The Mind & Life Digital Library

For over three decades, Mind & Life has hosted Dialogues and Conversations with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists, scholars, and contemplatives to explore key questions at the intersection of science and contemplative wisdom. Below you will find recordings of these timeless conversations with deep relevance for our world today. The library provides a unique window into the art of interdisciplinary dialogue, while tracing the evolution of the field of contemplative science.

Additional Dialogues are being added to the archive on an ongoing basis.

The Digital Library was made possible thanks to generous donations by The Gaden Phodrang Foundation of the Dalai Lama, the Hershey Family Foundation, and the Morrison Centre.

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Minds, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics
2025|Dialogue 39|Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India

7 sessions12:50 total hours
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2024 Summer Research Institute
2024|SRI 21|Garrison, New York

11 sessions8:04 total hours
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Interdependence, Ethics, and Social Networks
2022|Dialogue 38|Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India

6 sessions3:44 total hours
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Compassion, Interconnection, and Transformation
2019|Dialogue 34|Dharamsala, India

6 sessions3:44 total hours
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Reimagining Human Flourishing
2018|Dialogue 33|Dharamsala, India

6 sessions3:44 total hours
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Botho/Ubuntu: A Dialogue on Spirituality, Science and Humanity with the Dalai Lama
2017|Dialogue 32|Gaborone, Botswana

6 sessions3:44 total hours
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Perception, Concepts, and Self
2015|Dialogue 30|Sera Monastery, Bylakuppe, India

Contemporary Scientific and Buddhist Perspectives

19 sessions17:35 total hours
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Mapping the Mind
2014|Dialogue 29|Kyoto, Japan

A Dialogue between Scientists and Contemplative Scholars-Practitioners

19 sessions17:35 total hours
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Craving, Desire, and Addiction
2013|Dialogue 27|Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India

11 sessions8:19 total hours
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Mind, Brain, and Matter
2013|Dialogue 26|Drepung Monastery, Mundgod, India

Critical Conversations Between Buddhist Thought and Science

27 sessions14:07 total hours
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