--- Bhaktivedanta Institute wrote:

Dear Moderator,

We will highly appreciate if you can kindly forward to all your egroup
members the following news about a recent publication on �Science and
Religion� in which His Holiness the Dalai Lama has contributed the
Foreword. It will be of interest to your egroup members. The volume
titled as, Thoughts on the Synthesis of Science and Religion, is very
much appreciated by President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. The
volume contains articles on the synthesis of science and religion from
42 most prominent scientists, religious leaders, and eminent scholars
of the world, including 5 Nobel Laureates. The volume was formally
released as a part of annual Indian Science Congress. Thank you.

Regards,

On behalf of Bhaktivedanta Institute

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Recently, President of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam appreciated a
volume � Thoughts on Synthesis of Science and Religion published by the
Bhaktivedanta Institute. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has contributed
the Foreword for this volume. His Holiness writes in his Foreword,
��particularly in the field of consciousness I believe that scientific
research and development should work together with meditative research
and development� one proceeds through experiment with instruments, and
the other, through inner experience and meditation. This is an
excellent example of the potential of a synthesis of science and
religion.�

The volume contains articles on the synthesis of science and religion
from 42 most prominent scientists, religious leaders, and eminent
scholars of the world, including five Nobel Laureates. The volume was
formally released as a part of annual Indian Science Congress.

Some of the other contributors in this volume are Prof. Charles Townes,
a Nobel Laureate in Physics, from the University of California,
Berkeley; Prof. Richard R. Ernst, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry from
Laboratorium fur Physikalische Chemie, Zurich, Switzerland; Mrs. Betty
Williams, a Nobel Peace Laureate from Ireland; Dr. Oscar Arias, a Nobel
Peace Laureate from Costa Rica; Dr. Robert Muller, a Former Assistant
Secretary General of the United Nations; Prof. Freeman Dyson, Emeritus
Professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA;
Prof. George Sudarshan, a particle physicist from the University of
Texas, Austin; Dr. Fred Alan Wolf from the University of California,
Los Angeles; Prof. Amit Goswami from the University of Oregon, Eugene,
USA; Dr. Deepak Chopra from La Jolla, California, USA; Prof. Robert
Shaw from the University of Connecticut, USA, and many more.

Thoughts on the Synthesis of Science and Religion

Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Edited by T. D. Singh & S. Bandyopadhyay
pp.735, Hardbound; 16 Color plates.
ISBN 81-901369-0-9
Price: Rs 1150.00 (Institutional Copy-India)
Rs 555.00 (Individual Copy-India)
US$ 25.00 (Rest of the World)
Shipping and Handling Charges: Rs 45.00 (India)
US$ 5.00 (Rest of the World)

To procure a copy of this volume or to know more about this volume,
please visit www.bvinst.org/publications.html
<http://www.bvinst.org/publications.html>

or write to:

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