When Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi was a boy, he “was seen as somebody that would do something in the future.” This meant that he was one of three children chosen to meet the Dalai Lama in 1974, the beginning of a mentorship and friendship between Negi and His Holiness.
Chautauqua Institution is a privileged place — neighbors can leave their doors unlocked and children can play in the streets with no one worries and no crime. But outside of these gates, Karen Armstrong said, and outside of other privileged places in the United States and Great Britain, violence rages on.
Ori Soltes identified three problems in faith traditions that can make religion either a positive or negative force in the world — the first being that “it is, by definition, a construct that addresses a reality other than our own.”
Annie Griffiths is giving more than a just a voice to the voiceless — she is illuminating the darkness they are shrouded in by showing the world who they really are, one photograph at a time.
The question is not whether or not God exists, Nathan Schneider said, but what is your relationship with God?
Meditative aspects can be found in all religions, Subagh Singh Khalsa said, and the Mystic Heart Program allows him and other meditation teachers to point out those aspects to Chautauquans of all faiths and traditions.
After setting some “ground rules” for who got to lead the conversation, Krista Tippett and Michel Martin, both female journalists and radio hosts, talked shop at the 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture Thursday in the Hall of Philosophy.
Richard Rodriguez believes God is brown. Brown, he said, represents complexity — of religion, of ethnicity, of language.
In two senses, precipitation was the theme of Krista Tippett and Imani Perry’s 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture Tuesday in the Hall of Philosophy.
According to Roberto Unger, “the world has been in a storm,” with a constant fire burning for about 200 years.
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