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Indian philosophical thought on Prama?`na (Valid Cognition) is a rich archive that merits attention not only for its technical brilliance and variety but also for the ways in which it reverberates with contemporary discussions in science: arguably the 'master discourse' of the modern world. In a spirit of free and open enquiry, characteristic of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's preferred mode of engaging with the world, Tibet House collaborated with the Drepung Monastic University at Mundgod, Karnataka, to organize a Monastic Debate that was both traditional and contemporary.
Tibetan Buddhism has a long tradition of Monastic Debates. This Debate was special in that it drew upon the pre-Buddhist traditions of thought on this crucial question in Logic while also incorporating a perspective that leapt across the centuries: that of contemporary Physics. While the different schools such as Veda?nta, Sa?
