The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality - Rilegato

 
9780300218084: The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
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ISBN 10: 0300218087 ISBN 13: 9780300218084
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2017

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An illuminating record of dialogues between the Dalai Lama and some of today’s most prominent scientists, philosophers, and contemplatives

In 2013, 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Wendy Hasenkamp is science director at the Mind & Life Institute and teaches contemplative science at the University of Virginia. As a neuroscientist and a contemplative practitioner, she is interested in understanding how subjective experience is represented in the brain, and how the mind and brain can be transformed through experience and practice to enhance flourishing.
Janna R. White is a writer and editor who specializes in Buddhist and South Asian materials. She has numerous academic volumes to her credit, including Caring Economics, which is also based on a Mind & Life dialogue. Her writing explores cross-cultural conceptions of religion, health, and family.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2017
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300218087
ISBN 13 
9780300218084
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
385
Redattore
Hasenkamp Wendy, White Janna R.
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