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[nycaapp] 2/24/05 Tibetan Mind Science Meets Moder

Posted By: Rebecca Curtis
Date: Sunday, 20 February 2005, at 5:58 a.m.

Subject: [nycaapp] 2/24/05 Tibetan Mind Science Meets Modern Neuroscience

The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine presents the

K. J. Lee Fellowship Lecture, 2005

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
Director, Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging &
Behavior University of Wisconsin, Madison

and

Robert A. F. Thurman, Ph.D.
Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Columbia
University

Tibetan Mind Science Meets Modern Neuroscience

Thursday, February 24, 2005
4:00-5:30
Columbia University Medical Center
New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1st Floor Auditorium
Reception to Follow

Professors Davidson and Thurman will discuss the
intersection of ancient Tibetan practices and modern
neuroscience‚s investigation of meditation and affective
control. They will provide an update on recent scholarly
and research progress and on the MIT conference in
September 2003 with the Dalai Lama, Tibetan monks and
neuroscientists.

Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D., Director, Rosenthal Center for
CAM, CUMC

HOSTS: Philip R. Muskin, M.D., Professor of Clinical
Psychiatry, Psychiatry Department, CUMC

Directions to the NY State Psychiatric Institute

1st Floor Auditorium

Walking west on W.168th St. from Broadway, cross the next
N/S street, Ft. Washington Ave., as W. 168th St. turns into
Haven Ave. and curves around the Hammer Building to your
right (#4 on map).

Keep walking west on Haven Ave. to Lawrence Kolb Research
Building (#3, red brick bldg.) at 722 Haven Ave. Enter
lobby, turn right, walk through public atrium facing Hudson
River, turning left to continue walking west via glassed-in
bridge over Riverside Drive, to the new NYSPI building
between Riverside Dr., and the Henry Hudson Parkway (#30).
You will arrive at the 6th floor lobby of the building,
elevators to your right. Take elevator down to 1st floor.
Auditorium is right in front of you as you exit elevators.

Post-lecture reception will be held in the public space
just outside the auditorium.

Biographies

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.
William James & Vilas Professor of Psychology & Psychiatry
Director, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging
& Behavior, and the Laboratory of Affective Neuroscience,
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Richard Davidson received his Ph.D. from Harvard in
Psychology and has been at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison since 1984. Dr. Davidson is
internationally renowned for his research on the neural
substrates of emotion and emotional disorders. He has
published more than 200 articles, many chapters and reviews
and edited or co-edited 13 books. He is the recipient of
numerous awards for his research including a National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Research Scientist Award,
a MERIT Award from NIMH, an Established Investigator Award
from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia
and Affective Disorders (NARSAD), a Distinguished
Investigator Award from NARSAD, the William James Fellow
Award from the American Psychological Society and the
Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the
American Psychological Association. In 2003, he was elected
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He first met
His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1992 and has been helping to
organize meetings between His Holiness and scientists under
the auspices of the Mind & Life Institute on whose Board of
Directors he serves. With the encouragement and support of
His Holiness, Davidson has launched a program of
neuroscientific research on the impact of meditation on the
mind, brain and body.

Robert A. M. Thurman, Ph.D.
Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies
Department Chair, Department of Religion, Columbia
University

Robert Thurman, Chair of the Dept. of Religion at Columbia
University, holds the first endowed chair in Buddhist
Studies in the West, the Jey Tsong Khapa Chair in
Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies. After education at Philips
Exeter and Harvard, he studied Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism
for almost thirty years as a personal student of His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. His special interest is the
exploration of the Indo-Tibetan philosophical and
psychological traditions, with a view to their relevance to
parallel currents of contemporary thought and science.

A recognized worldwide authority on religion and
spirituality, Asian history, philosophy, Tibetan Buddhism,
and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Professor Thurman has
written both scholarly and popular books, and has lectured
widely all over the world. He was named one of Time
magazine's 25 most influential Americans and has been
profiled by The New York Times and People Magazine.

His book, Inner Revolution: Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit
of Real Happiness, was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one
of the best books of 1998. Thurman is the translator of The
Tibetan Book of the Dead, renowned for centuries as a
classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought. His other
books include The Central Philosophy of Tibet, a book on
Buddhist science; Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of
Tibet, which illustrates and celebrates 241 of the finest
examples of 9th-19th century Tibetan art; Essential Tibetan
Buddhism, a prize-winning anthology and introduction to
Tibet; and Circling the Sacred Mountain, teachings on
mind-transformation given while exploring the high
Himalayas. His next book, Infinite Life, will be released
in spring, 2004.

As part of his long-term commitment to the Tibetan cause,
at the request of H.H. the Dalai Lama, Thurman co-founded
Tibet House US in 1987 with Richard Gere, and Philip Glass.
Tibet House U.S. is a non profit organization in New York
City dedicated to the preservation and renaissance of
Tibetan civilization.

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Christian Perring, Ph.D.
Academic Chair, Division of Arts & Humanities, & Chair of Department of
Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College
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