Buddhism: a religion or science of mind? - a podcast by ABC Radio

Does it really matter if your spiritual experience is confirmed by science? Are they really measuring the same thing? Dr Alan Wallace would say yes, but the expert on Tibetan Buddhism rejects the idea that religious belief needs scientific validation. The former monk talks about his spiritual journey and his problem with the scaled-down, ethnocentric "fillet Buddhism" that some popular Western thinkers - like Sam Harris - espouse.

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