TIBETAN BUDDHISM AND MODERN PHYSICS: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge, by Vic Mansfield, foreword by H.H. Dalai Lama

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TIBETAN BUDDHISM AND MODERN PHYSICS: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge

by Vic Mansfield, foreword by H.H. Dalai Lama

Wonderfully clear and engaging, this book shows how the principle of emptiness connects intimately to quantum nonlocality and other foundational features of quantum mechanics and explores connections between emptiness, modern relativity, and the nature of time. Because of the powerful connections between emptiness and modern physics, the book argues that the interconnected worldview of modern physics also encourages universal compassion. Along with these harmonies, the book explores a significant conflict between quantum mechanics and Tibetan Buddhism concerning the role of causality.

Tibetan Buddhism and Modern Physics: Toward a Union of Love and Knowledge assumes no technical background in Buddhism or physics as it clearly and engagingly addresses the complex issues of dialogue and collaberation between Buddhism and science, revealing connections and differences between the two. Author Vic Mansfield provides an expedition through the heart of modern physics and Tibetan Buddhism--from quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology to emptiness, compassion, and disintegratedness.

This book concludes by responding to the question: "How does this expedition through the heart of modern physics and Tibetan Buddhism apply to today's painfully polarized world?" Despite the subjects' differences and the questions raised in this book, Mansfield argues that when the message of universal compassion accompanies the spread of the scientific worldview, there will be compassionate action in the light of deep understanding--a true union of love and knowledge.

The book's central message is that there is a solid basis for uniting these worldviews. From this basis, the message of universal compassion can accompany the spread of the scientific worldview, stimulating compassionate action in the light of deep understanding--a true union of love and knowledge.

The Office of His Holiness will translate it into both Chinese and Tibetan.

"Readers will surely be rewarded by the light this book shines on the corresponding, but quite different, approaches to reality taken by Tibetan Buddhism and modern physics."--His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Vic Mansfield is a professor of physics and astronomy at Colgate University. Along with a wide range of science courses, he teaches courses focusing on Tibetan Buddhism and Jungian psychology. For nearly four decades, he has practiced and studied with spiritual leaders in the U.S., Europe, and India.