The Dalai Lama, Arianna Huffington Interview (Video at link)

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The Dalai Lama, Arianna Huffington Interview: His Holiness Discusses Compassion, Science, Religion And Sleep

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/dalai-lama-arianna-huffington-interview_n_1510094.html

Posted: 05/14/2012 1:21 pm Updated: 05/14/2012 4:41 pm

His Holiness the Dalai Lama sat down with Arianna Huffington at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London to celebrate his Templeton Prize, and discuss the importance of a productive conversation between spirituality and science.

The Dalai Lama's role in fostering positive interactions between religion and science is one of the reasons why he was honored by the prize.

As the Templeton Foundation notes: "For decades, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama has vigorously focused on the connections between the investigative traditions of science and Buddhism as a way to better understand and advance what both disciplines might offer the world."

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The Templeton Prize comes with a cash award of $1.7 million dollars, which His Holiness has donated to Save The Children.

Transcript and video at link.

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1. Relevant quote from the past:

“If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality

Not many Christians, even liberal ones, are as open minded.