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SCIENCE TODAY
TIBET'S JOURNEY WITH SCIENCE




By Lhundup Dorjee Khangsara
Modern scientific thinking never took its root in traditional Tibet. To be precise, it didn’t even vaguely occupy the mindset of the Tibetan public. In fact, a substantial amount of daily applications in our social life are influenced immensely by the adapted scientific implications. Unfortunately, our pious ancestors never realized the enormous impacts the science have had on our worldly comforts. All the scientifically inspired inventions in the past remained intact without a slightest modification. May be because we were Buddhist, we Tibetans tend to be very contented but contentment must not stop us from keeping apace with the changing world.
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WHEN SPIRITUALITY EMBRACE SCIENTIFIC PATH
By Lhundup Dorjee Khangsara

In a broader context, Buddhist dharma includes all scientific knowledge, and this alone is sufficient enough to lead a devotee to a state of ultimate omniscience. Considering the motivation a true Mahayanist Buddhist has or one is suppose to have, ignoring modern science makes Buddhist culture irrelevant to rest of the world, including the younger generation of Tibetans both inside and outside Tibet. Though it is true that modern science developed first in western part of the world then gradually spread it towards the eastern part of the world. In order to make the two cultures relevant to each other, the only solution is an initiating effort to find a common platform to establish a new system, which will have potentials to benefit human community in general.
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“Tibet’s isolationism had propelled the promotion of Buddha Dharma but it immensely hampered the development of modern science and advent of technologies”.