Gentle Bridges: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on the Sciences of Mind

What
is the essence of the brain? may possibly pcs ever have realization? Can
compassion be realized? whilst does realization input the human embryo? These
are just a few of the numerous questions that have been mentioned in the course of a historic
meeting that happened among numerous renowned Western scientists and the
Dalai Lama.
Gentle
Bridges

is a chronicle of this striking alternate of ideas.

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