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Buddhism and Science columbia series in science and religion Columbia Series in Science and Religion SERIES EDITORS Robert E.Pollack,Professor ofBiological Sciences,Columbia University Richard Bulliet,Professor ofHistory,Columbia University Roald Hoffman,Professor ofChemistry,Cornell University Ryuichi Abe,Professor ofReligion,Columbia University ADVISORY BOARD Rita Charon,Professor ofMedicine,Columbia University George Fisher,Professor ofEarth Science,Johns Hopkins University Wayne Proudfoot,Professor ofReligion,Columbia University Don Shriver,Emeritus,Union Theological Seminary Adin Steinsaltz,Program in Judaism and the Life Sciences Robert Thurman,Professor ofReligion,Columbia University The Columbia Series in Science and Religion consists of peer-reviewed scholarly and general interest titles that probe salient issues relating to science and religion.The series is a forum for the examination ofissues that lie at the boundary of these two complementary ways of compre- hending the world and our place in it.By examining the intersections between one or more of the sciences and one or more religions, the CSSR hopes to stimulate dialogue and encourage understanding. Buddhism Science & BREAKING NEW GROUND B. Alan Wallace, editor columbia university press / new york Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester,West Sussex Copyright © 2003Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buddhism and science :breaking new ground / B.Alan Wallace,editor. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-231-12334-5(cloth :alk.paper) — ISBN 0-231-12335-3(pbk.:alk.paper) 1.Buddhism and science. I.Wallace,B.Alan. BQ4570.S3B8362003 294.3′375—dc21 2002031502 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States ofAmerica c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to the memory of Francisco J. Varela (1946–2001) Contents List ofContributors ix Preface xv Introduction:Buddhism and Science—Breaking Down the Barriers B.ALAN WALLACE 1 Part 1 Historical Context 31 Buddhism and Science:On the Nature ofthe Dialogue JOSÉ IGNACIO CABEZÓN 35 Science As an Ally or a Rival Philosophy? Tibetan Buddhist Thinkers’ Engagement with Modern Science THUPTEN JINPA 71 Part 2 Buddhism and the Cognitive Sciences 87 Understanding and Transforming the Mind HIS HOLINESS THE XIV DALAI LAMA 91 The Concepts “Self,”“Person,”and “I”in Western Psychology and in Buddhism DAVID GALIN 107 Common Ground,Common Cause:Buddhism and Science on the Afflictions ofIdentity WILLIAM S.WALDRON 145 Imagining:Embodiment,Phenomenology,and Transformation FRANCISCO J.VARELA AND NATALIE DEPRAZ 195 viii Contents Lucid Dreaming and the Yoga ofthe Dream State:A Psychophysiological Perspective STEPHEN LABERGE 233 On the Relevance ofa Contemplative Science MATTHIEU RICARD 261 Part 3 Buddhism and the Physical Sciences 281 Emptiness and Quantum Theory WILLIAM L.AMES 285 Time and Impermanence in Middle Way Buddhism and Modern Physics VICTOR MANSFIELD 305 A Cure for Metaphysical Illusions:Kant,Quantum Mechanics,and Madhyamaka MICHEL BITBOL 325 Emptiness and Relativity DAVID RITZ FINKELSTEIN 365 Encounters Between Buddhist and Quantum Epistemologies ANTON ZEILINGER 387 Conclusion:Life As a Laboratory PIET HUT 399 Appendix:A History ofthe Mind and Life Institute 417 Index 423 Contributors WILLIAM L.AMES William L.Ames has an M.S.in physics from the California Institute ofTech- nology and a Ph.D.in Buddhist studies from the University of Washington.He has taught a course on physics and Buddhism at California Institute of Integral Studies.He is a coauthor ofa paper on black holes and is the author ofseveral pa- pers on various aspects of the Madhyamaka school of Maha¯ya¯na Buddhist thought.He is currently a librarian at Fisher Library at John F.Kennedy Universi- ty in Orinda,California and is engaged in translating and publishing a number of chapters from an Indian Madhyamaka text,Bha¯vaviveka’s Prajña¯prad¯ıpa. MICHEL BITBOL Michel Bitbol is directeur de recherche at the CNRS, at the Centre de Recherches en Epistemologie Appliquee (CREA), which depends on the Ecole Polytechnique,Paris.And he also teaches at the University Paris,and he is a per- manent visiting member ofLinacre College (Oxford).He was born in 1954,and obtained successively an M.D.,a Ph.D.in physics,and a habilitation in philosophy in Paris.From 1980to 1989he worked as a researcher in biophysics.Then from 1990 on he specialized in the philosophy of physics.His main publications in- clude Schrödinger’s philosophy of quantum mechanics (Kluwer,1996),Mecanique quantique, une introduction philosophique (Flammarion, 1996), and Physique et philosophie de l’esprit(Flammarion,2000). JOSÉ IGNACIO CABEZÓN José Ignacio Cabezón is the XIV Dalai Lama professor ofTibetan Buddhism and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He did his undergraduate work at Caltech, with an emphasis in physics, and his doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,in Buddhist studies.He was a Buddhist monk for ten years;six ofthem he spent engaged in the traditional cur- riculum of studies at Sera monastery in South India. He is the author/editor/ translator ofseveral scholarly books and articles,among them A Dose ofEmpti-
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