Dalai Lama's Intro to Buddhism (video)

The beloved 14th Dalai Lama gives an introductory lecture on Buddhism at EmoryUniversity on October 21, 2007. For more information, visit dalailama.emory.edu.

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Dalai Lama: Science saves, solves problems

Science can provide solutions for better future: Dalai Lama

(PTI/DNA) Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama today stressed on use of science while looking for solutions to make the world a better place to live. "While looking for solutions for improving the future, one should give more importance to reality and science rather than adopting anything on the basis of beliefs and prejudice," he said at a convention of legal luminaries from across 71 countries here.

A quote by genius Albert Einstein displays essential Buddhist principles.

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Be Happy Now, Dalai at Emory, Zen in Florida

Dalai Lama to return to Emory University
ATLANTA (AP) - The Dalai Lama is returning to Emory University this fall to hold lectures and work with faculty. Emory officials say the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader will be on the Atlanta campus Oct. 17-19, 2010. Tickets for the events go on sale Friday. See dalailama.emory.edu

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Tibetan Monastics turn to Science

Students in the Emory Tibet Science Initiative taking turns at a microscope. This spring, 91 nuns and monks took a class in accelerated motion, chromosomes, neurons, and the Big Bang (NYTimes/Ajay Pillarisetti/Enlarge image).

DHARAMSALA, India — Tibetan monks and nuns spend their lives studying the inner world of the mind rather than the physical world of matter. Yet, for one month this spring a group of 91 monastics devoted themselves to the corporeal realm of science.

Instead of delving into Buddhist texts on karma and emptiness, they learned about Galileo’s law of accelerated motion, chromosomes, neurons, and the Big Bang, among other far-ranging topics.

Many in the group, whose ages ranged from the 20s to 40s, had never learned science and math. In Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and nunneries, the curriculum has remained unchanged for centuries. More>>

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