Sunday 17 August 2008
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In Search of Sacred Places
Tony Grey set out to visit seven places in the world that were gateways to the sacred - Kakadu, Damascus and Assisi, the ancient Greek city of Delphi, Jerusalem's West Wall, the Egyptian temples at Abydos, and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. As founder of Australia's Pancontinental Mining Company, he's had a commercial connection to the land, but discovered on his journey that the spiritual connection to place is real and life-changing. We also hear briefly from Israeli archaeological guide, Walter Zanger, who takes Christians and Jews to their sacred places in Israel with sometimes surprising results.
He's second to the Pope as the world's most popular religious leader yet the Dalai Lama says he's not interested in converting the West to Buddhism, just teaching it how to be happy in a material world. You can hear the Dalai Lama himself, recorded during his recent visit to Australia on The Spirit of Things with Rachael Kohn, Sunday 6 July at 6.05pm, and again Tuesday 8 July at 1.05pm, and online. 
9pm AEST