Source: Business Wire
On October 17, 2005 Business Wire reported, "Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader and the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, will participate in a Nov. 5 symposium sponsored by the Stanford University School of Medicine at which religious and scientific experts will explore how the mind works. The daylong program, 'Craving, suffering and choice: Spiritual and scientific explorations of human experience,' will take place at Memorial Auditorium. In addition to the Dalai Lama, participants include Buddhist scholars and scientists from Stanford and other universities. The conference aims to establish a productive dialog between the groups to promote a thorough understanding of the brain and how this awareness can be used to alleviate human suffering... The Buddhists, with their 2,500-year-old tradition of introspective inquiry into the nature of the mind, are thought to have much to offer neuroscience; Western research tools and techniques also may help Buddhists test their insights and better understand the mental states they achieve through meditation."