Dalai Lama Neuroscience Quotes & Sayings

The specific areas of science that I have explored most over the years are subatomic physics, cosmology, and biology, including neuroscience and psychology. — Dalai Lama XIV

On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be. ~ 14th Dalai Lama in his talk to the Society for Neuroscience in 2005 in Washington. — Dalai Lama XIV

Buddhism has long had a theory of what in neuroscience is called the plasticity of the brain. — Dalai Lama XIV