"The Conference brought together current and recent Lenz Foundation grant recipients as well as a diverse group of Buddhist practitioners and teachers from around the country and world. For four days, attendees came to the Nalanda Campus of Naropa University to meditate, listen to speakers and panels, engage in interactive teaching sessions, watch films and listen to music...Principal speakers Professors Jan Willis, Robert Thurman, and Judith Simmer-Brown all addressed the conference theme of American Buddhist diversity. Videos of their lectures and copies of their papers (where available) are provided."

"As the Jewish delegates strolled to the opening of last week’s interfaith conference on the environment at Windsor Castle, one in particular would have caught your eye: a man with a white beard, black hat and a multi-coloured tallit. Its wearer is one of the true innovators in contemporary Judaism, the neo-Chasidic rebbe who gave birth to the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, over here on a rare visit here from the United States."

Inside Higher Ed: "While many higher-education institutions have been affiliated with particular religions since their founding, there has been a broad movement in recent years to accommodate religious diversity by enlisting additional chaplains to serve different faith groups, such as Muslims, Jews, Hindus and various Christian denominations that might not have been present at institutions' foundings. Now an organization of non-religious students at Tufts University is saying: Hey, what about us?"

Danny Fisher: "Today’s quote comes to us from my former Naropa University professor Dr. Reginald A. Ray...'The spiritual path is not based on who we want to be, but who we already are. Actually, who we are is far richer, more joyful and satisfying than anything we could possibly want to be.'"

Via Rachel Leow: "the contibutions and the influence of the Persian language in spreading Islam in China."