From today's DailyDharma

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"According to Buddhist theory, there are some things that belong to the subtle consciousness, or subtle mind, that are independent from the body, from the brain. There is no assertion in Buddhism that there is a 'thing' called a soul or a 'thing' called consciousness, some 'thing' that exists independently of the brain. There is no such 'thing' existing independently of the brain or being dependent upon the brain. But rather, consciousness is understood as a multifaceted matrix of events. Some of them are utterly dependent of the brain, and at the other end of the spectrum, some of them are completely independent of the brain. There is no thing that is the mind or the soul."

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, from the book, Consciousness at the Crossroads: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Brain Science and Buddhism, published by Snow Lion Publications.