Leonard Swidler of Temple's Religion Department visited Beijing to give a speech on the dialogue between Confucianism and Western traditions at Peking University. Swidler, who founded the Dialogue Institute at Temple in 1978 with the aim of fostering interreligious scholarship, thinks that keeping the conversation between eastern and western religions alive is vital. "No tradition can cover the whole truth; we need each other," he said. "We are always heading towards light in the long run, and I'm confident we will embrace brightness together."