The American comedian Demetri Martin said, ‟I’d like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It’d be called ‘Really Busy Hospital’.”

Until recently, there was little interest in the …

The new version of one of the world’s best selling video games, Grand Theft Auto V has just been released. This game contains unprecedented violence. The player may, for example, drive on the sidewalk and run over pedestrians whose blood …

Recently, I was talking with a nurse, who, like most of her colleagues, is constantly confronted with the sufferings and problems of the patients she cares for. She told me that the new training for healthcare personnel, in order to …

The word empathy means an affective resonance with someone else. If you are moved by the suffering of someone, even though you make a clear distinction between yourself and that person, you suffer because she suffers. You may also feel …

At the end of last week, Plaidoyer pour l’altruisme (The Case for Altruism), a 920 page-book on which I have been intensely working for 5 years, came out in French (the English publication is scheduled for January 2015).

Cooperation, …

Representation of the epic story of King Guesar from Ling, Shechen monastery, Eastern Tibet, June 2013…

In 2005 we visited a remote area of Eastern Tibet, checking on the progress of our Karuna-Shechen projects there and looking for new ways in which to help.

While visiting one of our small clinics, I happened to enter …

Representation of the epic story of King Guesar from Ling, Shechen monastery, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

Representation (2) of the epic story of King Guesar from Ling, Shechen monastery, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

Sacred dances festival, Eastern Tibet, June 2013

People under the rain watching a sacred dances festival, Eastern Tibet, June 2013