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Consciousness at the Crossroads — The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

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Consciousness at the Crossroads

Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism

El Dalai Lama en 2012
byThe 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)

An edited transcript of a Mind & Life meeting between the Dalai Lama, neuroscientists and psychiatrists. It discusses what consciousness is, whether it can be reduced to the brain, how neurology and Buddhism understand the mind, and what meditation and introspection contribute as methods of knowledge. It tackles questions that have divided science and religion for centuries.

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English

Authorship note

Edited by Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston and B. Alan Wallace. No Spanish edition located; the Spanish title is a descriptive translation.

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Sources

  • Mind & Life Institute. «Celebrating 35 Years: Weaving Origin Stories» (historia institucional; primer diálogo Mind & Life I, Dharamsala, 1987, con Adam Engle y Francisco Varela). mindandlife.org, 2022.

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