Buddhism and Science

by Ed. B. Alan Wallac

Reflecting its wide variety of topics, Buddhism and science is comprised of three sections. The first presents two historical overviews of the engagements between Buddhism and modern science or rather how Buddhism and modern science have definced, rivaled and complemented one another. The second describes the ways Buddhism and the cognitive sciences inform each other, the third address point of intersection between Buddhsim and the physical sciences. On the broadest level this work illuminates how different ways of exploring the nature of human identity the mind, and the universe at large can enrich and enlighten one another. B. Alan Wallace, founder and director of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary study of Consciousness studied physics as an undergraduate at Amherst College and received his Ph.D. in religious studies from Stanford University. Wallace trained for many years as a monk in buddhist monasteries in India and Switzerland and has taught Buddhist theory and practice in Europe and America since 1976.