Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics av Jinpa Thupten

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<B>The second volume in a prominent new series on Buddhism and science, directed by the Dalai Lama and previously covered by the BBC.</B><BR><BR><i>Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics</i> compiles classical Buddhist explorations of the nature of our material world, the human mind, logic, and phenomenology and puts them into context for the modern reader. <BR><BR> This ambitious four-volume series—a major resource for the history of ideas and especially the history of science and philosophy—has been conceived by and compiled under the visionary supervision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself. It is his view that the exploratory thinking of great Indian masters in the first millennium CE still has much that is of interest to us today, whether we are Buddhist or not. These volumes make those insights accessible.<BR><BR> This, the second volume in the series, focuses on the science of the mind. Readers are first introduced to Buddhist conceptions of m