Last Updated on March 24, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
The Center of Healthy Minds in Madison Wisconsin was eventually triggered by the paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
About 100 people are working in this center which was founded by Richard Davidson. But are Richard Davidsons papers and his book “Altered Traits “ sufficient to answer all the scientific questions concerning practicing meditation? Certainly no.
Topics like Buddhist meditation practices which are transmitted since 2500 years cannot be investigated satisfyingly by single researchers as Richard Davidson, who received a wake up call only in 1992 by the Dalai Lama the 14. concerning this topic. Therefore, we need also the Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS), Lhagsam Tibetan Meditation Zurich, Rob ter Horst and many more researchers to answer all the relevant questions regarding this topic.