The Dalai Lama at Stanford - CCARE Research and Experiments on Compassion

Cool series of talks - much of the first video offers presentations from researchers whose work focuses on compassion in some way or another. The second video focuses specifically on practices that cultivate compassion in us, including their effectiveness. Third video goes further and suggests future avenues for research.

Part One:

This session presents important findings from CCARE's research on the "neural, genetic and behavioral mechanisms associated with compassion, altruism and other pro-social emotions." The panel explores the evolutionary origins of mammalian nurturing as well as neuropsychological and neuroeconomic models of compassion.

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

The Dalai Lama at Stanford:
http://dalailama.stanford.edu/

Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford (CCARE):
http://ccare.stanford.edu/node

Dalai Lama Home:
http://www.dalailama.com/

Charter for Compassion:
http://charterforcompassion.org/

Part Two:

In the first of two afternoon sessions, His Holiness the Dalai Lama participates in a panel regarding compassion and the development of compassion. The panel includes many Stanford faculty members as well as discussions of programs like CCARE, which focuses on how people might be trained to be more compassionate.

These sessions and the morning ones that preceded it were part of the 2010 visit to Stanford by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His visit included this session as well as several other sessions where the Dalai Lama talked about compassion and religion in the modern world.

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

The Dalai Lama at Stanford
http://dalailama.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Part Three:

In the second of two afternoon sessions, His Holiness the Dalai Lama participates in panels regarding compassion, emotions, and action in the modern world. The panels includes Stanford faculty members as well as discussions about humanity in culture. In addition, the panel discusses how character and optimism play a role in the world's future.

This session and the morning one that preceded it was part of the 2010 visit to Stanford by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. His visit included this session as well as several other sessions where the Dalai Lama talked about compassion and religion in the modern world.

Tags: Buddhism, compassion, meditation, contemplation, Psychology, brain, research, education, mind, consciousness, Dalai Lama, Stanford University, CCARE, altruism, pro-social emotions, experiments, evolution, neuroscience, neuroeconomics, genetics, behavior, character, optimism