Yeshe Dhonden, the foremost Tibetan doctor in the world, died on November 26. He was 93.
Billionaire donates $100 million to compassion research after conversation with Dalai Lama
The research will explore how to cultivate empathy and compassion in medical professionals.
A Neurosurgeon Working with the Suffering Mind
As a Zen priest and a neurosurgeon, Dr. Patrick Codd investigates the truth of suffering on a daily basis.
Helping, Fixing, or Serving?
“Fixing and helping create a distance between people, but we cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected.”
Mindfulness is the Best Medicine
Medicine Buddha. Photo by/via geraldford.
After 13 years as a Buddhist nun, Sister Dang Nghiem looks back on her medical career and realizes monastic practice and medicine aren’t that different.
A Few Words Before They Drag Me Away
In and out of hospital since childhood, Diana Atkinson on a life cut to pieces.
Intimate Distances
Photo via pixabay.Photo via pixabay.Speculations on the nature of self, other, boundary and embodiment by the great cognitive scientist and Buddhist practitioner Francisco J. Varela, written after undergoing a liver transplant. The scene is viewed from the side. The patient is lying on his half-raised hospital bed. Tubes, sutures and drains cover his body from nose to […]
Thoughts about Consciousness while Cutting in the Brain
Novelist Joseph McElroy watches Neurosurgeon Werner Doyle at work in the operating room, and together they ponder the mystery of brain and mind.
The Lama in the Lab: Neuroscience and Meditation
Photo by Jesse Orrico.Daniel Goleman reports on the dialog between science and Buddhism, especially on how neuroscientists are measuring the effects of meditation.
In Defense of Western Medicine
At what time and place in history would you choose to be seriously ill?