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　　Thus from his venturing into the study on reincarnation at the age of 39 until his death in 2007 at the age of 89, Dr. Stevenson has devoted his whole life to explore and verify the existence of past and future life using strict scientific protocols and objective approaches. After retiring from the Division of Perceptual Studies, School of Medicine, University of Virginia in 2001, he busied himself with ongoing writing and research. His last book European Cases of the Reincarnation Type, published in 2004, also received wide attention, but regrettably there is no Chinese translation yet.

　　Dr. Stevenson has written many books and has collected more than 2,500 cases of real people and real stories. These cases are neither hearsay nor presumptions; rather, they are firsthand information he obtained by personally visiting and interviewing witnesses one by one. These days, many people tend to be suspicious about claims made purely in Buddhism, Dr. Stevenson”s findings. I think, is worthy of exploration.

　　This year, a number of doctorates who have studied in the United States came to our institute; some of them have taken monastic vows, and some are lay practitioners. Together with other overseas graduate students they founded the Wisdom and Compassion Translation Center and set a goal to translate into Chinese some of the books on past and future life in the United States, United Kingdom, and so on, in ten years.

　　2. Dr. Jim B.Tucker Firmly Believes in the Existence of a Future Life

　　Jim B. Tucker, M.D., is the medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia. He worked on reincarnation with Dr. Ian Stevenson for a number of years before taking over upon Stevenson”s retirement.

　　At first Dr. Tucker was skeptical about reincarnation, but after reading the books by Dr. Stevenson he was greatly intrigued and joined the research. I had some contact with Dr. Tucker recently. Just like Dr. Stevenson, he is a meticulous scientist, but unlike Dr. Stevenson who worked mostly with Asian children, his main focus is on childhood cases in the United States. He noticed that the cases of children remembering previous lives were found most frequently in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and other Asian countries, and later were also reported in England, but why not in the United States

　　 Thus he redirected his research to the United States and has been richly rewarded.

　　During an interview in 2010, Dr. Tucker shared one of the more striking cases. An American boy had been talking about his past life since he was 4 years old, saying the house he lived in Hollywood had a big swimming pool, and that he had been a dancer, an actor, and an entertainment agent, and traveled around the world on ships. It all sounded like fantasies from a toddler.His mother, trying to help her son to cope and be more specific,searched and found books on old Hollywood movies. Flipping through one of them, the boy got excited when he saw an old still photograph; pointing to one of the figures, he exclaimed, “That”s me!

　　Dr. Tucker then enlisted the aid of many professionals and found the information on the boy”s presumed previous life. Indeed he had been a dancer before becoming an actor in Hollywood. He had lived in a mansion with a huge swimming pool and was a successful agent traveling around the world on ocean liners.

　　Dr. Tucker told the reporter that he did not believe in reincarnation earlier on, but was intrigued that he began to work with Dr. Stevenson. Gradually, he turned into a half-believer, and lastly he believes the cases suggestive of reincarnation are hard to dismiss. This information is not yet available in a Chinese, I am just quoting part of the translation done by the Wisdom …

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