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Podcast: New Books in Buddhist Studies
Episode: A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
Description: Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father’s practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin’s father conduct a blessing ritual.Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so b...