Highlights: THE CREATIVE JOURNEY

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Channel: Emory University · 2010 · Education

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Artists in Conversation with the Dalai Lama about Spirituality and Creativity

Featuring Richard Gere and Alice Walker

How do the arts help us to express, or indeed to uncover, our spiritual yearnings and questions or certainties?  What do the artist and the spiritual master have to teach each other from their respective disciplines?  What is the role of tradition (or, conversely, iconoclasm) in maintaining or renewing art and spiritual life?  Is the human being innately spiritual, innately artistic? 

Internationally known humanitarian and award-winning actor Richard Gere will join Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker for "The Creative Journey: Artists in Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Spirituality and Creativity" at Emory University on Oct. 19. The event is part of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama's return visit to the Emory campus Oct. 17-19 in his capacity as Presidential Distinguished Professor.

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