New Books in Buddhist Studies
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Wake up! (Part 3) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts
51 mins; November 02, 2023
Wake up! (Part 2) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts
28 mins; October 26, 2023
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
32 mins; October 20, 2023
Wake up! (Part 1) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts
26 mins; October 19, 2023
Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)
64 hours 19 mins; October 10, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
33 mins; October 05, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
32 mins; September 12, 2023
Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)
66 hours 26 mins; September 08, 2023
Anne Klein, "Being Human and a Buddha Too: Longchenpa's Seven Trainings for a Sunlit Sky" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
50 mins; August 31, 2023
Kelzang T. Tashi, "World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
43 mins; August 24, 2023
Meditating Three Minutes a Day: A Conversation with Richard Dixey
63 hours 0 mins; August 22, 2023
Edyta Roszko, "Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam" (NIAS/University of Hawaii Press 2021
52 mins; August 16, 2023
Naomi Appleton, "Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40" (Equinox, 2020)
47 mins; August 14, 2023
Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
55 mins; August 13, 2023
Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
49 mins; August 08, 2023
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
47 mins; August 01, 2023
Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
61 hours 28 mins; July 30, 2023
Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)
45 mins; July 20, 2023
Awakening the Body (with Willa Baker)
60 hours 6 mins; July 08, 2023
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
42 mins; July 01, 2023
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
47 mins; June 29, 2023
Andy Karr, "Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality" (Shambhala, 2023)
61 hours 30 mins; June 25, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
48 mins; June 21, 2023
Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
101 hours 43 mins; June 16, 2023
Embodied and Trauma-Aware Pedagogy
64 hours 17 mins; June 04, 2023
Contemplative Psychotherapy: Intersections of Science, Spirituality and Buddhism
66 hours 35 mins; June 02, 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
36 mins; May 30, 2023
Curtis White on Buddhism and Transcendence
53 mins; May 29, 2023
Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
50 mins; May 22, 2023
Simon Cox on the Subtle Body
76 hours 11 mins; May 18, 2023
Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 52 mins; May 18, 2023
Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana
108 hours 12 mins; April 28, 2023
Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
37 mins; April 17, 2023
Healing Buddhist Studies (with Paula Arai)
55 mins; April 14, 2023
Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel
47 mins; April 01, 2023
A Review of "A Critique of Western Buddhism"
50 mins; March 28, 2023
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
63 hours 39 mins; March 25, 2023
Trent Walker, "Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia" (Shambhala, 2022)
101 hours 26 mins; March 22, 2023
Eugénie Mérieau, "Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
35 mins; March 06, 2023
Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
46 mins; March 02, 2023
Contemplative, Existential Psychotherapy and Dzogchen
88 hours 26 mins; February 28, 2023
Rick Repetti, "Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation" (Routledge, 2022)
50 mins; February 23, 2023
Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
65 hours 17 mins; February 20, 2023
Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
25 mins; February 16, 2023
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
47 mins; February 11, 2023
Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
55 mins; February 04, 2023
Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
46 mins; February 02, 2023
Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
57 mins; February 01, 2023
Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
49 mins; February 01, 2023
100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism
113 hours 42 mins; February 01, 2023
Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"
27 mins; January 17, 2023
Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship
55 mins; January 09, 2023
Zen Buddhism, Mardi Gras, and the Metaphysics of Eternity: Talking about Buddhist and Christian Mysticism
79 hours 15 mins; January 07, 2023
Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath
81 hours 58 mins; December 26, 2022
Wendi L. Adamek, "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (Hamburg Buddhist Studies, 2021)
90 hours 4 mins; December 23, 2022
Holly Walters, "Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
50 mins; December 22, 2022
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
43 mins; December 20, 2022
Jingjing Li, "Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
55 mins; December 17, 2022
Non-Duality: A Discussion with Peter Fenner
67 hours 51 mins; December 11, 2022
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
40 mins; December 08, 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
75 hours 37 mins; November 28, 2022
Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)
60 hours 3 mins; November 21, 2022
97 Buddhist Medicine and Buddhish
86 hours 39 mins; November 18, 2022
Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
58 mins; October 20, 2022
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
97 hours 0 mins; October 19, 2022
On Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Gorampa Sonam Senge
61 hours 44 mins; October 06, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
37 mins; October 04, 2022
NBN Classic: Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality" (Repeater Books, 2019)
91 hours 28 mins; October 02, 2022
NBN Classic: Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity" (Yale UP, 2019)
89 hours 24 mins; October 01, 2022
95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park
70 hours 37 mins; September 30, 2022
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
82 hours 9 mins; September 23, 2022
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
49 mins; September 16, 2022
On the Buddhist Life
56 mins; September 15, 2022
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
56 mins; September 13, 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
74 hours 44 mins; September 01, 2022
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
54 mins; July 14, 2022
On Tonglen Meditation
45 mins; July 13, 2022
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
64 hours 11 mins; July 07, 2022
Derrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon
115 hours 5 mins; July 01, 2022
On the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
52 mins; June 27, 2022
Brad Warner, "The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being" (New World Library, 2022)
56 mins; June 21, 2022
Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
62 hours 44 mins; June 20, 2022
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
28 mins; June 20, 2022
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
40 mins; June 16, 2022
On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics
47 mins; June 16, 2022
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
47 mins; June 14, 2022
On Buddhism Beyond Modernity
60 hours 52 mins; June 13, 2022
On Koans
54 mins; June 10, 2022
Roger R. Jackson, "Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World" (Shambhala, 2022)
54 mins; June 09, 2022
Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nietzsche is a Buddha
112 hours 51 mins; June 08, 2022
On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism
45 mins; May 31, 2022
Dean Sluyter, "The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics" (New World Library, 2022)
58 mins; May 27, 2022
On the Internment of Japanese Buddhists in World War Two
57 mins; May 25, 2022
Mayfair Yang, "Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
83 hours 22 mins; May 24, 2022
91 Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha
83 hours 56 mins; May 20, 2022
Annabella Pitkin, "Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
82 hours 32 mins; May 20, 2022
On Buddhism for Children
50 mins; May 11, 2022
Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)
30 mins; May 06, 2022
On Rinzai Zen Life in Japan
66 hours 27 mins; May 06, 2022
89 Daniel Ingram on Practice
87 hours 12 mins; May 04, 2022