Human Longing and the Search for Meaning
Interfaith Lecture Series • 1h 24m
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, July 7, 2020.
Acharya Judith Lief provides a Buddhist guide to encountering mortality.
Lief is a Buddhist teacher and author who has been leading workshops on a contemplative approach to death and dying, and on the teachings of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, since 1976. She is also a founding member of The Contemplative Alliance, an affiliate of the Global Peace Initiative of Women.
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