Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds (Book 3 - Core Teachings of Dalai Lama)

Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Spiritual and Scientific Views of Our Minds (Book 3 - Core Teachings of Dalai Lama) Paperback – 30 Oct. 2018 by H.H. The Dalai Lama (Author).

This book, designed as a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Western neuroscientists, takes readers on a journey through opposing fields of thought--showing that they may not be so opposing after all. <p/>Organized by the Mind and Life Institute, this discussion addresses some of the most troublesome questions that have driven a wedge between Western science and religion. Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience resulted from meetings of the Dalai Lama and a group of eminent neuroscientists and psychiatrists. Is the mind an ephemeral side effect of the brain's physical processes? Are there forms of consciousness so subtle that science has not yet identified them? How does consciousness happen? The Dalai Lama's incisive, open-minded approach both challenges and offers inspiration to Western scientists. The book consists primarily of dialogue and intense, frank conversations between the Dalai Lama and participants. Questions of perception, dualism, categories of consciousness, memory, dreams, the nature of mental illness, and the mind during and after death are all explored.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 208 pages
• Dimensions 140 x 216 x 12.7mm | 294.84g
• Publication date 30 Oct 2018
• Publisher Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication City/Country Boston, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 1559394781
• ISBN13 9781559394789