Contemplative science : where Buddhism and neuroscience converge / B. Alan Wallace.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2007], ©2007.

vii, 211 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index.

Principles of contemplative science -- Where science and religion collide -- The study of consciousness, east and west -- Spiritual awakening and objective knowledge -- Buddhist nontheism, polytheism, and monotheism -- Worlds of intersubjectivity -- Śamatha : the contemplative refinement of attention -- Beyond idolatry : the renaissance of a spirit of empiricism.