01 Buddhism & science
Buddhism and Science: A History of Dialogue and the Craft of a Shared Question
How Buddhist traditions and science can collaborate: Mind & Life, translation, research design, education and the limits of claims.
Research library · Volume I
Articles & research questions
Ten in-depth articles with primary sources on meditation, consciousness, compassion, quantum physics, Buddhist texts, tukdam and artificial intelligence.
Reviews of published work and a founding essay from an open initiative. This collection is not a peer-reviewed research journal. Our editorial principles →
10 articles
02 Mind & practice
Meditation and Neuroscience: What Studies Measure and What They Cannot Conclude
How to read EEG, fMRI and neuroplasticity claims about meditation, including attention studies, null findings and methodological limits.
03 Mind & practice
Consciousness from Within and Without: Buddhist Practice and Neurophenomenology
How experiential reports, interviews and neuroscience can inform one another without treating introspection or brain data as complete explanations.
04 Compassion & ethics
Compassion as a Research Question and an Institutional Practice
Buddhist compassion, experimental altruism and research ethics: how to connect care, evidence and an institute’s everyday decisions.
05 Buddhism & science
Buddhism and Quantum Physics: Productive Questions Without False Proofs
Dependent origination, entanglement and the observer: where philosophical comparison helps and where a metaphor becomes an unsupported claim.
06 Texts & heritage
Buddhist Texts in the Digital Age: Building a Corpus That Preserves Context
A research guide to Buddhist digital corpora: canons, manuscripts, translation, provenance, permissions, OCR quality and living traditions.
07 Artificial intelligence
AI and Buddhist Texts: From Persuasive Answers to Verifiable Citations
A practical research agenda for Buddhist-text AI: retrieval, RAG, source checking, evaluation questions, permissions and human review.
08 Artificial intelligence
Could AI Be Conscious — and Could It Become Maitreya?
A philosophical essay on AI consciousness, Buddhist perspectives, the future Buddha Maitreya and the limits of evidence and spiritual authority.
09 Mind & practice
Tukdam and the Scientific Study of Death: Observations, Methods and Limits
A careful guide to tukdam research: the 2021 EEG findings, the 2024 forensic case report, field constraints and respectful collaboration.
10 Compassion & ethics
For the Benefit of Living Beings: A Proposed Research Charter for Matreya
A programme for an open Buddhism, science and AI initiative: plural traditions, volunteers, reproducible methods and responsible technology.
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