5 min
Talk
The Window
Five minutes, and his clearest image: every tradition is a window, and no window is the view.
About the teacher
Raimon Panikkar
Catalan-Indian priest and scholar of comparative religion (1918–2010), son of a Hindu father and a Catalan Catholic mother. He was ordained a Catholic priest, spent years in Varanasi studying the Vedas, and taught in Rome, Harvard and California before returning to a village in Catalonia. He is best known for the idea that the traditions meet without becoming each other.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
32 min
Interview
Follow Your Heart, Provided It Is Pure
A late interview, closer to his life than to his philosophy.
52 min
Talk
In Dialogue with Tu Weiming
A 2004 conversation with the Confucian scholar Tu Weiming, two traditions talking without merging.
62 min
Interview
On Swami Abhishiktananda
An hour on the Benedictine monk who became a Hindu sannyasi, and on what that cost him.
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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