Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge

by B. Alan Wallace

Book Overview

Science has long treated religion as a set of personal beliefs that have little to do with a rational understanding of the mind and the universe. However, B. Alan Wallace, a respected Buddhist scholar, proposes that the contemplative methodologies of Buddhism and of Western science are capable of being integrated into a single discipline: contemplative science. The science of consciousness introduces first-person methods of investigating the mind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231138342
• ISBN13: 9780231138345
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher