When the Dalai Lama Meets the NeuroscientistsMore and more, the Dalai Lama has been developing an interest in what modern science has to say about human emotion — or, more particularly, how neuroscience makes sense of meditation and compassion. Partly as a result, Stanford University has launched
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, which is delving deeper into these questions. The clip above features Daniel Goleman, the bestselling science journalist (
Emotional Intelligence and
Destructive Emotions), talking about the Dalai Lama’s work on this front. You can find the
full conversation with Goleman at Bigthink.com, a good resource for thought-provoking video.
Free Tibet!
Paramilitary police carry a Buddhist statue excavated from a destroyed temple in the earthquake-hit Gyegu town in Tibet. Concerns continue to mount of the destruction and looting of Tibetan Buddhist temples by Chinese troops and paramilitary troops.
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