Mind and Life XIV - Dialogue on The Universe in a Single Atom; April-10-2007 (Day 2 of 4; Morning) - Dalai Lama Video (HQ) Teachings on Tibetan Buddhism Podcast

Summary: Cosmology and the Relativity of Space and Time Dialogue Leaders: George Greenstein and Arthur Zajonc In addition to being a scientific autobiography, the Dalai Lama’s book The Universe in a Single Atom: the Convergence of Science and Spirituality highlights those issues he feels are most important in the “convergence of science and spirituality.” These issues and questions form the focus of the Mind and Life XIV meeting, and become the foundation on which a group of scientists develop a deep dialogue with the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholar-practitioners. PARTICIPANTS Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., Vilas Research Professor and William James Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison John Dunne, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Emory University Paul Ekman, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco; Consultant R. Adam Engle, J.D., M.B.A., CEO and Chairman of the Mind and Life Institute, and General Coordinator of the Mind and Life conferences Martha Farah, Ph.D., Walter H. Annenberg professor in the Natural Sciences, Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania George Greenstein, Ph.D., Sidney Dillon Professor of Astronomy, Amherst College Matthieu Ricard, Ph.D., Author and Buddhist monk at Shechen Monastery in Kathmandu and French interpreter since 1989 for His Holiness the Dalai Lama Bennett M. Shapiro, M.D., Biotechnology Consultant Wolf Singer, M.D., Ph.D., Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) Evan Thompson, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Toronto Anton Zeilinger, Ph.D., Professor at the Physics Department of Vienna University and at the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Arthur Zajonc, Ph.D., Andrew Mellon Professor of Physics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Amherst College INTERPERTERS Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., President and chief editor for The Classics of Tibet Series produced by the Institute of Tibetan Classics in Montreal; Adjunct Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University, Montreal Geshe Dorje Damdul, English interpreter for the Dalai Lama; Dharamsala, India Organized by the Mind and Life Institute (www.mindandlife.org) and the Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.