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Author Luisi, P. L.

Title Mind and Life : Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages).
Series Columbia Series in Science and Religion
Columbia series in science and religion.
Note Print version record.
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 How Real Are the Elementary Particles?; 2 The Emergence of Complexity; and an Interview with Matthieu Ricard; 3 Toward the Complexity of Life; 4 How Life Unfolds; and an Interview with Richard Gere; 5 The Magic of the Human Genome and Its Ethical Problems; and an Interview with His Holiness the Karmapa; 6 From Consciousness to Ethics; 7 Last Words; About the Mind and Life Institute; Notes; Index.
Summary For over a decade, a small group of scientists and philosophers-members of the Mind and Life Institute-have met regularly to explore the intersection between science and the spirit. At one of these meetings, the themes discussed were both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and the ethics we bring to biotechnology? And how does an ancient spiritual tradition throw new light on these questions?Pier Luigi Luisi not only reproduces this dramatic, cross-cultural dialogue, in w.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Biology -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Buddhist philosophy.
Life -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Buddhism.
Life.
Matter -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.
Religion and science.
RELIGION / Religion & Science.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion.
Other Form: Print version: Luisi, Pier Luigi. Mind and Life : Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010 9780231145510
ISBN 9780231529709 (ebook)
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