This paper views the Nālandā tradition of Buddhist mind-science and healing arts as a classical legacy of global significance preserved in the renaissance civilization of Tibet. Focusing on the prospects for bringing this tradition to the West, the author attempts to expose and correct ethnocentric biases in comparative study of the Western and Buddhist scientific traditions. Comparing the critique of science in the postmodern West with the critique of conventional knowledge and action in the Centrist Philosophy (Mādhyamika) of Nāgārjuna and Candrakīrti, the paper reviews the findings of a comparative study of scientific education in seventh-century Nālandā and in the contemporary West. In particular, it compares the therapeutic aims and qualitative methods of Buddhist science in the Centrist tradition with those of the psychotherapeutic mind sciences or human sciences described by Paul Ricouer and others.
