Dalai Lama says wants to continue visits to Taiwan
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, said that despite intense opposition from mainland China, he will continue to visit Taiwan, although he has no intention to talk about political issues during his trips.
Ring road threatens sacred slopes of pilgrims
For centuries, millions of Tibetans have made the arduous pilgrimage to the holy mountain of Kailas, walking 35 miles around its base in a single day to wash away the sins of the world in a symbolic re-enactment of the wheel of life.
Dalai Lama Meets With MIT Scientists
Can concentration be controlled? Can attention be practiced and perfected? These are questions that are of increasing interest today to scientists, but which Buddhist monks have been exploring for thousands of years.
Dalai Lama Meets With MIT Scientists
The Dalai Lama, right, is shown with B. Alan Wallace, president of The Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Consciousness, left, during a conference called “Investigating the Mind: Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works,” at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2003, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
Is Buddhism Good for Your Health?
In the spring of 1992, out of the blue, the fax machine in Richard Davidson’s office at the department of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison spit out a letter from Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
Is Buddhism Good for Your Health?
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The Dalai Lama (R) bends down to watch as technician Choe Dolma…
The Dalai Lama (R) bends down to watch as technician Choe Dolma (C) explains a machine sequencing canine DNA during his visit to the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research September 13, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader is participating in a two-day conference on science, spirituality and human biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in the Boston area.
Photo by Jim Bourg
Tibetan Buddhist Lama Kunga Tenzin
Tibetan Buddhist Lama Kunga Tenzin encounters Watson, a white handed Gibbon ape, during a traditional Tibetan blessing for the animals as well as the newly opened Parrot Jungle Island in Miami.