PACIFIC WORLD - The Institute of Buddhist Studies

28Pacific Worldgreat discoverers of the past, he declares, “had to battle against the current‘facts’ and dogmas of the learned.” 35The scientific tradition has now joined the Buddhist tradition in itspursuit of understanding the nature, origins, and potentials of consciousness.At this point in history, it may be said that neither embodies arigorous, unbiased, multifaceted science of consciousness. But as scientistsand Buddhists collaborate in the investigation of this phenomenon socentral to human existence, perhaps such a science may emerge to thebenefit of both traditions and the world at large.