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Consciousness At The Crossroads: Conversations With The Dalai Lama On Brain Science And Buddhism Paperback – August 1, 1999

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  • Paperback: 184 pages
  • Publisher: Snow Lion (August 1, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0545227208
  • ISBN-13: 978-0545227209
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3.0 out of 5 starsScience talks, Buddhism listens
By ROBERT L WOODLEY on October 11, 2002
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I found this book to be a bit of a disappointment. I suppose if you want an over-view of scientific thought on the brain, then this might be interesting. The Dalai Lama mostly asked questions and the scientists spoke about science. Only once did a scientist ask the Dalai Lama a point about Buddhism, and then it was only to set him up to be debunked. The scientists just can't accept any view point that is not materialist. They don't even understand other viewpoints except as superstition. So there is no real dialogue.
Actually, I didn't really expect a dialogue when I bought this. I was hoping for some clarity and insight into Buddhist thoughts on consciousness, using Western terminology. No such luck.
Gave it a few stars because everyone was intelligent and articulate.
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4.0 out of 5 starsScience talks, Buddhism is speechless
By Kieran Fox on July 25, 2010
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I have gone through quite a few of the 'Mind and Life' conference proceedings and this is one of the best ones, I thought. A group of neuroscientists and doctors who are really at the top of their field, and in top form here, present the state of the art (at the time the book was compiled anyway - these things change quickly) of modern neuroscience's understanding of memory, psychiatric illness, and various other aspects of consciousness and perception - the Dalai Lama responds, asks for elucidation, and at times presents the Buddhist viewpoint of these same topics. If you're in the field of Pyschology or Neuroscience there won't be much new here, but the presentations are so incredibly cogent and well-done that I greatly enjoyed reading through it all again. It's not true, as one reviewer put it, that the Dalai Lama is only asked a single question - he participates in a quite lively way throughout the book/conference; I think his contribution must be at the very least 1/4 to 1/3 of the book.

Living as I am at the moment in a Tibetan monastery in Nepal, I am very sympathetic to Buddhism, but I have to say that on reading this book I was very grateful after all for taking my undergrad in psych/neuroscience. I don't feel so much that the Buddhist side was just 'listening' and their views simply being dimissed - but when you read through this book, you can see the incredible weight of evidence on the scientific side of these issues, and the incredible paucity of evidence supporting the Buddhist view. This doesn't necessarily mean the Buddhist viewpoints are incorrect, and some of them I support myself despite their 'unscientific' nature.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Blossoming of Buddhism and Cognitive Science
By L. J. Vollmer on February 6, 2011
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Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism is from the 1989 Mind and Life Conference, the second series of talks sponsored by the Mind and Life Institute. The institute is an organization promoting dialogue between the scientific and contemplative traditions. The first series of meetings, published as Gentle Bridges (Shambhala, 1992), provided a broad overview of the different areas that the field of Buddhism and science could potentially impact. The second conference similarly provides more breadth than depth, yet with a bit more focus on cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and meditation. The contributors are from a variety of fields, including neuroscience, philosophy, and psychiatry.

The dialogue recounted in this book lays the foundations for future work in the realm of Buddhism and cognitive science. Some topics covered include the nature and phenomenology of consciousness, mental illness, and notions of the self. Tackling a young field, the discussion lacks systematic analysis and each contributor even seems to speak in isolation at times. Prior knowledge of Buddhism and/or science is recommended, but the content is so interesting almost any reader could find some merit in this book. This work is compelling, but incomplete, an understandable critique considering the book narrates one of the earlier series of many talks.
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