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Religions of the World |
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Take A Guided Tour of the World’s Wisdom - Join legendary author and teacher Huston Smith as he personally guides you on an epic tour of humanity’s great wisdom traditions on Religions of the World. Complete on ten cassettes, this inspiring curriculum shares the most treasured teachings at the heart of these great traditions: Taoism • Christianity • Judaism • Buddhism • Hinduism • Confucianism • Islam • Primal religions. Drawn from more than sixty years of direct experience, inquiry, and research by Huston Smith, here is perhaps the greatest story ever told: how religion comes alive with a sacred flame, bringing light into the darkest corners of the human soul. |
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Music of Tibet: The Gyuto Multiphionic Choir |
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Recorded by Huston Smith
See video clip of Huston Smith recounting how he first encountered Tibetan multiphonic chanting, which became the recording Music of Tibet. |
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The Wisdom of Huston Smith |
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by Huston Smith, Michael Toms (Contributor)
Order from Learn Out Loud
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Portrait of a Radical |
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Q & A Audio Tapes by Huston Smith, Richard Rohr, Allen Dwight Callahan
Father Richard Rohr is a Fransiscan priest whose infectious personality and ability to draw in the listener are in part responsible for his status as one of the top selling cassette authors in the Catholic Church. Father Rohr spends a great deal of time conducting lectures, seminars and retreats around the world. Titles of some of his most popular works include Simplicity, Breathing Underwater and The Sermon on the Mount - Jesus Plan for a New World Order. Dr. Allen Dwight Callahan is an ordained Baptist minister and served
as associate professor of New Testament at Harvard Divinity School.
An extremely powerful and charismatic speaker, Dr. Callahan was most
recently seen on Frontline's four part series which appeared on PBS;
From Jesus to Christ - The First Christians. His most recently published
work is titled Embassy of Onesimus. |
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The Big Picture:
What the Religions of the World Teach Us [Abridged]
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UNDERSTANDING ISLAM
Distilled from Huston Smith’s monumental work Religions of the World audio seminar, and complete with a new, updated introduction, Understanding Islam brings a voice of understanding to this most challenging of the wisdom traditions. |
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The historic 1967 recording of the multiphonic chanting of Tibet.
The style of chanting heard on this tape was introduced into Tibet from India (where the art has long been lost) by Marpa in the eleventh century. In 1474, Gyuto was founded (along with Gyume) as one of the two Tibetan monasteries that were dedicated to using this mode of chanting for the ritualistic transmission of the most ancient, sacred, and esoteric teachings of the Buddha. The extraordinary vocal abilities this chanting requires first came to the West’s attention in 1968 through Huston Smith’s The Music of Tibet (Anthology Records), and it is from the masters for that disc that this CD was recorded.
Huston Smith has been studying
the religions of the world for over fifty years, and has studied
with spiritual teachers ranging from novelist
Aldous Huxley to Zen scholar D. T. Suzuki and the Dalai Lama. In these
collected interviews, Michael Tom, who has himself written books on
spiritual work, talks to Smith about his experiences with these men,
and plumbs
his thoughts on the spiritual issues of our times. The sound quality
is wonderful, and Toms is an experienced radio interviewer. The result
is fascinating; it feels as if you're eavesdropping on a well-paced
conversation that is at once friendly and enlightening. This collection
deserves to
have the word "wisdom" in the title. G.T.B. © AudioFile
2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine 
Our three speakers were chosen not just because they are highly respected
in their fields, but because they have an obvious passion for the subject
and an ability to infect the viewer with that positive energy. Learn
more about each speaker below: 
The story of Islam is one we urgently need to hear. Now Huston Smith, the legendary authority on comparative religions, summons a lifetime of scholarship and insight to offer this welcome listener’s guide to the most “persistently misunderstood religion in the world.” Smith takes us back to Islam’s founding lineage, revealing its inspiration in Greek philosophy and common roots with both Judaism and Christianity. With so much in common – most of all the precept of one all-powerful God – how has Islam come to inspire fear and bewilderment in the West? Join Huston Smith as he makes accessible this difficult subject.