News tagged with tibetan monks
Stanford researcher taps power of cell phones to make music (Video)
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The sound is unearthly—the sort of hypnotic drone you might hear from the chanting of state-of-the-art Tibetan monks. Or a vibration picked up via radio signals from another galaxy.
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Researchers discover ways of integrating treatment of traumatized Tibetan refugee monks
Mar 13, 2009 |
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The Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights (BCRHHR) at Boston Medical Center recently treated many of the large number of Tibetan refugee monks who fled violent religious persecution. These individuals arrived ...
Tibetan monks yield clues to brain's regulation of attention
Jun 07, 2005 |
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University of Queensland researchers have teamed up with Tibetan Buddhist monks to uncover clues to how meditation can affect perception. Olivia Carter and Professor Jack Pettigrew from UQ’s Vision, Touch and ...
Tibetan antelope now listed as endangered
Mar 30, 2006 |
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The Wildlife Conservation Society is praising a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to list the Tibetan antelope as an endangered species.
Brain scans show meditation changes minds, increases attention
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2007 |
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For hundreds of years, Tibetan monks and other religious people have used meditation to calm the mind and improve concentration. This week, a new study shows exactly how one common type of meditation affects the brain.
Researcher uncovers secrets of Kells 'angels'
Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Book of Kells and similarly illustrated manuscripts of seventh- and eighth-century England and Ireland are known for their entrancingly intricate artwork -- geometric designs so precise ...
Researchers: Cyber spies break into govt computers
Mar 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, ...
15th-century painters' remains exhumed
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 21, 2006 |
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The Moscow Patriarchate has kept secret for years the discovery of the remains of an esteemed icon-painter, Andrei Rublev, and his elder colleague.
Investigation detects cyber espionage network
Technology / Computer Sciences
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Information Warfare Monitor - a joint effort of the SecDev Group (Ottawa) and the Citizen Lab (University of Toronto) - detected a cyber espionage network involving over 1,295 compromised computers in ...
Study shows compassion meditation changes the brain
Mar 26, 2008 |
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Can we train ourselves to be compassionate? A new study suggests the answer is yes. Cultivating compassion and kindness through meditation affects brain regions that can make a person more empathetic to other peoples' mental ...
Preserved by ice: Glacial dams helped prevent erosion of Tibetan plateau
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 08, 2008 |
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The Tsangpo River is the highest major river in the world, starting at 14,500 feet elevation and plunging to the Bay of Bengal, scouring huge amounts of rock and soil along the way. Yet in its upper reaches, ...
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