Mind, Brain, and the Path to Happiness: A Guide to Buddhist Mind Training and the Neuroscience of Meditation, by Dusana Dorjee
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The neuroscience of meditation is, at present, the most promising field ithin the arena of the Buddhism and science dialogue.In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Buddhist scholars Thomas W. Rhys Davids (1843-1922) and his wife Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (1857-1942) inadvertently paved the way for this dialogue by construing Buddhism for their western audience as a "science of mind," praising the Abhidharma ("Buddhist psychology") for its sophisticated analysis of mind and consciousness.8 The first serious attempt to bring scientists and Buddhist scholars to a roundtable took place in 1979 and turned out to be fraught with unforeseen problems of reciprocal misunderstanding: The late cognitive scientist Francisco arela and others organized a conference entitled Comparative Approaches to Cognition: Western and Buddhist," 9 but recognized that the mutual understanding of, and respect for, these two investigative traditions needed a great deal of preparation.The strained conference was, nevertheless, ground-breaking in that it inspired an ongoing dialogue in the form of the Mind and Life conferences ith the Dalai Lama, hich began in 1987.arela s aim as to reinstate firstperson experience as a source of scientific no ledge, and open scientific in uiry to methods such as meditation." 10 Meditation was to become the ultimate research tool.The present work by Dusana Dorjee, cognitive neuroscientist at Bangor University in Wales, is a recent product of the interaction of science and Buddhism.The author is herself an embodiment of the science-Buddhism dialogue, as she self-identifies not only as a scientist, but also as a long-term meditation practitioner and teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Dzogchen.Dzogchen (Tibetan rDzogs Chen, Great erfection ) refers to a specific meditation tradition of the Tibetan yingma School, the first school to be established in the country of Tibet in the seventh century ce.This tradition teaches an approach to meditation that can be understood as nondual, since the practitioner is led to a state in which the dualistic subject-object structure of ordinary experience dissolves.Nondual forms 8.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".