What if Jesus and Buddha were spiritual besties? These three thinkers went there.
Three leading figures in today's Buddhist-Christian dialogue share their personal journeys in the new documentary Jesus and Buddha: Practicing Across Traditions. We learn how following the path of the Buddha has informed and deepened their understanding of who Jesus was and what he taught. Their experience and insight bring these two liberating archetypes alive in a way that can help guide us through our own confusion and struggle toward lives filled with joy and gratitude, compassion and service.
Writing
Rare theological nuance that doesn't collapse differences into sameness
Direction
Patient interviews that let thinkers breathe without documentary hype
Director
John Ankele
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2014 release arrived during peak 'spiritual but not religious' cultural moment, before the term became a dating app cliché. The participants were already controversial—Knitter's 1985 book 'No Other Name?' nearly got him fired from seminary.
Kennedy's Jesuit-Zen lineage traces to 1960s Vatican II experimentation that Pope Francis later quietly rehabilitated; the film captures a window before this dialogue became institutionalized or dismissed entirely.
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