BOISE, Idaho – A Boise State professor is traveling to one of India’s famed hill towns to teach science to a group of Buddhist monks.
Physics professor Dewey Dykstra says teaching the workshop in Dehra Dun at the foot of the Himalayas will be a challenge.
The monks, exiles from Tibetan monasteries, don’t speak English and have little exposure to Western science.
But Dykstra says he’ll used inquiry-based techniques he’s developed during 23 years at B-S-U.
The workshop will focus on the physics of optics and light.
The program is part of the Science for Monks project started six years ago by the Dalai Lama to join Western and Eastern methods of teaching.
