[Unedited] The Dalai Lama, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 25 September 2014

⏱️ 115 minutes

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. He is the author of many books, including “Ethics for a New Millennium.” Jonathan Sacks is the former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth. He is the Ingeborg and Ira Rennert Global Distinguished Professor of Judaic Thought at New York University and the Kressel and Ephrat Family University Professor of Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University. He has also been appointed as Professor of Law, Ethics and the Bible at King’s College London. He is the author of several books, including The “Dignity of Difference.” Seyyed Hossein Nasr is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. He’s a prominent philosopher and scholar of Islam who has written many books, including “The Heart of Islam” and “Man and Nature.” Katharine Jefferts Schori is the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. She holds a doctorate in oceanography. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Jonathan Sacks, Katharine Jefferts Schori, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr — Pursuing Happiness.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	This is on being's unheard cuts. I'm Chris DeTippet. You're listening to my unedited conversation
0:05.7	with his holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the most reverend Dr.
0:11.8	Catherine Jaffert Shory of the Episcopal Church, and Professor Seyat Hossein Nasir of George
0:16.8	Washington University. I moderated a conversation between them at the Interfaith Summit on Happiness.
0:23.2	A live public event held on October 17, 2010 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
0:30.2	This conversation is included in our show, Pursuing Happiness.
0:34.5	View video footage of this event and download the MP3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.
0:45.1	Thank you so much, Mr. President, for your generous introduction. A good afternoon to each of all
0:49.8	each of you. It's a great privilege to welcome you to this Interfaith Summit on Happiness.
0:55.1	I am John Whitty. I serve as Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory
1:00.0	University, the host of this afternoon's Summit. Our Center is devoted to studying the religious
1:06.0	sources and dimensions of law, politics, and society. The American Declaration of Independence
1:12.9	proclaims famously that all persons have the unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit
1:20.3	of happiness. This was a shining new ideal for America and for the world. Our normative totem
1:27.3	for each generation to make more real and more concrete. This was also a fluid ideal,
1:34.0	with every person given the liberty to map and to measure happiness for themselves and in their
1:40.1	own way. As a consequence, happiness as a concept, both historically and today, has a range of
1:46.8	meanings from pleasure and satisfaction and well-being to understandings of wholeness,
1:54.0	of self-fulfillment, of blessedness, of virtuous attainment, even to understandings of blessing
2:00.8	and beattitude and holiness and the pursuit of perfection. However, it's defined, however,
2:07.8	happiness seems always to be best achieved in community, if not in communion with others.
2:15.5	The doors to happiness always open outward, Victor Frankel said famously echoing Soren Kierkegaard.
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