Dalai Lama & Scientists At Mind & Life Institute Conference; Johns Hopkins & Georgetown co-Host As Georgetown Awards CME Credits
Adam Engle, Chairman and co-founder with the Dalai Lama of the Mind and Life Institute, says the Dalai Lama will join acclaimed speakers from the scientific and contemplative communities to discuss sience and cinical applications of meditation.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) September 4, 2005 -- The Dalai Lama and top scientists
will shed light on an emerging area of science as they participate in “Mind
& Life XIII: The Science and Clinical Applications of Meditation,”
discussing topics ranging from scientific studies to contemplative perspectives.
Held November 8-10 in Washington DC at DAR Constitution Hall, the Mind
and Life Institute with Johns Hopkins Medical Center is presenting the
Georgetown University Medical Center-sponsored conference through which the
Georgetown University Hospital is offering 12-1/2 credits to medical
professionals attending through its Continuing Medical Education (CME) program.
With acclaimed speakers from the scientific and contemplative
communities, the conference will be in dialogue format. The subject matter and
presentation will intrigue medical and science professionals as well as the
general public. The forum will detail breakthrough research efforts on the role
of meditation in maintaining a healthy mind.
Adam Engle, Chairman and
co-founder with the Dalai Lama of the Mind and Life Institute, said, “Meditation
is being used in some treatment of stress, pain and other chronic diseases, but
applications have only touched the surface. The Mind and Life conference will
make a major stride building on the growing interest in meditation in medicine
and biomedical science.”
The November meeting will be the second public
dialogue with the Dalai Lama. The previous 11 private conferences were in India,
Europe and the U.S. since 1987 and seven books have been published about those
discussions. In 2003, The McGovern Institute at MIT co-sponsored the first
public meeting, held at MIT.
More information is available at www.mindandlife.org and www.investigatingthemind.org.
Engle said, “With
sophisticated brain imaging technology, science investigating the brain and mind
is growing exponentially and is where genomic research was decades ago. The
potential applications for the benefit of mankind are plentiful.”
The
Mind and Life Institute, based in Boulder, CO, is a non-profit organization
dedicated to creating a working collaboration and research partnership between
modern science and Buddhism and other contemplative traditions to better
understand the nature of reality and investigating the mind. For more
information visit the websites, www.mindandlife.org and www.investigatingthemind.org or contact Brian Dobson at Dobson
Communications at 203-894-9240.
The Mind and Life Institute, based in
Boulder, CO, is a 501 C3 non-profit organization co-founded in 1987 by the Dalai
Lama, entrepreneur Adam Engle and an acclaimed neuroscientist, the late Franciso
J. Varela, to create a rigorous dialogue and research collaboration between
modern science and Buddhism. The Mind and Life Institute operates through four
divisions: Meetings and Dialogues, Publications, Scientific Education and
Research Grants and Sponsorship. Since 2000, the focus of MLI has been the
creation of a new interdisciplinary field of science that asks and answers the
question: how do we create and maintain a healthy mind? For more information
visit the websites, www.mindandlife.org and www.investigatingthemind.org or contact Brian Dobson at Dobson
Communications at 203-894-9240.
Georgetown University Medical Center is
an internationally recognized academic medical center in Washington, DC, with a
three-part mission of research, teaching and patient care (through its
partnership with MedStar Health). Its mission is carried out with a strong
emphasis on public service and a dedication to the Catholic, Jesuit principle of
cura personalis—or “care of the whole person.” The Medical Center includes the
School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Health Studies, both nationally
ranked, and the world renowned Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. For more
information, visit the websites www.gumc.georgetown.edu and http://cfmi.georgetown.edu/.
Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine is one of the world's premier centers for scholarship, research and
patient care. The university and The Johns Hopkins Health System are separate,
but closely allied, institutions. Founded in Baltimore, they now reach across
the Baltimore Washington area, with additional facilities in China, Italy and
Singapore and partnerships around the world. The university comprises eight
schools, a research and development division called the Applied Physics
Laboratory and a number of institutes and centers. Components of the $2.7
billion enterprise are consistently named at the top of national rankings for
best hospital and best school of medicine, and its faculty consistently wins the
largest share of National Institutes of Health research funds. For more
information, visit the website www.hopkinsmedicine.org/about/.
Note to editors: To
attend conference register at
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