Tibetan Buddhist Master Loten Dahortsang: «Buddhism rejects an objective reality» – what can we conclude from this?

Last Updated on December 29, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Loten Dahortsang was born in Tibet. Since 1982 he lives in the Tibet-Institut Rikon in Switzerland. He teaches Buddhism and meditation in Buddhist centers in Europe. At 17:30 in the video Loten Dahortsang says:

«Buddhism rejects an objective reality. The reality is the perspective of the subjective perception».

But has this not the consequence that from a Buddhist perspective reports about near-death experiences are real, and what is objectively and scientifically measured is rejected by Buddhism?

And is not the Buddhist definition of reality neither proofen or disproofen,
it is difficult to proof or disproof,
We don’t know?

And what is about Buddhists from which has been proofen that they suffer from a loss of reality? Do they reject this proofs? What is a loss of reality? Psychosis is often described as a “loss of reality” or a “break from reality” because you experience or believe things that aren’t real:

https://www.heretohelp.bc.ca/infosheet/psychosis

An example for what some call loss of reality, some call it Psychosis is hearing voices or seeing things that other people don’t hear or see.

Do we have here not different definitions of what reality is? Buddhism rejects an objective reality. The reality is the perspective of the subjective perception. But do not scientists define reality is what can be objectively measured? And is subjective perception not often something which is not objectively measurable?

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