Mind and Life Institute
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The Mind and Life Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to exploring the relationship of science and Buddhism
as methodologies in understanding the nature of reality. The institute has affiliates including notable scientists, and Buddhist practitioners, the most notable of which is Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
.
The 14th Dalai Lama has been interested in science since childhood. In 1973, he visited the astrophysics laboratory of Cambridge University. Ten years later, he participated to the conference Alpbach Symposia on Consciousness – where he met Francisco J. Varela. They had several discussions later on.
At the time of a visit of the Dalai Lama in France, he proposed him to consecrate a week to him in Dharamsala
in the north of India
. Varela met also R. Adam Engle, who also wished exactly such an exchange. This was the origin of the first week of discussions between scientists and the Dalai Lama. After the 3rd lecture The Mind and Life Institute was founded.
Video recording available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/gyalwarinpoche#g/c/B99CDF90B3832607
, India
Video recording available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/gyalwarinpoche#g/c/B99CDF90B3832607
, Switzerland.
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
as methodologies in understanding the nature of reality. The institute has affiliates including notable scientists, and Buddhist practitioners, the most notable of which is Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...
.
Origins
At the time of a visit of the Dalai Lama in France, he proposed him to consecrate a week to him in Dharamsala
Dharamsala
Dharamshala or Dharamsala is a city in northern India. It was formerly known as Bhagsu; it is the winter seat of government of the state of Himachal Pradesh and the district headquarters of the Kangra district....
in the north of India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Varela met also R. Adam Engle, who also wished exactly such an exchange. This was the origin of the first week of discussions between scientists and the Dalai Lama. After the 3rd lecture The Mind and Life Institute was founded.
Board of directors
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (Honorary Chairman)
- R. Adam Engle (Chairman and Co-Founder)
- Francisco J. Varela (Co-Founder)
- Tendzin Choegyal
- Richard J. Davidson
- Daniel GolemanDaniel GolemanDaniel Jay Goleman is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, and leadership.-Life:Goleman was born in Stockton,...
- Joan HalifaxJoan HalifaxJoan Jiko Halifax is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community...
- Anne Harrington
- Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn and a founding member of...
- Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
- Bennett M. Shapiro
- Ulco Visser
- B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
- Raymond J. Gellein, Jr
- Thupten JinpaGeshe Thupten JinpaGeshe Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. He has translated and edited more than ten books by the Dalai Lama including The World of Tibetan Buddhism , A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus , and the New York Times bestseller...
- Sona Dimidjian
- John D. Dunne
- Diego Hangartner
- Alfred Kaszniak
- Clifford Saron
- Evan ThompsonEvan ThompsonEvan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He writes about cognitive science, phenomenology, and the philosophy of mind....
1987 : Mind and Life I
Dialogues between Buddhism & the Cognitive Sciences Dharamsala, India- Publication : Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind ,
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Newcomb Greenleaf, Jeremy Hayward, Robert B. LivingstonRobert Livingston (scientist)Robert Burr "Bob" Livingston was an American physician, neuroscientist, and social activist.Livingston was born in 1918 in Boston. He completed his undergraduate studies , medical degree , and residency at Stanford University. As a Naval Reserve officer, Livingston served in Okinawa and earned a...
, Pier Luigi LuisiPier Luigi LuisiPier Luigi Luisi is an Italian chemistry professor, who has worked in Switzerland.When he is not doing science, Natural scientist Pier Luigi Luisi looks for the purpose of life within the structure and function of life itself., and extrapolate life's purpose from the activities of living...
, Eleanor RoschEleanor RoschEleanor Rosch is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in cognitive psychology and primarily known for her work on categorization, in particular her prototype theory, which has profoundly influenced the field of cognitive psychology...
and Francisco J. VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
1989 : Mind and Life II
Dialogues between Buddhism & the Neurosciences Newport Beach, California, USA- Publication : Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism.
