On Being with Krista Tippett

This unedited interview with John O'Donohue is included in our show, "Inner Landscape of Beauty." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Geshe Thupten Jinpa, a Buddhist scholar and former monk, is the Dalai Lama's chief English translator. He shares the intricacies of Tibetan Buddhism that can't be conveyed in public teachings, and what happens when this ancient tradition meets modern science and modern lives.

This unedited interview with Geshe Thupten Jinpa is included in our show, "Translating the Dalai Lama." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, is one of the world's great thinkers on the promise and perils of religion. He senses that a core imperative of the 21st century is that we must cultivate strong identities as a way to honor what he evocatively calls "the dignity of difference."

This unedited interview with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is included in our show, "The Dignity of Difference." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Iranian-American political scientist Darius Rejali is one of the world's leading experts on torture, and in particular on how democracies change torture and are changed by it. In the wake of Wikileaks revelations about torture in U.S.-occupied Iraq, we explore how his knowledge might deepen our public discourse about such practices and inform our collective reckoning with consequences yet to unfold.

From Emory University in Atlanta, Krista leads a public discussion on the subject of human happiness with the Dalai Lama, the chief rabbi of the Commonwealth, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. This invigorating and unpredictable conversation explores themes of suffering, beauty, and the nature of the body.

This unedited interview with the Dalai Lama is included in our show, "Pursuing Happiness with the Dalai Lama." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

What Adele Diamond is learning about the brain challenges basic assumptions in modern education. Her work is scientifically illustrating the educational power of things like play, sports, music, memorization and reflection. What nourishes the human spirit, the whole person, it turns out, also hones our minds.

Guest Richard Mouw challenges his fellow conservative Christians to civility in public discourse. He offers historical as well as spiritual perspective on American Evangelicals' navigation of disagreement, fear, and truth.

This unedited interview with Richard Mouw is included in our show, "Restoring Political Civility - An Evangelical View." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.

Xavier Le Pichon is one of the world's leading geophysicists, and his pioneering research on plate tectonics revolutionized our understanding of how the Earth works. He has also spent decades living in community with people and families facing disability and has emerged with a rare perspective on the meaning of humanity, a perspective equally informed by his scientific and personal encounters with fragility as a fundament of vital, evolving systems.

Using stem cells, Doris Taylor brought the heart of a dead animal back to life and might one day revolutionize human organ transplantation. She takes us beyond lightning rod issues and into an unfolding frontier where science is learning how stem cells work reparatively in every body at every age.

Krista Tippett speaks with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, on journalism, compassion, and the wide ethical lens he's gained on human life in our time.

This unedited interview with Nicholas Kristof is included in our show, "Journalism and Compassion." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.