{"id":691,"date":"2022-09-21T05:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=691"},"modified":"2022-09-21T05:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T05:31:22","slug":"visions-of-compassion-western-scientists-and-tibetan-buddhists-examine-human-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/21\/visions-of-compassion-western-scientists-and-tibetan-buddhists-examine-human-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/9-B.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-692\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/9-B.jpg 267w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/9-B-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book examines how Western behavioral science\u2015which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature\u2015holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human potential for altruism, empathy, and compassion. Resulting from a meeting between the Dalai Lama, leading Western scholars, and a group of Tibetan monks, this volume includes excerpts from these extraordinary dialogues as well as engaging essays exploring points of difference and overlap between the two perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published by OUP USA ,2002<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature This book examines how Western behavioral science\u2015which has generally focused on negative aspects of human nature\u2015holds up to cross-cultural scrutiny, in particular the Tibetan Buddhist celebration of the human<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}