Mind & Life Fellows are distinguished leaders in their respective field who have made significant contributions to the mission and vision of the Mind & Life Institute and more broadly to contemplative sciences, studies, and practice through her/his/their scholarship, activities, and influence. See below for more information, including the history of the program, types of Mind …
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Board of Directors and Founders
Board of Directors Founders Founding Stewards Former Board Chairs Former Board Members (chronological order)Adam Engle Francisco VarelaAlan WallaceElaine Jackson Richie DavidsonDaniel GolemanJon Kabat-ZinnAnne HarringtonPaul Ekman Matthieu RicardArthur ZajoncJohn DunneRoshi Joan HalifaxUlco VisserBennet ShapiroDon MorrisonTania SingerDiana Chapman WalshMark BertoliniRaymond ‘Rip’ GelleinBarry HersheyConnie KemmererCarolyn JacobsMartin DavidsonJack KornfierldThupten Jinpa Tenzin Chogyal (Ngari Rinpoche), Honorary Past Presidents Adam Engle, 1991-2011Al Kaszniak (interim), …
George Greenstein
George Greenstein, PhD, is the Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy at Amherst College. He received his BS from Stanford and his PhD from Yale, both in physics. Initially his interests centered on research in theoretical astrophysics, but later they shifted to writing. He is the author of numerous works interpreting science for nonscientists. His first …
The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
ORDER NOW Edited by Wendy Hasenkamp with Janna White (Yale University Press) ISBN: 9780300218084 In 2013, during a landmark Mind & Life dialogue at a Tibetan monastery in southern India, with an audience of thousands of monks and nuns, the Dalai Lama gathered with leading scientists, philosophers and monastics for in-depth discussions on the nature of …
An in-depth look at a Mind & Life Think Tank on Abrahamic traditions
To date, the traditions and techniques that have been most substantively researched in the field of contemplative science have largely derived from Buddhism and Buddhist-inspired movements. While there have been tremendous advances and developments due to this collaboration—indeed there would be no field without it—a natural consequence of this specific alliance is that insights from …
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The New Physics and Cosmology
Dialogues with the Dalai Lama PURCHASE NOW by Arthur Zajonc (Oxford University Press) ISBN: 9780195159943 What happens when the Dalai Lama meets with leading physicists and a historian? This book is the carefully edited record of the fascinating discussions at a Mind & Life conference in which five leading physicists and a historian (David Finkelstein, …
The Dalai Lama at MIT
PURCHASE NOW by Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc (Harvard University Press) ISBN: 0674023196 Is there any substance to monks’ claims that meditation can provide astonishing memories for words and images? Is there any neuroscientific evidence that meditation will help you pay attention, think better, control and even eliminate negative emotions? Are Buddhists right to make …
Books
Bestselling 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. 2021 Mind & Life Conversation (Online) A Future We Can Love:How …
The Dalai Lama’s Conjecture
A preview of Evan Thompson’s new book, Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience, Meditation, and Philosophy
The Bright Knight of the Soul
How a 13th-century myth illuminates the contemporary mission of Mind & Life
