Science and Philosophy in Indian and Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2: The Mind
Conceived and Introduced by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, with essays by John D. Dunne edited by Thubten Jinpa; translation by Dechen Rochard
Wisdom Publications, 2020 576 pages; $29.95
IN 2015, during his opening remarks at the Mind & Life Dialogue at Sera Monastery in south India, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama remarked that the dialogue was not between Buddhism and science, but rather between “Buddhist science and modern science.” With this slight rhetorical gesture, likely unnoticed by most in the audience, the Dalai Lama reframed the dialogue between Buddhism and science.
The phrase “Buddhist science” is a neologism that was coined from this context and is not part of the classical Tibetan Buddhist lexicon. As the Dalai Lama explains in his introduction to the newly published , he distinguishes three distinct domains within Buddhism: science, philosophy, and religious practice. This volume, the second in a four-volume series, anthologizes the discussion around Buddhist science. The purpose of these volumes is to extract the scientific and philosophical). This second volume is dedicated to topics on the mind, and includes chapters on mental factors, the subtle mind in tantra, reasoning and inferential knowing, and training the mind through meditation.
