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Kristina Jonutytė, "Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia" (Cornell UP, 2026)
62 hours 13 mins; April 01, 2026
Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell
63 hours 5 mins; March 08, 2026
Himanshu Prabha Ray ed., "Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections" (Routledge, 2026)
64 hours 16 mins; February 15, 2026
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
53 mins; February 01, 2026
Natasha Heller, "Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan" (U Hawai'i Press, 2025)
67 hours 15 mins; January 26, 2026
Sara Ann Swenson, "Near Light We Shine: Buddhist Charity in Urban Vietnam" (Oxford UP, 2025)
63 hours 50 mins; January 15, 2026
Mercedes Valmisa, "All Things Act" (Oxford UP, 2025)
56 mins; January 13, 2026
Nile Green, "Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean" (U Texas Press, 2026)
62 hours 24 mins; January 07, 2026
Thomas J. Mazanec, "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China" (Cornell UP, 2024)
74 hours 58 mins; January 05, 2026
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)
89 hours 30 mins; January 04, 2026
Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew eds., "Buddhist Masculinities" (Columbia UP, 2023)
55 mins; January 02, 2026
Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
58 mins; December 30, 2025
Integral Perspectives: From Kashmiri Shaivism to Tibetan Buddhism with Sean K. MacCracken
90 hours 50 mins; December 20, 2025
Yasmin Cho, "Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet" (Cornell UP, 2025)
53 mins; December 15, 2025
Dr. Michael Uebel on Reimaging Equanimity
46 mins; December 13, 2025
Black Beryl: Self and Nonself, with Nick Canby
69 hours 52 mins; December 12, 2025
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
49 mins; December 01, 2025
Stephen Murphy, "Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2024)
55 mins; December 01, 2025
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
47 mins; November 29, 2025
Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2025)
41 mins; November 20, 2025
Sonia Faleiro, "The Robe and the Sword: How Buddhist Extremism Is Shaping Modern Asia" (Columbia UP, 2025)
41 mins; November 14, 2025
Karine GagnƩ, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
101 hours 53 mins; November 09, 2025
Anand, "The Notbook of Kabir: Thinner than Water, Fiercer than Fire" (India Viking, 2025)
93 hours 49 mins; November 04, 2025
Chandra Chiara Ehm, "Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities" (Vajra Books, 2024)
65 hours 34 mins; October 15, 2025
Kathryn Hurlock, "Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World" (Profile, 2025)
55 mins; October 14, 2025
The Perils of Tantra, with Susannah Deane
57 mins; October 06, 2025
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
32 mins; September 19, 2025
Ruth E. Toulson, "Necropolitics of the Ordinary: Death and Grieving in Contemporary Singapore" (U Washington Press, 2024)
58 mins; September 07, 2025
Rima Vesely-Flad, "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation" (NYU Press, 2022)
92 hours 41 mins; August 22, 2025
Kirin Narayan, "Cave of My Ancestors: Vishwakarma and the Artisans of Ellora" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
77 hours 25 mins; August 11, 2025
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Britton & Jared Lindahl
71 hours 54 mins; August 03, 2025
Anne M. Blackburn, "Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean: A Pali Arena, 1200-1550" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
56 mins; August 01, 2025
Magdalena Maria Turek, "Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet: Saint-Making and Ascetic Performance" (Routledge, 2025)
79 hours 13 mins; July 25, 2025
Emergent Phenomena with Daniel M. Ingram
71 hours 26 mins; July 13, 2025
Alexus McLeod, "Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon" (Lexington Books, 2025)
96 hours 0 mins; July 09, 2025
Gregory N. Evon, "Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)" (Cambria Press, 2023)
66 hours 55 mins; June 16, 2025
Brook Ziporyn, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
121 hours 54 mins; June 16, 2025
Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
38 mins; June 01, 2025
Jessica X. Zu, "Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2025)
84 hours 2 mins; May 28, 2025
Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too
85 hours 47 mins; May 21, 2025
Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024)
61 hours 4 mins; May 19, 2025
Kin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025)
41 mins; May 13, 2025
Catherine Hartmann, "Making the Invisible Real: Practice of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage" (Oxford UP, 2025)
64 hours 20 mins; May 09, 2025
Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias
73 hours 52 mins; April 09, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
113 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2025
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
99 hours 10 mins; March 18, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
