Journalist ARI L

2: Journalist ARI L. GOLDMAN. He's the former religion correspondent for The New York Times. He's the author of "The Search for God At Harvard". It's about the year he took off from his job to attend the Harvard Divinity School and his experiences there and how they affected his own faith as an orthodox jew. (published by Random House). (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 5/28/91). GOLDMAN now teaches at the Columbia School of Journalism. .Tibetan buddhist master SOGYAL RINPOCHE ("soh-GYAL RIN-poh-chay," the ch as in chair). He was born in Tibet and raised by a master in the buddhist tradition. He also studied at Cambridge University in England. He has lived outside of Tibet, in exile, for 20 years. "Rinpoche" is a title usually given to incarnate Lamas, meaning "the Precious One." John Cleese of Monty Python fame once introduced one of Rinpoche's talks, by saying it was the first time he played warm-up man to an incarnate lama. Rinpoche is the incarnation of Terton Sogyal (1856-1926), a Tibetan mystic and the teacher of the last Dalai Lama. Rinpoche's book, "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying," combines Tibetan wisdom with modern research on death and dying. (HarperCollins) (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4/20/93) (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE ATC PROMO).