Dalai Lama Quotes About Evidence

• To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

  Dalai Lama

  Engagement, Authority, Empirical Evidence

• On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Strong, Buddhism

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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