Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge

B. Alan Wallace

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Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13835-2
$22.50 / £15.50

October, 2006
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13834-5
$35.00 / £24.00

Acknowledgments

1 - Principles of Contemplative Science

2 - Where Science and Religion Collide

3 - The Study of Consciousness, East and West

4 - Spiritual Awakening and Objective Knowledge

5 - Buddhist Nontheism, Polytheism, and Monotheism

6 - Worlds of Intersubjectivity

7 - Samatha: The Contemplative Refinement of Attention

8 - Beyond Idolatry: The Renaissance of a Spirit of Empiricism

Notes

Bibliography

Related Subjects

• Asian Religion
• Neuroscience & Psychology

Series

• Columbia Series in Science and Religion

About the Author

B. Alan Wallace spent fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, ordained by H. H. the Dalai Lama. He then earned his undergraduate degree in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and his doctorate in religious studies from Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books are Hidden Dimensions: The Unification of Physics and Consciousness; Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity; and Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground (editor). He is the founder and president of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies (http://www.sbinstitute.com).

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