Einstein sobre el Budismo

"La religión del futuro será una religión cósmica. Deberá transcender al Dios personal y evitar el dogma y la teología. Tendrá que abarcar tanto lo natural como lo espiritual, y deberá estar basado en un sentido religioso que surja a partir de la experiencia de todas las cosas naturales y espirituales como una unidad significativa. El Budismo responde a esta descripción. Si existe alguna religión que pueda satisfacer las necesidades científicas modernas, es el Budismo."

Carl Sagan meets the Dalai Lama

Esto contó Carl en una entrevista acerca de su charla con el Dalai:

Well, when I talk to religious leaders, one thing I always ask them is: What would you do if a fundamental tenet of your religion was definitively disproved by science? And, at least in the West, and especially among fundamentalist religions, the tendency is to say, "Science couldn't possibly," or, "My religion is an absolute truth, and if science gets different answers, too bad for science." The Dalai Lama's answer was: "If science found a serious error in Tibetan Buddhism, of course we would change Tibetan Buddhism." So I tried to push him on this issue. Suppose it was something basic? Suppose, for instance, it was reincarnation? And the Dalai Lama said to me, "If science can disprove reincarnation, Tibetan Buddhism would abandon reincarnation." And then he said, "But it's going to be mighty hard to disprove reincarnation."