His Holiness and other participants at the conference
His Holiness the Dalai Lama returned from the US to join 12 prominent Tibetan Buddhist scholars, world renowned scientists and researchers for the 27th Mind and Life Conference – Craving Desire and Addiction at Tsuklakhang, his exile residence in Dharamsala. During the opening session on October 28 the Dalai Lama spoke about desire and controlling hatred and anger in order to protect ourselves from violence.
The Mind and Life Institute brought the scholars together for the five day conference and issued a statement: “By bringing contemplative practitioners and scholars from Buddhist and Christian traditions together with a broad array of scientific researchers in the fields of desire and addiction, hopefully new understandings will arise that may ultimately lead to improved treatment of the root causes of craving and its many manifestations.”
Participants included Dr Kent Berridge, Psychology and Neuroscience Professor at the University of Michigan; Geshe Thupten Jinpa, His Holiness’s principal English translator and Nora Volkow, Director ofthe National Institute on Drug Abuse, US. They all will speak on different related subjects during the conference. Nearly two hundred people, mostly Tibetan monks, doctors and students of Men-Tse-Khang Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute were also present at the conference.
There will be live webcasts of the conference on dalailama.com.
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