Books

Best-selling authors and experts in the field of contemplative sciences contribute their talents and insights to the Mind & Life library of books. Here you will find a selection of titles documenting the historic Mind & Life Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, along with a selection of recent releases by members of the Mind & Life community. View recent releases »

Mind & Life Dialogues

Each of these books includes an introduction to the subject matter of the Dialogue, the presentations provided by scientists and scholars to his His Holiness, and excerpts from the most intriguing and thought-provoking exchanges following each presentation.

• 2013 Mind & Life Dialogue in Mundgod, India
  

  The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality

  Edited by Wendy Hasenkamp with Janna White
  (Yale University Press)

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  2010 Mind & Life Dialogue in Zurich, Switzerland

  Caring Economics

  Edited by Tania Singer and Matthieu Ricard
  (Picador)

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  2005 Mind & Life Dialogue in Washington, DC, USA
  

  The Mind’s Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation

  By Jon Kabat-Zinn and Richard Davidson with Zara Houshmand
  (New Harbinger Publications)

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  2004 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

  by Sharon Begley
  (Ballantine Books)

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  2003 Mind & Life Dialogue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  

  The Dalai Lama at MIT

  by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc
  (Harvard University Press)

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  2002 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Mind & Life: Discussions with the Dalai Lama on the Nature of Reality

  by Pier Luigi Luisi with Zara Houshmand
  (Columbia University Press)

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  2000 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

  by Daniel Goleman
  (Bantam Doubleday Dell)

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  1997 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogues with the Dalai Lama

  by Arthur Zajonc
  (Oxford University Press)

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  1995 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature

  Edited by Richard J. Davidson and Anne Harrington
  (Oxford University Press)

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  1992 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama

  Edited by Francisco J. Varela
  (Wisdom Publications)

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  1990 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Healing Emotions: Conversations With the Dalai Lama on Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health

  Edited by Daniel Goleman
  (Shambhala Publications)

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  1989 Mind & Life Dialogue in Los Angeles, California, USA

  Consciousness at the Crossroads

  Edited by Zara Houshmand, Robert B. Livingston, and B. Alan Wallace
  (Snow Lion Publications)

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  1987 Mind & Life Dialogue in Dharamsala, India
  

  Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind

  Edited by Jeremy W. Hayward and Francisco J. Varela

  (Shambhala Publications)

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Recent Releases

The field of contemplative sciences is fueled in large part by the published work of Mind & Life Fellows and grant recipients. Here are some recent releases from our community.

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  Murals of Tibet

  A thousand years of Tibetan mural masterpieces are now revealed for the first time in a new limited edition book.

  Thomas Laird, Robert Thurman, Heather Stoddard, Jakob Winkler, Shigeru Ban
  (TASCHEN)

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  Introducing Contemplative Studies

  Louis Komjathy
  (Wiley-Blackwell)

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  Meditation, Buddhism, and Science

  Edited by David McMahan and Erik Braun
  (Oxford University Press)

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  How Emotions are Made

  By Lisa Feldman Barrett
  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

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  Contemplative Social Research: Caring for Self, Being, and Lifeworld

  By Valerie M. Bentz and Vincenzo M. B. Giorgino
  (CreateSpace Independent Publishing)

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  The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

  By Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch and Francisco J. Varela
  (MIT Press)

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  The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer

  by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel
  (Grand Central Publishing)

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  Resources for Teaching Mindfulness: An International Handbook

  Edited by Donald McCown, Diane K. Reibel and Marc S. Micozzi
  Including chapters by Susan Bauer-Wu, Willoughby B. Britton and Rhonda Magee
  (Springer)

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• Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond

  By Nancy Bardacke
  (HarperOne)

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  The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love—Why We Get Hooked & How We Can Break Bad Habits

  Judson Brewer
  Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  (Yale University Press)