14 DAY TRIAL // Apparently, these three elements have nothing in common, but that's not exactly true. Even if it sounds pretty far fetched, Dalai Lama was the main speaker at a neuroscientist conference held in Washington DC.
Tibet's spiritual leader tried to create a link between the Western practices in medicine and meditation as it is believed that meditation reinforces certain parts of the brain and could also help in the healing process of a number of diseases. Dalai Lama isn't at his first attempt to persuade brain scientists to study Buddhist practices, as he tried to get his message through in the past decade. He wasn't too successful though and both parties, the western scientific community and Chinese scientists consider that Dalai Lama's participation to this conference was inappropriate for a religious leader.
The conference in Washington was organized by Georgetown University Hospital, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Mind & Life Institute of Boulder, Colo and the number of attendees surpassed 2,500 specialists. A few discussed also the results they had in testing the recovery of patients who have been practicing meditation for as long as 30 years compared to patients who never even considered doing so.