I see Buddhism and science as two ways of approaching wisdom. Buddhism studies suffering and the end of suffering. I would say that any aspect of science that studies this is also Buddhism. In general, however, science studies questions that the Buddha warned us are...
While Buddhist civilizations did not give birth to modern science, Buddhism can justifiably be called the “Science of the Mind”, as the Dalai Lama has done. That is because the entirety of one’s Buddhist training can be thought of as repeated applications of the...
“We prefer instruments that look deep inside the mind.” (Context: Buddhism’s comfort with modern science.) You may ask, if Buddhism was so comfortable with science, why didn’t they develop the fields of physics or chemistry or biology, and why didn’t...
“They are here to conduct the double-blind experiment.” The spirit of inquiry is one of the most important aspects of Buddhist practice. We have seen earlier that, “investigation of phenomena” (dhamma vicaya) is one of the seven factors of...
The first time I saw the 14th Dalai Lama share a stage with scientists was in 2009, at Stanford University, and it was not what I expected. He sat occupying center stage surrounded by prominent scientists. I saw the way he engaged with the scientists, and...
