His team's findings suggest meditation and other "contemplative practices" can improve compassion, empathy, kindness and attention. This ambitious four-volume seriesa major resource for the history of ideas and especially the history of science and philosophyhas been conceived by and compiled under the visionary supervision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself.
The Dalai Lama, who has had a lifelong interest in science, first met with Sagan during a visit to Ithaca in 1991. His collaboration with the Dalai Lama made him one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2006, seen left. 28 at Cornell, Ann Druyan, writer and media producer and widow of the late Carl Sagan, reflected on conversations Sagan had with the Dalai Lama on science and religion in the early 1990s. University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson, an expert in how meditation impacts brain functions, poses with a picture of him meeting the Dalai Lama on Wednesday, Apat his office in Madison, Wis. Davidson said the center will be the only one in the world with a meditation room next to a brain imaging laboratory.ĭavidson's research has used brain imaging technology on Buddhist monks and other veteran practitioners of meditation to try to learn how their training affects mental health. In his talk to the Society for Neuroscience seven years ago in Washington, the Dalai Lama described his own exploration of subatomic physics, cosmology, biology and psychology, then drew. The Dalai Lama has made the hillside town of Dharmsala his headquarters since fleeing from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. This weekend, the Dalai Lama will mark the opening of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the university's Waisman Center, where more than a dozen researchers will study the science behind positive qualities of mind. Yesterday I sat in the presence of a spiritual leader and felt the power of a mind that practices contemplative Buddhism and embraces modern science. Since then, Davidson has become a partner in the Dalai Lama's attempts to build a connection between Buddhism and western science. "I couldn't give him a good answer," recalled Davidson, a University of Wisconsin-Madison neuroscientist.
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