The Dalai Lama at MIT
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-02733-6 (ISBN)
Their meeting captured headlines; the waiting list for tickets was nearly 2000 names long. If you were unable to attend, this book will take you there. Including both the papers given at the conference, and the animated discussion and debate that followed, The Dalai Lama at MIT reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide, to share insights, studies, and enduring questions.
Is there any substance to monks’ claims that meditation can provide astonishing memories for words and images? Is there any neuroscientific evidence that meditation will help you pay attention, think better, control and even eliminate negative emotions? Are Buddhists right to make compassion a fundamental human emotion, and Western scientists wrong to have neglected it?
The Dalai Lama at MIT shows scientists finding startling support for some Buddhist claims, Buddhists eager to participate in neuroscientific experiments, as well as misunderstandings and laughter. Those in white coats and those in orange robes agree that joining forces could bring new light to the study of human minds.
Anne Harrington is Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Arthur Zajonc is Professor of Physics at Amherst College.
* Contents Part I: Orientations * Introduction *Anne Harrington * Neurophenomenology *Evan Thompson Part II: Attention and Cognitive * Understandings of Attention Cognitive Neuroscience *Jonathan Cohen * Buddhist Training in Advanced Attention Skills *B. Alan Wallace * Dialogue: Attention Part III: Imagery And Visualization * Buddhist Perspectives *Matthieu Ricard * Introspection and Mechanism in Mental Imagery *Stephen Kosslyn, Daniel Reisberg, and Marlene Behrmann * Dialogue: Imagery and Visualization Part IV: Emotion * An Adhidharmic View of Emotional Pathologies and Their Remedies *Georges Dreyfus * Emotions from the Perspective of Western Biobehavioral Science *Richard Davidson * Dialogue: Emotions Part V: Integration and Final Reflections * Dialogue: Integration and Implications * Reflections on "Investigating the Mind," One Year Later *Arthur Zajonc * About the Mind and Life Institute *R. Adam Engle * Contributors * Notes * Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.5.2008 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 4 figures |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-02733-7 / 0674027337 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-02733-6 / 9780674027336 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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