholar José Cabezón looks at the history of the dialogue between Buddhism and science. He outlines the way Buddhism has been an object of scientific investigation in various ways and the e...
Buddhism and neuroscience : studying the well-trained mind
This article from the magazine Science reports on the 2003 Mind and Life conference at Harvard with the Dalai Lama and psychologists, scientists, and others. The article includes comments from ...
Inside mind and life : a quarterly newsletter of the mind and life institute
In this first newsletter of the Mind and Life institute, the institute reports some of its current activities, research programs, services, notices of upcoming publications, and an outline of future ...
This resource has a 1 star rating
Buddhism & science : breaking new ground
This volume contains contributions from prominent Buddhists, scholars, physicists, neurologists, and others on topics where Buddhism and the sciences share common ground. The book is divided into thre...
Overlapping worlds
This article outlines some of the potential problems and objections to an exchange between Buddhism and science and offers solutions by rethinking about the nature and practice of both disciplines. (Z...
The lama in the lab
This article provides a general profile of the Mind and Life Institute, a group established by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Western scientists to pursue the interface between Buddhism and science t...
Visions of compassion : western scientists and Tibetan Buddhists examine human nature
Visions of Compassion arose out of the 1995 Mind and Life conference entitled "Altruism, Ethics, and and Compassion." The meeting brought together the Dalai Lama with Western neuroscientists, p...
Copyright THL 1999-Present   |   Comments, Suggestions, Feedback? Use our feedback form.

Loading...