Mind and Life XIV (Upcoming Webcast)
Published: Monday, 2 April, 2007
Dialogue on The Universe in a Single Atom with His
Holiness the Dalai Lama
April 9-13, 2007, Dharamsala, India
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 will form the focus of the Mind and Life XIV meeting, and will become
the foundation on which a group of scientists will develop a deep dialogue with
the Dalai Lama and other Buddhist scholar-practitioners. The dialouge will be webcast and availabale for streaming and download from www.dalailama.com.
DAY ONE
April 9, 2007 Part I: The Buddhism-Science
Collaboration and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge: Exposing the Fracture
Points
Dialogue Leader: Evan Thompson
Part II: Atomism, Emptiness, Interdependence and the
Role of the Observer in Quantum Physics and Buddhism
Dialogue Leaders: Anton Zeilinger and Arthur Zajonc
DAY TWO
April 10, 2007 Cosmology and the Relativity of
Space and Time
Dialogue Leaders: George Greenstein and Arthur Zajonc
DAY THREE
April 11, 2007 Evolution, Altruism and the
Fundamental Nature of Human Emotion
Dialogue Leaders: Ben Shapiro, Paul Ekman, Richard
Davidson and Matthieu Ricard
DAY FOUR
April 12, 2007 Consciousness
Dialogue Leaders: Wolf Singer, Richard Davidson and
Evan Thompson
DAY FIVE
April 13, 2007 Buddhist-Science Collaboration, the
Mind-Brain Relationship, and Neuroethics
Dialogue Leader: Martha Farah
Participants
· Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the XIV
Dalai Lama
· Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.,
Vilas Research Professor and William James Professor of Psychology and
Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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
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
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
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)
Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
· Evan Thompson, Ph.D.,
Professor of Philosophy, York University, 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.
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
Interpreters
· 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
