Balancing The Mind A Tibetan Buddhist Approach To Refining Attention

by Wallace, B. Alan

• ISBN13: 9781559392303
• ISBN10: 1559392304
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-08
• Publisher: Snow Lion

Summary

"For centuries Tibetan Buddhist contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed rigorous techniques of meditation. B. Alan Wallace explains the methods and experiences of those Tibetan practitioners and compares these with investigations of consciousness by Western scientists and philosophers. Balancing the Mind includes a translation of a classic discussion by the fifteenth-century Tibetan contemplative Tsongkhapa of methods for developing exceptionally high degrees of attentional stability and clarity."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

B. Alan Wallace has authored, translated, edited, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, science, and culture. With fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, he earned a BA in physics and the philosophy of science and then a PhD in religious studies. After teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies to explore the integration of scientific approaches and contemplative methods.

Table of Contents

Foreword
An approach to quiescence	p. 1
Tsongkhapa's vision of reality	p. 29
The cultivation of quiescence, by Tsongkhapa	p. 103
An analysis of quiescence	p. 223
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