Dr. Atul Gawande is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard University, a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of several books on medicine and ethics, including Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He has written about the balance between medical ethics and the right to a […]

Michael Austin is a communications consultant and Christian commentator. He is the spokesman for the Christian History Institute. Austin can discuss evolution-creationism debates, Christian persecution and the history of church-state relations. He lives in New York City.

Snowboarders and Skiers for Christ USA is a national Christian ministry that partners with local churches in the U.S. to focus on youth. The national office is in Dillon, Colo., but there are offices all around the nation, which it breaks down into four regions. The ministry has overseas branches in New Zealand, Switzerland, Japan, […]

Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association is a U.S. based nonprofit organization founded and led by master Sheng Yen, a renowned teacher of Chan Buddhism. It aims to support scholarly research in the field of Buddhism, particularly the Chan tradition, instructing and encouraging Buddhist practitioners through its centers in the United States. Its international activities include […]

Zen Mountain Monastery, located in  Mount Tremper, N.Y., is the main house of the Mountains and Rivers order, a respected Zen Buddhist monastery and training center in the West. The sangha also includes practitioners at the Zen Center of New York and the order’s affiliate groups.

Tibet House US aims to promote and preserve Tibetan culture by serving as both a cultural center in New York City and an online global resource for Tibetan civilization. The New York City center serves as a meeting place for the local Tibetan community to hold programs and events. The website includes a global directory […]

Sung-bae Park is a professor of religious studies at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, with an expertise in interfaith dialogue such as Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the Buddhist-Confucian debate in Korea. He is the founder and director of the Center for Korean Studies at Stony Brook.

Office of Tibet in New York is the official agency of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan administration-in-exile, based in Dharamsala, India. It was established in 1964 to raise the issue of Tibet at the United Nations. Its responsibilities now include supporting Tibetans living in the US and Canada, coordinating visits of the Dalai Lama […]

New York Insight is an urban center in New York City for the practice of Vipassana meditation. In reflection of the diversity of New York City, the center focuses on welcoming people of different ages, cultures, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities and spiritual backgrounds.