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Stephen Batchelor — Wondrous Doubt

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Spirituality of Pilgrimage

I experience you also to continue to be in a very vital and creative relationship with tradition. I realise that sits perhaps for some uncomfortably with some of the other things I write, which have a very sort of secular pared-down feel to them. But one of the things that I greatly cherish is pilgrimage. And pretty much every year for the last few years, I've been going back to India primarily and visiting these ancient sites. Buddhism, of course, no longer really exists in India. But there's some wonderful places, both those where the Buddha lived and taught with now - we can visit them. And also sites of ancient Buddhist monasteries in India, such as Aj

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