Religious Harmony

Statistics clearly indicate the enormous cost to the environment and the global economy of meat production and consumption. Medical science, religion, philosophy, and common sense tell us to stop eating meat or at least to cut down on the quantity and frequency of our...

Following an extensive teaching tour across the globe, Dr. Berzin presented several suggestions concerning the operating policies of Buddhist Dharma centers in foreign countries to the Dalai Lama. Read his observations and recommendations.

Buddhism and Islam offer different strategies for motivating people to deal with shared common problems such as environmental degradation, pollution and global warming. With more knowledge of each others’ methods comes more understanding and mutual respect.

“A Meeting of Two Oceans; Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism”: a dialogue at the Roshan Center for Persian Studies, University of Maryland.

It is very important to maintain a nonsectarian point of view of Bon with regard to the Tibetan traditions. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama always stresses, these different traditions share the same ultimate aim: they all teach methods for achieving enlightenment to benefit...

Summary of the approaches of theistic and nontheistic religions toward teaching their followers ethics as the foundation for taking social responsibility for the common good and environmental protection.

The health of a society arises dependently on each of its members developing a healthy mind and sense of ethics. See how the various world religions would tackle a disaster in accord with their own system of ethics.

In 1990, eight rabbis and Jewish community leaders from the United States and Israel visited Dharamsala as a continuation of a Tibet-Jewish dialogue that had begun during His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s October 1989 visit to the United States.

The Dalai Lama’s emphasis on reaching out to the Muslim world with respect and making correct information about each other’s beliefs widely available are the best roads for Buddhist-Muslim harmony in areas in Asia where the two cultures meet.

Buddhist science, philosophy and psychology can be of great benefit on a global scale to many issues faced in the 21st century. Dr. Berzin reflects on the particular challenges the major traditional Buddhist countries of Asia face.