"Can the mind heal the body? The Buddhist tradition says yes - and now that many Western scientists are beginning to agree, these discussions between His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and a group of prominent physicians, psychologists, and meditation teachers could not be more timely. This book is a record of the Mind and Life Conference III, a meeting that gathered together a unique assortment of Buddhist teachers and Western scholars in an attempt to shed new light on the body-mind connection."--BOOK JACKET.

Ethics. --
Three views of virtue / Lee Yearley --
Afflictive and nourishing emotions : impacts on health / Daniel Goleman --
Biological foundations. --
The body's self / Francisco Varela --
The brain and emotions / Cliff Saron and Richard J. Davidson --
Stress, trauma, and the body / Daniel Brown --
Skillful means and medicine. --
Mindfulness as medicine / Sharon Salzberg and Jon Kabat-Zinn --
Behavioral medicine / Daniel Brown --
Emotion and culture. --
The virtures in Christian and Buddhist traditions / Lee Yearley --
The roots of self-esteem : differences East and West --
The nature of awareness. --
Mind, brain, and body in dialogue --
Subtleties of consciousness --
A universal ethic. --
Medicine and compassion / the Dalai Lama.