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Exploring actuality through experiment and experience (online)
A comparison is presented of three approaches to an understanding of `what is actual': modern science, Husserlian phenomenology, and Tibetan Buddhist Dzog Chen. In each approach, experiment is the cen...
Science for monks
This website features an education initiative designed to introduce Tibetan monks to the fundamentals of science, particularly in the fields of physics, math, and genetics. The program organizes annua...
Maitreya project
Website of the Maitreya Project, which is building a 500-foot (152 m) bronze statue of Maitreya Buddha in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, India under the guidance of Lama Zopa Rinpoche. (Steven Weinberger ...
Center for research on Tibet
The Center for Research on Tibet at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) was founded in 1987. Its stated goal is to conceptualize and conduct research on Tibetan history, society, language, ecology/...
Mind and Life Institute
The Mind and Life Institute was created as a result of communication between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists interested in pursuing the interface between science and Buddhism. Since 1987 the Min...
Science, religion, and the human experience
From 2001 to 2003, the University of California, Santa Barbara hosted several prominent scholars, philosophers, and scientists in a series of lectures devoted to the relation between science, religion...
The Dalai Lama : the practices of bodhisattvas
This lecture by Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, was delivered at The Christ and the Bodhisattva Symposium at Middlebury College in 1984. In it, the Dalai Lama discusses the bodhisattva practice...
Buddhist approach to ethics and environment
This lecture by Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, was delivered at the Spirit and Nature Symposium at Middlebury College. He discusses Buddhist perspectives on the environment. (Steven Weinberger...
Destructive emotions
This webcast presents some of the latest research findings on the effects of meditation on brain, body, and emotions based on several studies conducted by Richard Davidson, a professor of psychiatry a...
The Periodization of Tibetan History: General Chronology
This timeline includes dates of influential Tibetan figures and major political eras. Please do not be initimidated by the large number of Tibetan words in romanization. The details of the events c...
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