Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/01
By Shih Hsiu-chuan

Nobel laureate Lee Yuan-tseh (left)

Taipei, Nov.1 (CNA) A group of Taiwanese scientists led by Nobel laureate Lee Yuan-tseh (李遠哲) attended the opening ceremony of a three-day dialogue on quantum mechanics in Buddhism with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India Thursday.

Having discussed similar issues with scientists from the West and India on various occasions over the decades, the Dalai Lama in his opening remarks said this would be the first time he has engaged in such a dialogue with scientists mainly from the Chinese community.

The Dalai Lama went on to say that he hoped the dialogue would serve two purposes — expand the field of scientific research to include the study of the inner mind and promote the role of compassion, which some scientists believe is basic human nature, in the development of scientific research.

All religions carry the message of love, forgiveness, tolerance, and self-discipline, but religion has limited impact in promoting the inner values of humanity, partly because it is often used to create division or to justify killing, the Dalai Lama said.    [FULL  STORY]