TY - BOOK ID - 7149090 TI - Mind in the balance : meditation in science, Buddhism, and Christianity PY - 2014 SN - 9780231147309 9780231519700 0231519702 0231147309 9780231147316 0231147317 PB - New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Meditation. KW - Meditation KW - Buddhism. KW - Christianity. KW - S13A/0200 KW - S13A/0360 KW - China: Religion--General works KW - China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: ritual and practice (incl. prayers, festivals, ..) KW - Dhyāna (Meditation) KW - Meditation (Buddhism) KW - Meditation (Lamaism) KW - Mental prayer KW - Prayer, Mental KW - Prayer KW - Spiritual life KW - Contemplation KW - Buddhism KW - Christianity KW - Tantric Buddhism KW - Zen Buddhism KW - Meditation - Buddhism. KW - Meditation - Christianity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7149090 AB - By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar ins ER -