Many religious leaders find themselves at odds with science, but the head of Tibetan Buddhism is a notable exception. Jonathan Knight meets a neurologist whose audience with the Dalai Lama helped to explain why. One of the fust things people discoveiwhen they meet His Holiness the Dalai Lama is that the head of Tibetan Buddhism likes a good laugh "He jokes all the time," says Fred Gage, a neuro-scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in la Jolla, California, who met the spiritual leader for the first time in October "He has a great sense of humour."
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