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Patricia Smith Churchland, Antonio R. Damasio, J. Allan Hobson, Lewis L. Judd and Larry R. Squire. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
1990 : Mind and Life III
Emotions & Health Dharamsala, India- Publication : Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health,
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Francisco J. VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
, Joyce McDougallJoyce McDougallJoyce McDougall was a New Zealand-French psychoanalyst.McDougall wrote four major books in the field of psychoanalysis: Plea for a Measure of Abnormality , In Theatre of the Mind: Illusion and Truth On the Psychoanalytical Stage , Theatre of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic...
, Jayne GackenbachJayne GackenbachJayne Gackenbach is a writer and dream researcher whose focus is lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness. She was trained as an experimental psychologist and went on to research at the University of Northern Iowa for 11 years before immigrating to Canada...
, Jerome Engel and Joan HalifaxJoan HalifaxJoan Jiko Halifax is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics... - From this exchange was born the initiative of a neurobiological study of Buddhist meditation; this is also to facilitate this project that was founded the Mind and Life Institute.
1992 : Mind and Life IV
Sleeping, Dreaming, & Dying Dharamsala, India- Publication : Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama,
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Jerome Engel, Jayne GackenbachJayne GackenbachJayne Gackenbach is a writer and dream researcher whose focus is lucid dreaming and other altered states of consciousness. She was trained as an experimental psychologist and went on to research at the University of Northern Iowa for 11 years before immigrating to Canada...
, Joan HalifaxJoan HalifaxJoan Jiko Halifax is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community...
, Joyce McDougallJoyce McDougallJoyce McDougall was a New Zealand-French psychoanalyst.McDougall wrote four major books in the field of psychoanalysis: Plea for a Measure of Abnormality , In Theatre of the Mind: Illusion and Truth On the Psychoanalytical Stage , Theatre of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic...
, Charles TaylorCharles Taylor (philosopher)Charles Margrave Taylor, is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec best known for his contributions in political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and in the history of philosophy. His contributions to these fields have earned him both the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the...
, Francisco VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
1995 : Mind and Life V
Altruism, Ethics, & Compassion Dharamsala, India- Publication : Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Nancy Eisenberg, Robert H. FrankRobert H. FrankRobert H. Frank is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and a Professor of Economics at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He contributes to the "Economic View" column, which appears every fifth Sunday in The New York Times.-Career:Frank...
, Anne Harrington, Elliott SoberElliott SoberElliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at University of Wisconsin–Madison. Sober is noted for his work in philosophy of biology and general philosophy of science. Sober taught for one year at Stanford University and has...
and Ervin StaubErvin StaubErvin Staub is a Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the Founding Director of the Doctoral program on the Psychology of Peace and Violence. He is famous for his works on helping behavior and altruism, and on the psychology of mass violence and...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
1997 : Mind and Life VI
The New Physics & Cosmology Dharamsala, India- Publication : The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Arthur ZajoncArthur ZajoncArthur Guy Zajonc is a professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is also a noted anthroposophist who served as the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America...
, David FinkelsteinDavid FinkelsteinDavid Ritz Finkelstein is currently an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Finkelstein obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. From 1964 to 1976, he was professor of physics at Yeshiva University.In 1958 Charles W...
, George Greenstein, Piet HutPiet HutPiet Hut is a Dutch astrophysicist who has made his career in the United States. Hut is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was born in Utrecht in The Netherlands....
, Tu Wei-mingTu Wei-mingTu Weiming , b.1940, is an ethicist and a New Confucian. He is Lifetime Professor of Philosophy and founding Dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University...
and Anton ZeilingerAnton ZeilingerAnton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist. He is currently professor of physics at the University of Vienna, previously University of Innsbruck. He is also the director of the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
1998 : Mind and Life VII
Epistemological Questions in Quantum Physics and Eastern Contemplative Sciences Innsbruck, Austria- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Arthur ZajoncArthur ZajoncArthur Guy Zajonc is a professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is also a noted anthroposophist who served as the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America...
and Anton ZeilingerAnton ZeilingerAnton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist. He is currently professor of physics at the University of Vienna, previously University of Innsbruck. He is also the director of the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
2000 : Mind and Life VIII
Destructive Emotions Dharamsala, India- Publication : Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama par Daniel Goleman.
- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Daniel GolemanDaniel GolemanDaniel Jay Goleman is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, and leadership.-Life:Goleman was born in Stockton,...
, Richard J. Davidson, Paul EkmanPaul EkmanPaul Ekman is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He has been considered one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century...
, Owen FlanaganOwen FlanaganOwen Flanagan, Ph.D. is the James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. Flanagan has done work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, ethics, contemporary ethical theory, moral psychology, as well as Buddhist and...
, Mark Greenberg, Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Jeanne TsaiJeanne TsaiJeanne Tsai is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and director of the . Her research focuses on cultural influences on basic psychological and social processes related to emotion. She was born to Taiwanese immigrants....
, Francisco VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
2001 : Mind and Life IX
Transformations of Mind, Brain & Emotion Madison, Wisconsin, USA- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, Paul EkmanPaul EkmanPaul Ekman is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He has been considered one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century...
, Jon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-ZinnJon Kabat-Zinn is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Master Seung Sahn and a founding member of...
, Michael MerzenichMichael MerzenichMichael M. Merzenich is a professor emeritus neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip...
, Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Francisco VarelaFrancisco VarelaFrancisco Javier Varela García , was a Chilean biologist, philosopher and neuroscientist who, together with his teacher Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology.-Biography:...
, Antoine Lutz. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
2002 : Mind and Life X
The Nature of Matter, The Nature of Life Dharamsala, India- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Arthur ZajoncArthur ZajoncArthur Guy Zajonc is a professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is also a noted anthroposophist who served as the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America...
, Michel BitbolMichel BitbolMichel Bitbol is a French researcher in philosophy of science, born on March 12, 1954.He is "Directeur de recherche" at CNRS, in the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée of École polytechnique ....
, Steven ChuSteven ChuSteven Chu is an American physicist and the 12th United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research at Bell Labs in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997, along with his scientific colleagues Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and...
, Ursula GoodenoughUrsula GoodenoughUrsula W. Goodenough is a Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of the best selling book Sacred Depths of Nature...
, Eric LanderEric LanderEric Steven Lander is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He is co-chair of U.S...
, Pier Luigi LuisiPier Luigi LuisiPier Luigi Luisi is an Italian chemistry professor, who has worked in Switzerland.When he is not doing science, Natural scientist Pier Luigi Luisi looks for the purpose of life within the structure and function of life itself., and extrapolate life's purpose from the activities of living...
, Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Antoine Lutz. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
2003 : Mind and Life XI
Investigating the Mind Cambridge, MA, USA2004 : Mind and Life XII
Neuroplasticity: The Neuronal Substrates of Learning and Transformation Dharamsala, India- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, R. Adam Engle, Fred H. Gage, Michael J. Meaney, Kazuo Murakami, Helen J. Neville Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Phillip R. Shaver, Evan ThompsonEvan ThompsonEvan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He writes about cognitive science, phenomenology, and the philosophy of mind....
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
2005 : Mind and Life XIII
The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation Washington DC, USA2007 : Mind and Life XIV
A Dialogue on The Universe in a Single Atom Dharamsala, India- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, John DunneJohn DunneJohn Dunne may refer to:*John Dunne *John Gregory Dunne , American author*John William Dunne , British engineer and author of An Experiment with Time...
, Paul EkmanPaul EkmanPaul Ekman is a psychologist who has been a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions. He has been considered one of the 100 most eminent psychologists of the twentieth century...
, R. Adam Engle, Martha FarahMartha FarahMartha Farah is a cognitive neuroscience researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked on an unusually wide range of topics; the citation for her lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science states that “Her studies on the topics of mental imagery, face...
