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Eric Frydenlund: Dalai Lama brings out the child in us

The occasion of the Dalai Lamaâ??s visit to Madison was to help dedicate a University of Wisconsin research center created to make sense of it all. Professor Richard Davidson founded the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, the mission of which is to “conduct rigorous interdisciplinary research on healthy qualities of mind such as kindness, compassion, forgiveness and mindfulness.” Or, perhaps to capture the joys of childhood in a bottle.