By Skirball Cultural Center
May 28, 2009 12:32 PM

Listen to audio of conversation on Science, Ethics and Religion with Bob Thurman and Danny Hillis.

Preeminent figures in the fields of religion and technology Dr. Robert Thurman and Dr. Danny Hillis engage in a thought-provoking conversation on scientific progress and its impact on society. Robert Thurman has cultivated a worldwide awareness of Tibet through his academic and popular writing, translation of important Buddhist texts, and commitment to finding a peaceful resolution to the China-Tibet conflict. Danny Hillis is a respected figure in the technology community. He is an inventor, scientist, author, and engineer. He holds more than eighty U.S. patents and is the designer of the 10,000-year mechanical clock. This program was presented in commemoration of the bicentennial, in February 2009, of Charles Darwin.
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Author, Educator Robert Thurman popularizes the Wisdom and Culture of Tibet by Adam Phillips of VOA News

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As the author or translator of 18 books on Buddhism and as co-founder of Tibet House in New York, Robert Thurman has helped bring Tibetan wisdom and philosophy solidly into the American cultural mainstream. VOA’s Adam Phillips profiles the Tibetan scholar from New York. [Read more]

Duncan Campbell, host of Living Dialogues, and Robert Thurman engage in a stimulating and informative dialogue on ‘Why The Dalai Lama Matters’ to all of us. Each of them weave together many different perspectives: spiritual, historical, cultural, political and ecological, from both East and West, pertinent to the current world-affecting drama that China is engaged in with the Tibetan people and environmental destruction imitative of our own Western history.

The Dalai Lama is seen as an inspirational model, with a profound and pragmatic understanding of the nature of the planet, the hopes and conflicts of humanity, the crises we are all in, and as a great practitioner of the “art of dialogue” required for our planetary evolution. The dialogue includes references from past Olympics and a point by point summary of Robert’s five-part plan for the political and ecological reconciliation of China and Tibet.

Visit Living Dialogues to listen to the full audio of this dialogue.

Listen to “Finding the Middle Way Between China and Tibet“, the July 31, 2008 episode of Interfaith Voices in which Maureen Fielder interviews Robert Thurman about Tibet and the Dalai Lama.

Click here to listen to a discussion about Tibet with Robert Thurman, author of Why the Dalai Lama Matters, on Your Call, the daily call-in show of KALW public radio in San Francisco. Recorded June 5, 2008.