Parliament of Worlds Religion 2004 Barcelona

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Program Descriptions
Friday, July 9, 2004 INTRARELIGIOUS SESSION 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
years, including monthly open walks, and various workshops and courses for all ages using the labyrinth as a spiritual tool. Beth Burnham Mace, secretary for the Labyrinth Guild of New England, is a certified labyrinth facilitator with the San Francisco Grace Cathedral Veriditas Program. In August 2003, she and other members of the Guild led a week long pilgrimage to Chartres Cathedral. She leads labyrinth workshops in Boston hospitals and church groups.
supports it. There will also be ample opportunity for attendees to participate in thoughtful introspection and "heartful" dialogue with one another. Richard Rathbun, a Stanford graduate, is board chairman of the Foundation for Global Community. His work hos focused upon international and human development, peace and consciousness, and conflict resolution in areas such as the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan and Central America.
INTRARELIGIOUS 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Jane Kroll is affiliated with the Foundation for Global Community. A professionally trained teacher of the Enneagram, a study of different personality types and their growth processes, much of her life has been spent as a volunteer activist for non-profit organizations.
Cultural Fusion: Tibetan Voices and Occidental Songs Thubten Wingchen Tashi Dorje
Sidney Liebes originated the one-mile-long (1,500 meter) world-renowned, context-setting exhibition "A Walk Through Time...From Stardust to Us", which unfolds the evolution of Earth and life upon it at a scale where each foot (1/3 meter) represents one million years. He retired following research careers at Hewlett-Packard Labs and Princeton and Stanford Universities in electron and nuclear physics, relativity, computer vision, automated stereophotogrammetry, search for extra-terrestrial life, and automation technology.
Theater, Italian/English Artistic Performance
Concert of Tashi Dorje, the only Tibetan tenor graduated in the Liceo, theatre of Opera of Barcelona. He will offer the Ave Maria of Schubert among other west Christian pieces.
Thubten Wangchen is a Buddhist monk born in Tibet, who studied 11 years in the private monastery of the Dalai Lama (Namgyal) in Dharamsala (India); he now lives in Barcelona and is the president of the Tibet House
The Importance of Intra-Religious Dialogue Mohammed Kagee Rev. Sherri Hausser Bishop Michael Ingham Shlomo Alon
Room 113, Spanish/English/Catalan Partner Cities, Panel Discussion
Born in Chamdo, Tibet, Tashi Dorje studied in the Opera, Dance and Theater Academy of the University of Pekin. He has received some international prizes. He has studied with Eduardo Giménez in the Superior School of Music of the Liceo of Barcelona and with Victorio Terranova in the Superior School of Music of Milan.
Voyage of Discovery: From Stardust to Us - The Story Richard Rathbun Jane Kroll Sidney Liebes
This program is part of the Goldin Institute sponsored series highlighting the work of the Partner Cities around the world. Organizers from the Partner Cities Network will share stories, teachings, and practices from their own tradition that inspire interreligious dialogue and cooperation, as well as articulate the challenges and opportunities of organizing intra-religious dialogue within their communities. Discussion will center on communal perceptions of dialogue and lessons learned from the panelists' experiences.
Room 111, Spanish/English/Catalan
Mohammed Kagee is a Founding Member of the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative and the Muslim Students Association of South Africa. He also serves as a Trustee of the Claremont Main Road Mosque, which was instrumental in the anti-apartheid struggle.
The objective of the Story session is for participants to experience the expanded story and sense the awe and wonder of it, how it broadens and deepens our understanding of the world and our role and identity in it. Included will be a video that traces the profound journey we have all taken "from stardust to us." Another video to be shown captures the common expanded identity experienced by astronauts from several nations when first viewing Earth from space. The physicist creator of the Walk Through Time will be present to offer his personal reflections on the story and the science that
Rev. Sherri Hausser is a Presbyterian Pastor and a founding Member of the Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia. She has worked for the Japanese Government, a Japanese women's university, the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions and served on the national Council of Churches (U.S.A) Interfaith Relations Commission.
Michael Ingham is Bishop of the Diocese of New Westminster in The Anglican Church of Conada, and teaches Religious Pluralism at
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