Acknowledgments

List of Color Plates

List of Black/White Illustrations

Introduction: A Pilgrimage to the Heart (Richard Kearney)

Traversals (I): Hindu-Christian)

1. The Bangalore Conference

Open-Source Hinduism (Siddhartha)

Yoga and the Wounded Heart (Jyoti Sahi)

On Spirituality and Organized Religion: Conversations With (Raghu Ananthanarayanan)

Empathy and Inter-Religious Imagination (Catherine Cornille)

Inclusive Imagination: A Comment on Religion and Culture in India (Chandan Gowda)

My Adventure with Inter-Religious Dialogue (Joseph A. Samarakone, O.M.I)

A Monk's Journey in Search of God (Simon Sleeman, O.S.B)

Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty (James Morley)

Confessions of a Hindu-Catholic Artist (Caroline Mackenzie)

2. In The Wake Of Bangalore

The Heart Beyond Hearts (Swami Tyagananda)

Childhood, Intuition, Vocation: Remembering Sara Grant (Fanny Howe)

Arunachala (Shirley du Boulay)

The Lord of the Heart: Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics and Kashmir Śaivism (Bettina Bäumer)

Encountering the Divine Mother in Hindu and Christian Hymns (Francis X. Clooney, S.J)

Narratives of a Dialogue Pilgrim (Albert Nambiaparambil, C.M.I)

Pranayama: Breathing from the Heart (Richard Kearney)

Spiritual Improvisations: Ramakrishna, Aurobindo, and the Freedom of Tradition (Martin Cohen)

Color Plates

Traversals (II):Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish 1. Islamic Legacies

1. Islamic Legacies

Imaging Islam: Intellect and Imagination in Islamic Philosophy, Poetry, and Painting (James W. Morris)

India: A Laboratory of Inter-Religious Experiment (Maqbool Ahmed Siraj)

The Paradox of Proximity to the Infinite: An Exploration of Sidrat Al-Muntaha, "The Lote Tree Beyond which None May Pass" (Hannah Bigelow Merriman)

Following (Steffen A. J. Stelzer)

2. Buddhist Offerings

Knowing The Heart Sūtra by Heart (Joseph S. O'Leary)

Pure Perception and Equanimity of Heart (John Makransky)

On Seeing the Birth of the Heart (Mary M. Anderson)

3. Jewish and Christian Transformations

Healing Wounds: Reflections on Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interfaith Partnership in Poland (Edward K. Kaplan)

Desire and the Desirable: Nicholas De Cusa's Interfaith Imagination (Fred Dallmayr)

Promises of Advent: North and South (Eileen Rizo-Patron)

Notes on Contributors

Index of Terms/Topics

Index of Names/Titles