69 hours 16 mins; February 21, 2025
Magic, Death, and Necromancy with Justin McDaniel
56 mins; February 05, 2025
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
42 mins; January 16, 2025
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157ā€“1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
54 mins; January 06, 2025
Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024)
65 hours 20 mins; December 19, 2024
Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence
111 hours 54 mins; December 11, 2024
Adeana McNicholl, "Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
58 mins; October 09, 2024
Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)
78 hours 20 mins; September 24, 2024
The Body in Classical Hathayoga, with Ruth Westoby
55 mins; September 08, 2024
Christopher P. Miller et al., "Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age" (Lexington, 2019)
43 mins; September 05, 2024
Alone in a World of Wounds with Zen Abbot Shodhin Geiman
87 hours 16 mins; August 29, 2024
Justine Chambers, "Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar" (NUS Press, 2024)
49 mins; August 15, 2024
Yoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo Wildcroft
62 hours 35 mins; August 11, 2024
D. E. Osto, "Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
52 mins; August 01, 2024
Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
64 hours 54 mins; July 20, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
76 hours 20 mins; July 20, 2024
Rory Lindsay, "Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvardurgatipariśodhana Tantra" (WSTB, 2024)
43 mins; July 11, 2024
Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023)
84 hours 28 mins; July 06, 2024
Cameron Bailey and Aleksandra Wenta, "Tibetan Magic: Past and Present" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
46 mins; June 21, 2024
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao
55 mins; June 21, 2024
The Enlightenment of the Body, with Naomi Worth
54 mins; June 09, 2024
Benjamin Brose, "Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
65 hours 6 mins; May 23, 2024
Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912ā€“1949" (Columbia UP, 2023)
68 hours 2 mins; May 17, 2024
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
66 hours 50 mins; May 05, 2024
Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein
62 hours 18 mins; May 04, 2024
Matthew Robertson, "Puruį¹£a: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
68 hours 54 mins; April 09, 2024
William S. Waldron, "Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
134 hours 11 mins; April 04, 2024
Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
59 mins; March 31, 2024
Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron
87 hours 29 mins; March 23, 2024
Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
40 mins; March 14, 2024
Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
75 hours 34 mins; February 26, 2024
Buddhist Medicine in Contemporary Times (with Pierce Salguero)
80 hours 41 mins; February 09, 2024
Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
52 mins; February 08, 2024
Daniel Capper, "Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World" (Cornell UP, 2022)
51 mins; February 05, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
51 mins; January 26, 2024
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; January 20, 2024
Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" (Random House, 2004)
63 hours 1 min; January 17, 2024
Douglas S. Duckworth, "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature" (Oxford UP, 2019)
52 mins; January 14, 2024
Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality
78 hours 27 mins; January 08, 2024
Women and the Body in Buddhism
72 hours 20 mins; January 07, 2024
M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet" (SUNY Press, 2019)
66 hours 26 mins; January 05, 2024
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
58 mins; December 30, 2023
Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
63 hours 56 mins; December 29, 2023
Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
66 hours 48 mins; December 26, 2023
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
27 mins; December 22, 2023
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
69 hours 41 mins; December 20, 2023
Oren Jay Sofer, "Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love" (Shambhala, 2023)
53 mins; December 10, 2023
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
72 hours 48 mins; December 04, 2023
Lama Rod Owens, "The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors" (Sounds True, 2023)
63 hours 38 mins; November 19, 2023
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
51 mins; November 18, 2023
Ross Gay, "The Book of (More) Delights: Essays" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
44 mins; November 17, 2023
A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
56 mins; November 11, 2023
A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin
134 hours 43 mins; November 10, 2023
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
82 hours 52 mins; November 10, 2023
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