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Interview · Closer To Truth · 2020Tribute to a Religious Visionary
27 min
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Meet Huston Smith.

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Comparative religion · The World's Religions

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.

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