Mind and Life Institute

The Mind and Life Institute (French: the Institute " Spirit and Vie"), is to support a mutual contribution between the Bouddhisme and the Science. It is an association with nonlucrative goal which attempts to explore the relation of science and Buddhism like methodologies in the comprehension of the nature of reality. The institute has among its members, of the highly skilled scientists, and the Buddhist practitioners, of which most known is the Dalaï Lama.

It was founded into 1990 in the United States as an association of section 501 (c) (3) - equivalent of French law of 1901.

Origins

The 14th Dalaï Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is for a long time very interested by science. In 1973, he visited the laboratory of astrophysics of the Université of Cambridge. Ten years later, it went to the conference Alpbach Symposia one Consciousness - it met Francisco Varela there. Thereafter they had several talks. At the time of a visit of Dalai Lama in France, this one then proposed to devote one week to him to Dharamsala in the north of the India.

Varela met itself R. Adam Engle who precisely wished such an exchange. It was the origin of the first week of talks between scientists and current the Dalai LAMA. Following 3rd of these conference the Mind and Life Institute was founded.

The board of directors

The conferences Mind and Life

1987: Mind and Life I

Dialogs between Buddhism & the Cognitive Sciences, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Publication: Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama one the Sciences off Mind ,
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Newcomb Greenleaf, Jeremy Hayward, Robert B. Livingston, Luigi Luisi, Eleanor Rosch and Francisco J. Varela. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

1989: Mind and Life II

Dialogs between Buddhism & the Neurosciences Newport Beach, California, the USA
  • Publication: Consciousness At the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama one Brain Science and Buddhism .
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Patricia Smith Churchland, Antonio R. Damasio, J. Allan Hobson, Lewis L. Judd and Larry R. Squire. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

1990: Mind and Life III

Emotions & Health, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Publication: Healing Emotions: Conversations with the Dalai Lama one Mindfulness, Emotions, and Health ,
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Francisco J. Varela, Joyce McDougall, Jayne Gackenbach, Jerome Engel, and Joan Halifax. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace
  • This exchange saw the initiative of a neurobiologic study of the Buddhist Méditation; it is as to facilitate this project as the Mind and Life Institute was founded.

1991: Conference in Harvard

Book Review: MindScience a conference Spirit-science was also held with Harvard, in March 1991.
  • Publication: MindScience - 1991 , Note of reading
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Daniel Goleman, Robert Thurman, David Bear, Herbert Benson, Steven Mattysse, David D. Poter, Joseph J. Schildkraut, Carl Schwartz

1992: Mind and Life IV

Sleeping, Dreaming, & Dying, Dharamsala, in India of north.

1995: Mind and Life V

Altruism, Ethics, & Compassion, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Publication: Visions off Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examines Human Nature
  • Participants: Tenzin Gyatso, Nancy Eisenberg, Robert H. Frank, Anne Harrington, Eliot Sober and Ervin Staub. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

1997: Mind and Life VI

The New Physics & Cosmology, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Publication: The New Physics and Cosmology: Dialogs with the Present Dalai Lama
  • : Tenzin Gyatso, Arthur Zajonc, David Ritz Finkelstein, George Greenstein, Piet Hut, You Weiming and Anton Zeilinger. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

1998: Mind and Life VII

Contemplative Epistemological Questions in Quantum Physics and Eastern Sciences Innsbruck, Austriche

2000: Mind and Life VIII

Destructive Emotions, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Publication: Destructive Emotions: In Scientific with the Dalai Lama by Daniel Goleman Dialogs.
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson, Paul Ekman, Owen Flanagan, Mark Greenberg, Matthieu Ricard, Jeanne L. Tsai, Francisco Varela. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

2001: Mind and Life IX

Transformations off Mind, Brain & Emotion the Present Madison, Wisconsin, USA

2002: Mind and Life X

Natural The off Matter, Natural The off Life, Dharamsala, in India of north.

2003: Mind and Life XI

Investigating the Mind Cambridge, MY, the USA

2004: Mind and Life XII

Neuroplasticity: Neuronal The Substrates off Learning and Transformation, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, R. Adam Engle, Fred H. Gage, Michael J. Meaney, Kazuo Murakami, Helen J. Neville Matthieu Ricard, Phillip R. Shaver, Evan Thompson. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

2005: Mind and Life XIII

The Science and Clinical Applications off Meditation Washington DC, the USA

2007: Mind and Life XIV

In Dialog there The Universe in is Single Atom, Dharamsala, in India of north.
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, John Dune, Paul Ekman, R. Adam Engle, Martha Farah, George Greenstein, Matthieu Ricard, Bennett Mr. Shapiro, Wolf Singer, Evan Thompson, Anton Zeilinger, Arthur Zajonc. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

2007: Mind and Life XV

Conscience, compassion, and treatment of the depression October 20th, 2007 - University of Emory, Atlanta, Georgia, the USA
  • Present: Tenzin Gyatso, Richard J. Davidson, John Dune, Lobsang Tenzin, Helen S. Mayberg, Charles B. Nemeroff, Robert A. Paul, Charles L. Reason, Zindel V. Segal. Interpreters: Thubten Jinpa and B. Alan Wallace

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