, George Greenstein, Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Bennett M. Shapiro, Wolf Singer, Joan HalifaxJoan HalifaxJoan Jiko Halifax is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community...
, Evan ThompsonEvan ThompsonEvan Thompson is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He writes about cognitive science, phenomenology, and the philosophy of mind....
, Anton ZeilingerAnton ZeilingerAnton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist. He is currently professor of physics at the University of Vienna, previously University of Innsbruck. He is also the director of the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences...
, Arthur ZajoncArthur ZajoncArthur Guy Zajonc is a professor of physics at Amherst College in Massachusetts. He is also a noted anthroposophist who served as the General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
Video recording available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/gyalwarinpoche#g/c/B99CDF90B3832607
2007 : Mind and Life XV
Mindfulness, Compassion, and the Treatment of Depression October 20, 2007 — Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia- Participants : Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, John DunneJohn DunneJohn Dunne may refer to:*John Dunne *John Gregory Dunne , American author*John William Dunne , British engineer and author of An Experiment with Time...
, Geshe Lobsang Tenzin (Negi), Helen S. MaybergHelen S. MaybergHelen S. Mayberg, M.D. was born in 1956 in California. She is an American neurologist.Dr. Mayberg is known in particular for her work delineating abnormal brain function in patients with major depression using functional neuroimaging...
, Charles B. Nemeroff, Robert A. Paul, Charles L. Raison, Zindel V. SegalZindel V. SegalZindel V. Segal is a cognitive psychologist, a specialist on depression and one of the founders of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy . A professor of psychiatry at University of Toronto, Segal combines mindfulness with conventional cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches patients to observe...
. Interprets: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
2009 : Mind and Life XVIII
Attention, Memory and the Mind: A Synergy of Psychological, Neuroscientific, and Contemplative Perspectives with His Holiness The Dalai Lama April 6–10, 2009 — DharamsalaDharamsala
Dharamshala or Dharamsala is a city in northern India. It was formerly known as Bhagsu; it is the winter seat of government of the state of Himachal Pradesh and the district headquarters of the Kangra district....
, India
- Participants: Tenzin Gyatso, David E. MeyerDavid E. MeyerDavid E. Meyer is a Professor at the University of Michigan, where he is currently the Chair of the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience area of the Psychology Department. He received a B.A. in Psychology from Wittenberg University in 1964. He received an M.A. in Mathematics in 1966 and a Ph.D...
, B. Alan WallaceB. Alan WallaceB. Alan Wallace is an American author, translator, teacher, researcher, interpreter, and Buddhist practitioner interested in the intersections of consciousness studies and scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics...
, Anne TreismanAnne TreismanAnne Marie Treisman FRS is a psychologist currently at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. She researches visual attention, object perception, and memory. One of her most influential ideas is the feature integration theory of attention, first published with G. Gelade in 1980...
, Rupert GethinRupert GethinDr. Rupert Mark Lovell Gethin is a Lecturer in Indian Religions in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies and codirector of the Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol, and president of the Pali Text Society...
, Adele DiamondAdele DiamondAdele Diamond is one of the founders of the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She holds the Canada Research Chair Tier 1 Professorship in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of British Columbia , Vancouver...
, Amishi Jha, Clifford Saron, Elizabeth Phelps, Shaun GallagherShaun GallagherShaun Gallagher is an American philosopher. He holds the Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis...
. Interprets: Geshe Thupten JinpaGeshe Thupten JinpaGeshe Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. He has translated and edited more than ten books by the Dalai Lama including The World of Tibetan Buddhism , A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus , and the New York Times bestseller...
Video recording available here: http://www.youtube.com/user/gyalwarinpoche#g/c/B99CDF90B3832607
2009 : Mind and Life XIX
Educating World Citizens for the 21st Century: Educators, Scientists and Contemplatives Dialogue on Cultivating a Healthy Mind, Brain and Heart October 8–9, 2009 — Washington D.C., USA- Participants: Tenzin Gyatso, Marian Wright EdelmanMarian Wright EdelmanMarian Wright Edelman is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund.-Early years:...
