The Universe in a Single Atom

"In this book, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, sets out his perspective on the possibility of spiritual cooperation between modern science and religiosity with the goal of alleviating suffering in human life. Drawing on personal experience from many years of religious practice, as well as on knowledge of key ideas and discoveries of modern science, the author discusses the possibility of forming a single viewpoint regarding such, seemingly incompatible, notions as, for example, evolution and karma—thereby laying the groundwork for a holistic view of the world in which science and religion become two equally valid approaches to studying one shared reality."