Oct 29, 2026 · 53 min · 10 segments
Gere has a story he tells friends about where this all started but does it hold up? We chase an espionage angle, consider Chinese disinformation as retaliation for his Tibet activism, file CIA FOIA…
Allen SalkinHost
Nick ZellerGuest
For crucial context, let's look at moments in Gere's political and spiritual evolution that we haven't before.
Richard Gere, college philosophy major, paging through books by Carl Jung and our friend Sigmund Freud.
Gere biographer John Parker quote Gere on those years saying, I kept asking why, why, why? But the answers I got from courses seemed to be meaningless.
Gere tells PBS interviewer Charlie Rose that he explores meditating after dropping out of college.
practicing Buddhism when I was 24.
you know, hopefully gets deeper and deeper all
The up-and-coming actor leaves the Cannes Film Festival after the premiere of Days of Heaven and embarks on a soul-seeking trip that takes him to India, Nepal, Thailand, and Bali.
Gir has granted an awestruck first meeting with the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
I had been a practicing Buddhist, but it was with a Japanese before I met His Holiness in Dharamsala.
The star of American Gigolo can be found in a book-lined study in his penthouse apartment in Greenwich Village, meditating and perusing Eastern philosophy.
After shooting the biblical epic King David, Gere, with longtime girlfriend Sylvia Martens, returns to India.
He plays a political consultant, and Julie Christie plays a journalist who is his ex-wife.
Towards the end, you and I were close if we were in the same time zone.
You got an idea what it's like to spend ten days massaging St. Paul.
For crucial context, let's look at moments in Gere's political and spiritual evolution that we haven't before.
Richard Gere, college philosophy major, paging through books by Carl Jung and our friend Sigmund Freud.
Gere biographer John Parker quote Gere on those years saying, I kept asking why, why, why? But the answers I got from courses seemed to be meaningless.
Gere tells PBS interviewer Charlie Rose that he explores meditating after dropping out of college.
practicing Buddhism when I was 24.
you know, hopefully gets deeper and deeper all
The up-and-coming actor leaves the Cannes Film Festival after the premiere of Days of Heaven and embarks on a soul-seeking trip that takes him to India, Nepal, Thailand, and Bali.
Gir has granted an awestruck first meeting with the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
I had been a practicing Buddhist, but it was with a Japanese before I met His Holiness in Dharamsala.
The star of American Gigolo can be found in a book-lined study in his penthouse apartment in Greenwich Village, meditating and perusing Eastern philosophy.
After shooting the biblical epic King David, Gere, with longtime girlfriend Sylvia Martens, returns to India.
He plays a political consultant, and Julie Christie plays a journalist who is his ex-wife.
Towards the end, you and I were close if we were in the same time zone.
You got an idea what it's like to spend ten days massaging St. Paul.
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