The Dalai Lama at MIT

Edited by Anne Harrington

Edited by Arthur Zajonc

    • Contents

    Part I: Orientations

    • Introduction
    • Anne Harrington
    • Neurophenomenology
    • Evan Thompson

    Part II: Attention and Cognitive

    • Understandings of Attention Cognitive Neuroscience
    • Jonathan Cohen
    • Buddhist Training in Advanced Attention Skills
    • B. Alan Wallace
    • Dialogue: Attention

    Part III: Imagery And Visualization

    • Buddhist Perspectives
    • Matthieu Ricard
    • Introspection and Mechanism in Mental Imagery
    • Stephen Kosslyn, Daniel Reisberg, and Marlene Behrmann
    • Dialogue: Imagery and Visualization

    Part IV: Emotion

    • An Adhidharmic View of Emotional Pathologies and Their Remedies
    • Georges Dreyfus
    • Emotions from the Perspective of Western Biobehavioral Science
    • Richard Davidson
    • Dialogue: Emotions

    Part V: Integration and Final Reflections

    • Dialogue: Integration and Implications
    • Reflections on “Investigating the Mind,” One Year Later
    • Arthur Zajonc
    • About the Mind and Life Institute
    • R. Adam Engle
    • Contributors
    • Notes
    • Index
  • Cover: The Dalai Lama at MIT

Anne Harrington is Loeb Harvard College Professor and Professor for the History of Science at Harvard University.

Arthur Zajonc is Professor of Physics at Amherst College.