27 min
Interview
Tribute to a Religious Visionary
Half an hour of him in conversation, put together after his death.
About the teacher
Huston Smith
American scholar of religion (1919–2016), born in Suzhou to Methodist missionary parents. His book The World's Religions has sold more than three million copies and taught a generation to read the traditions on their own terms. He practised what he wrote about: Vedanta under Swami Satprakashananda, Zen under Goto Zuigan, and Sufism, each for more than ten years.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
28 min
Interview
The Psychology of Religious Experience
Jeffrey Mishlove asks him what actually happens to a person in a religious experience.
29 min
Talk
India and the Infinite
On the Indian traditions as he came to know them from the inside, over ten years of Vedanta practice.
88 min
Talk
Why Religion Matters
An hour and a half at Duke on what a scientific age loses when it treats religion as a leftover.
Path
The wider context.
ॐ
Ancient inquiry into what remains
Vedanta
Classical Hindu philosophy of Self-inquiry into the nature of Atman and Brahman, transmitted through scripture, teacher lineages and rigorous study.
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