Neuroscientist Spends Summer Teaching Buddhist Monastics
Published: Wednesday, September 4, 2019
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Dr. Ken Paller; translator Tulku Lobsang Khennra; and Jeremy Purcell
It’s common practice for universities to empty out in the summer as researchers go out in the field. Dr. Jeremy Purcell, a research scientist at Maryland’s Neuroimaging Center, did something a little different. Through the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), he traveled to India’s Doeguling Tibetan area to teach Tibetan monks and nuns something about neuroscience.
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