Why Buddhism attracts us

By | August 27, 2012 | In-depth Interviews

Published in Psychologies Magazine in December 1999 — In the West, France is the country where Buddhism has experienced the most spectacular growth. Yet, while the number of its sympathizers continues to increase, its practitioners are limited to a few thousand. One of the...

Jesus must be excommunicated

By | August 27, 2012 | News 2

Le Monde, March 20, 2009. The Catholic Church is going through a crisis of unprecedented magnitude in decades. This crisis is all the more profound because its credibility is being undermined in all circles: among non-Catholics, among...

We are sitting on a volcano

By | August 27, 2012 | News 2

Le Monde, September 13, 2001. With the highly symbolic collapse of the Commerce Towers and the partial destruction of the Pentagon, two great illusions went up in smoke on Tuesday, September 11. The illusion of an American sanctuary impervious to...

A dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity

By | August 27, 2012 | News 2

Fire & Light. Last year, I organized several unique encounters between a Tibetan lama and a Benedictine abbot, which resulted in a book written in two voices on the spiritual path in Buddhism and Christianity.1 This warm and...