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The Dalai Lama at MIT
By Anne Harrington and Arthur Zajonc
The Dalai Lama at MIT
reveals scientists and monks reaching across a cultural divide to share their insights.
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 compassion a fundamental human emotion, and Western scientists wrong to have neglected it?
The Dalai Lama at MIT shows scientists finding startling support for some Buddhist claims, Buddhists eager to participate in neuroscientific experiments, as well as misunderstandings and laughter.
Those in white coats and those in orange robes agree that joining forces could bring new
light to the study of human minds.
Contact
- Email: aharring@fas.harvard.edu
- Phone: (617) 496-5234
Classes
- HS 171: Narrative and Neurology
- HS 175: Madness and Medicine
- HS 176: Evolution and Human Nature
- HS 177: Stories Under the Skin
- HS 273: Freud and the American Academy
- HS 275: The Minded Body
- HS 278: In Search of Mind
Works
- Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain
- The Placebo Effect
- Reenchanted Science
- The Dalai Lama at MIT
- The Cure Within
