The director of UW-Madison's Global Health Institute traveled to India to lead a five-day conference with the Dalai Lama, parts of which are now available online.
Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison, traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, for a conference titled ""Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence.""
The summit's focus is the relationship between the environment and ethics, issues central to Patz's on campus academic research on meditation and the brain.
""Ecology, Ethics and Interdependence"" will broadcast live via webcast on the Dalai Lama's website until its conclusion on Oct. 21. The material will also be available to stream and download after the conference has concluded.
The event is sponsored by the Dalai Lama's Mind and Life Institute, which works to ""relieve human suffering and advance well-being,"" according to their website.
The Dalai Lama visited UW-Madison in May of 2010 to assist UW-Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson in establishing the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, which seeks to determine how healthy minds develop and to cultivate those techniques in others.
