![]() While the volumes on the physical world and mind comprise texts that represent scientific presentations, the forthcoming two volumes will represent philosophical works from Indian Buddhist authors. The multivolume anthology to which this volume belongs was conceived by the Dalai Lama to bring together select texts in translation from the Tengyur, the Tibetan language canonical collection of Indian Buddhist writings. ![]() The aim of this project is not to secularize Buddhism, but rather by selecting Buddhist canonical writings with empirical claims, to include Buddhism within an expansive vision of science. 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. The first volume (2017) was on the physical world and included chapters on sense objects, atomic particles, time, planetary motions, the brain, and fetal development (see Michel Bitbol’s review in the spring 2018 issue of Buddhadharma). ![]() The purpose of these volumes is to extract the scientific and philosophical ideas from Indian Buddhist source literature and present them independently from Buddhist religion. This volume, the second in a four-volume series, anthologizes the discussion around Buddhist science. As the Dalai Lama explains in his introduction to the newly published Science and Philosophy in Indian and Buddhist Classics, Volume 2, he distinguishes three distinct domains within Buddhism: science, philosophy, and religious practice. The phrase “Buddhist science” is a neologism that was coined from this context and is not part of the classical Tibetan Buddhist lexicon. 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. “Delusional Mandala” (series excerpt), 2015. ![]()
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