Stanford University : November 5th 2005

Dalai Lama and neuroscientists build bridge
between Buddhism and Western medicine
med.stanford.edu/events/da...index.html
Stanford University School of Medicine, 11/7/05

VIDEO:

: Morning Session :
"A Dialogue between Buddhism and Neuroscience on the Potential for
Common Understanding and the Alleviation of Suffering."
med.stanford.edu/events/da...video.html
Memorial Church, Stanford University

: Afternoon Session :
"Craving, Suffering and Choice:
Spiritual and Scientific Explorations of Human Experience"
med.stanford.edu/events/da...deo_2.html
Memorial Church, Stanford University

Moderated by: Dr. William Mobley, Director of Stanford Neuroscience Institute

Distinguished group of scientists and Buddhist scholars:

* Dr. Carl Bielefeldt, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University

* Dr. Paul Ekman, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco

* Dr. Howard Fields, Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry and Director, Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of California, San Francisco

* Philippe Goldin, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Psychology,
Stanford University

* Dr. Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, Harvard Divinity School

* Dr. Anne C. Klein, Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University

* Dr. Brian Knutson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

* Dr. Helen Mayberg, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University

* Dr. William Newsome, Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford University

* Dr. Mathieu Ricard, Buddhist scholar and monk, French translator for His Holiness

* Dr. David Spiegel, The Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in Medicine, Stanford University

* Ven. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego

* Dr. Alan Wallace, Founder & President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

* Brian Wandell, Isaac and Madeline Stein Family Professor of Psychology, Stanford University


more information:
dalailama.stanford.edu