Caveat emptor: The Dalai Lama's proviso and the burden of (scientific) proof

Religions

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 522-559

  Hogendoorn, Rob ^a  

^a Unaffiliated Scholar ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apologetics; Buddhism; Consciousness; Madhyamaka; Mind; Philosophy; Scholasticism; Science; Tibetan studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903699256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20771444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rel5030522     Document Type: Article

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