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Together, Daisaku Ikeda and Josef Derbulav explore a wide range of topics, starting with a discussion of the tension between tradition and modernization in Japan and elsewhere. They compare humanism in East and West, and Buddhism and Christianity. Focusing on the crucial topic of education, they consider the roles of ethics and religion, and zero in on concrete problems and issues: education and political authority, absenteeism, violence in schools,...

Four prominent Buddhist scholars, Norman Fischer, a Zen prest; Joseph Goldstein, cofounder of the Insight Mediation Society, Judith Simmer-Brown, Buddist Studies program at Naropa University and Yifa, and Fo Guang a nun from Shan Monastery in Tawian discuss and debate the Saint Benedict's Rule that still govern and regulates daily life in a Christian monastery. The personal anecdotes and debates reveal the wisdom and many similarities between their...

This program explores the two great religions to come from India. "The historian of religion can find almost anything he wants in India, enacted with intensity. What remains is to carry its insight into everyday life. Smith uncovered the mysteries of multiphonic chanting among Tibetan lamas, previously unknown in the West. Characterizing these chants as "the holiest sound I have ever heard," Smith reveals the chanting to be a form of meditation. Smith...