Mind & Life Institute

The Mind & Life Institute, according to its website, is a "non-profit organization that seeks to understand the human mind and the benefits of contemplative practices through an integrated mode of knowing that combines first person knowledge from the world’s contemplative traditions with methods and findings from contemporary scientific inquiry. "

Arthur Zajonc was appointed as the New President of the Mind & Life Institute (as of November 2011)

Board
Accessed January 2012:


 * R. Adam Engle - Chairman and Co-Founder
 * Richard J. Davidson - University of Wisconsin, Madison
 * Raymond J. Gellein, Jr. - RBG Capital Advisors, LLC
 * Daniel Goleman - Psychologist, Author
 * Joan Halifax - Upaya Zen Center
 * Anne Harrington - Harvard University
 * Jon Kabat-Zinn - University of Massachusetts Medical School
 * Thupten Jinpa Langri - Institute for Tibetan Classics
 * Bennett M. Shapiro - Merck Research Laboratories (Retired)

Honorary Board members include:
 * His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama - Honorary Chairman
 * Francisco J. Varela - Co-Founder (1946-2001)

Current Lifetime Emeritus Board members include:
 * Tenzin Choegyal - Dharamsala, India
 * B. Alan Wallace - The Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

Program & Research Council Members
Accessed January 2012:


 * Sona Dimidjian - University of Colorado
 * John D. Dunne - Emory University
 * Diego Hangartner - Chief Operating Officer, Mind & Life Institute
 * Anne Harrington - Harvard University
 * Alfred Kaszniak - Chief Academic Officer, Mind & Life Institute; University of Arizona
 * Matthieu Ricard - Shechen Monastery
 * Clifford Saron - University of California, Davis
 * Evan Thompson - University of Toronto

External resources
URL: http://www.mindandlife.org