Jack Kornfield, a Buddhist monk, is founding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, Calif. Kornfield is the author of Buddha’s Little Instruction Book, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path and other books on Buddhist life.

Read the transcript of a July 10, 2006, Pew Forum panel exploring the results of an international survey “focusing on Muslim and Western perceptions of each other and on the Muslim experience in Europe.” The panel, titled “Islam and the West: How Great a Divide?” featured Amaney Jamal, assistant professor in the department of politics at Princeton […]

Read the transcript of an April 27, 2006, Pew panel titled “Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis,” an interview with one of the leading scholars and critics of Islam.

Janet Gyatso is a specialist in Buddhist studies and author of multiple books, including Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015).

See the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report from the U.S. State Department.

Charles Muller is a professor in the humanities department at Toyo Gakuen University in Japan. He is the author of The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism’s Guide to Meditation and can speak about Buddhism among Koreans. He also runs the website Resources for East Asian Language and Thought and has become interested in how the Internet can be […]

Read a Southern California Public Radio story about how Los Angeles Muslims see potential for stronger interfaith relations with the Catholic Pope Francis.

Read a March 29, 2001, BBC report about Pope John Paul II becoming the first pope to visit a mosque.

Listen to an April 7, 2005, Morning Edition report from National Public Radio about how Pope Benedict takes a less conciliatory approach to Islam than did his predecessor.