We know that in the third century B.C., the Indian emperor Ashoka, a committed Buddhist, made a determined missionary effort. He sent emissaries to Syria and Egypt to teach dharma. A Last Secret, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India at 273, Rodger Kamenetz.

[T]here's [no] . . . Jewish meditation or Buddhist meditation: there is meditation. There's a debate within the philosophy of religion about whether a mystical experience in one religion is the same as in another. It's a very academic argument. Moshe Waldoks, as quoted in A Last Secret, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India at 265, Rodger Kamenetz.

There are great treasures in the soul: there's faith, there's love, there's awe, there's wisdom, all these treasures you can dig--but if you don't know where to dig, you dig up mud--Freud--or you dig up stones--Adler. But if you want to get to the gold, which is the awe before God, and the silver, which is the love, and the diamonds, which are the faith, then you have to find the geologist of the soul who tells you where to dig. . . . But the digging you have to do yourself. So Zalman, as quoted in Shabbat Shalom and Tashe Delek, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India at 265, Rodger Kamenetz.

In today's world, Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism and other wisdom traditions are endangered species. . . . Like the Dalai Lama and Rabbi Greenberg, I worry in particular that Tibetan Buddhism will not survive. Not just for the Tibetans' sake, but for the world's sake. In a Pool of Nectar, The Jew in the Lotus: A Poet's Rediscovery of Jewish Identity in Buddhist India at 288, Rodger Kamenetz.

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