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On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Origins of the Buddha

Buddhism's survival has to do with the capacity it has to trigger imaginative transformations. As a practicing Buddhist, I'm not interested in separating myself from these discourses by some kind of scientific objectivity that pretends to somehow see things in a cold, clinical way. In every situation where Buddhism has gone into another culture, be it China to Japan, it speaks to the needs of those people at those times and enters a dialogue.

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