Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel | The Nature of Interdependence | 2017 Festival of Faiths

The 22nd annual Festival of Faiths | "Compassion: Shining like the Sun" | April 19-22, 2017 - Louisville, KY | http://festivaloffaiths.org

A conversation on the nature of interdependence from both eastern and western faith traditions with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, Bishop Marc Andrus, Patrick Holden and Owsley Brown III.

Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel has studied and practiced the Buddhadharma for 30 years under the guidance of Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. After meeting Rinpoche in Nepal, she became his first Western student. Elizabeth has an academic background in both Anthropology and Buddhist Studies, but her learning is also grounded in practice.

Bishop Marc Andrus is a longtime environmental advocate, represented the Episcopal Church at the Earth Day signing of the Paris Agreement at the invitation of U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He also joined an Episcopal delegation in December that represented the presiding bishop and the church at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, known as COP21, where 196 parties created the agreement that sets out to decrease carbon emissions and limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

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