, Daniel GolemanDaniel GolemanDaniel Jay Goleman is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, specializing in psychology and brain sciences. He is the author of more than 10 books on psychology, education, science, and leadership.-Life:Goleman was born in Stockton,...
, Richard DavidsonRichard DavidsonRichard J. Davidson is professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.-Early life and Education:Born in Brooklyn, Richard "Richie" Davidson attended Midwood High School...
, Linda Lantieri, Peter L. Benson, Martin Brokenleg, Ronald E. Dahl, Linda Darling-HammondLinda Darling-HammondLinda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education, where she launched the , the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, and the . Darling-Hammond is author or editor of more than a dozen books and more than 300 articles on...
, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Nancy Eisenberg, R. Adam Engle, Mark Greenberg, Joan HalifaxJoan HalifaxJoan Jiko Halifax is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community...
, Takao Hensch, Thupten JinpaGeshe Thupten JinpaGeshe Thupten Jinpa has been a principal English translator to the Dalai Lama since 1985. He has translated and edited more than ten books by the Dalai Lama including The World of Tibetan Buddhism , A Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus , and the New York Times bestseller...
, Anne C. KleinAnne C. KleinAnne Carolyn Klein is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas and founding director and resident teacher at Dawn Mountain, a Tibetan temple, community center and research institute....
, Kathleen McCartney, Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Lee ShulmanLee ShulmanLee S. Shulman is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the study of teacher education, assessment of teaching, and education in the fields of medicine, science and mathematics...
.
2010 : Mind and Life XX
Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems: Dialogue between Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences April 9–11, 2010 — ZurichZürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland.
- Participants: Tenzin Gyatso, Thupten Jinpa, Ernst FehrErnst FehrErnst Fehr is an economist from Austria. He is Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research and chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland...
, William Harbaugh, Richard LayardRichard LayardRichard Layard, Baron Layard is a British economist. He was founder-director in 1990 of, and is a current programme director at, the Centre for Economic Performance at the...
, Tania SingerTania SingerTania Singer is the director of the Department of Social Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany...
, Richard DavidsonRichard DavidsonRichard J. Davidson is professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.-Early life and Education:Born in Brooklyn, Richard "Richie" Davidson attended Midwood High School...
, Sanjit Bunker RoyBunker RoySanjit 'Bunker' Roy is an Indian social activist and educator. In 1972 he founded the Barefoot college in Tilonia, Rajasthan. The Indian non-governmental organization was registered as the Social Work and Research Centre...
, William George, Antoinette Hunziker-Ebneter, Arthur Vayloyan, Matthieu RicardMatthieu RicardMatthieu Ricard is a French Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.Born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, France, he is the son of the late Jean-François Revel , a renowned French philosopher, and grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles...
, Roshi Joan HalifaxJoan HalifaxJoan Jiko Halifax is a Zen Buddhist roshi, anthropologist, ecologist, civil rights activist, hospice caregiver, and the author of several books on Buddhism and spirituality. She currently serves as abbot and guiding teacher of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a Zen Peacemaker community...
, John DunneJohn DunneJohn Dunne may refer to:*John Dunne *John Gregory Dunne , American author*John William Dunne , British engineer and author of An Experiment with Time...
, Gert Scobel, Daniel BatsonDaniel BatsonC. Daniel Batson is an American social psychologist. He holds both doctoral degrees in Theology and Psychology . He obtained his doctorate under John Darley and has taught at the University of Kansas...
, Joan Silk, Diego Hangartner.
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- Audio Interview on http://www.buddhistgeeks.com/2009/05/bg-122-the-evolution-of-the-mind-and-life-dialogues/ with R. Adam Engle on Buddhist Geeks
- Free video recording of the eighteenth and fourteenth Mind and Life Dialogues