The Tibetan Institute in Rikon, Switzerland trains Tibetan Buddhist monks in modern scientific disciplines in the project “Science meets Dharma”, but unfortunately without physiological sensors

Last Updated on February 5, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

The project “Science meets Dharma” is supported by the Tibetan Institute in Rikon, Switzerland, and the Nobel Prize Winners Dalai Lama the 14. and Richard R Ernst:

S.H. Dalai Lama

“Since many years I have been interested in modern science, which has made great contributions to the improvement of the quality of life. I have personally been engaged in dialogues with scientists for many years and have been found it to be extremely useful and enriching. I also believe that modern science can benefit from Buddhist perspectives.

Today, science means a valid method of explaining the observed reality. The well-founded disciplines of modern science are in a way related to Buddhism since Buddhist philosophy also searches and establishes truth through rational analysis, similar to that of science.

The Tibetan Institute in Rikon, Switzerland, has accepted to implement a project of training Tibetan Buddhist monks in modern scientific disciplines and thus further opening the dialogue. The project is called “Science meets Dharma” and will help to provide the infrastructure and human resources needed for such implementation. I believe the “Science meets Dharma” project has great potential and I sincerely hope you will extend all your help to the Institute in its endeavour.”

5 January 2002

The Dalai Lama

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1989

Professor Dr Richard R Ernst

“In today’s hyper-mobile world, intercultural contacts and mutual knowledge of cultures are becoming more and more indispensable. Insights into the Buddhist philosophies of Tibet can be just as instructive for us as it is necessary for Tibetan monks to gain access to Western scholarship. The “Science meets Dharma” initiative is intended to open a door for the Tibetan sages to our occidental way of thinking and our rational handling of the laws of nature. We hope that this will provide a valuable and lasting boost to the West-East dialogue with a view to shaping our common future.”

Professor Dr. Richard R. Ernst
Winterthur, 22. November 2001
Nobel prize in chemistry 1991

https://www.tibet-institut.ch/content/smd/de/index.html

The Tibetan Institute in Rikon, Switzerland, implements a training of Tibetan Buddhist monks in modern scientific disciplines, but unfortunately without physiological sensors. We don t use physiolocial sensors for practicing meditation neither, or not yet on a regular basis.