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LONGMONT, COLORADO, MAY 23, 2006--Adam Engle, co-founder of the Mind and Life Institute of Colorado, a research think-tank without wallsO that is changing the outlook of how scientists see meditation and the brain, is photographed in front of a Tibetan Thangka in his Longmont home. Engle, who works primarily out of his home, will be bringing the Dalai Lama to the Pepsi Center in September. Back in 1985, Engle got the idea to hold the first dialogue ever between scientists and the Dalai Lama. A decade later, this series of annual conferences (and books based on them) coincided with advances in brain imaging technology, which allowed scientists to look into a working brain-which led to a revolution in the field of neuroscience plasticityO and the understanding that our brain is always growing (neurogenesis) and that how we think can literally change ours brain in positive ways, which could impact social and global relations. Working with the Dalai Lama and the nation's leading neuroscientists, Mind and Life Institute is birthing a new subfield of science that will ask and answer the question, 'How do you create and maintain a healthy mind?'" (DENVER POST STAFF PHOTO BY GLENN ASAKAWA) (Photo By Glenn Asakawa/The Denver Post via Getty Images)