In ancient India, when the Buddha established the Buddhist educational institutions, reality was approached as both outer environment and inner self, the same as in the West. The inner self, however, was chosen as the more important to understand and the more practical to control and engineer to suit human needs. | |||
p. 54-55 | |||
Robert A. F. Thurman |
"Tibetan Psychology: Sophisticated Software for the Human Brain" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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Symposium held by the Harvard Medical School and Tibet House. |
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