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BENEDICT'S DHARMA: BUDDHISTS REFLECT ON THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT Edited by Patrick Henry Riverhead, 223 pages, $23.95

We have entered a new age -- what I call the Interspiritual Age -- in which the barriers between cultures are collapsing, and thousands of years of cultures in isolation from one another are coming to an end. In this remarkably creative period of history, some members of religious traditions are exploring the depth dimension of other traditions. If a pe...