Royal Reason of Relativity: Buddha, Einstein & Wittgenstein – Ep. 5

Professor Thurman discusses the progression in theories of relativity in the west from Einstein to Wittgenstein, and shows how the Buddha set forth a perhaps more complete version of the same insight 2500 years earlier with what was later called “ the royal reason of relativity . “ Podcast includes an introduction to emptiness , non-duality and the Buddha’s radical and blissful discovery . This episode is extracted from Professor Thurman’s Winter 2015 lecture series at Tibet House US “Essential Tibetan Buddhism, and its Context in Tibet and the World.” Royal Reason of Relativity: Buddha, Einstein & Wittgenstein – Ep. 5 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Photo by Sidney Perry on Unsplash .