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88 Doubt: Part 2
26 mins; May 04, 2022
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
31 mins; May 04, 2022
Scott Stonington, "The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" (U California Press, 2020)
53 mins; April 25, 2022
C. Pierce Salguero, "Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical" (Beacon Press, 2022)
51 mins; April 22, 2022
On Sanctuary and San Francisco Zen Center
33 mins; April 21, 2022
Corey Landon Wozniak, "The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City" (Revealer, 2022)
41 mins; April 18, 2022
Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
49 mins; April 15, 2022
Robert Barnett et al., "Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold : Essays and Primary Documents" (Brill, 2020)
109 hours 18 mins; April 13, 2022
On Zen in America, Shunryu Suzuki, and the San Francisco Zen Center
61 hours 33 mins; April 05, 2022
Mark Epstein, "The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life" (Penguin, 2022)
49 mins; April 01, 2022
China, Buddhism and the Belt and Road Initiative in Mainland Southeast Asia
24 mins; March 31, 2022
On the Rinzai Way and Korinji Monastery
52 mins; March 28, 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
51 mins; March 25, 2022
On "Naked Monk," Diligence, and Buddhist Practice
54 mins; March 24, 2022
On the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki
49 mins; March 22, 2022
On Writing and the Monk Life
61 hours 7 mins; March 18, 2022
On Jesuits and Zen
57 mins; March 17, 2022
On Chan Buddhism
54 mins; March 15, 2022
On Korean Zen Buddhism
54 mins; March 10, 2022
Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, "Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
66 hours 36 mins; March 10, 2022
87 Stef Aupers on Conspirituality
74 hours 52 mins; March 08, 2022
On Accidental Buddhism and the Writer's Life
46 mins; March 07, 2022
86 Doubt: Part 1
23 mins; March 07, 2022
On Soto Zen
58 mins; March 03, 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
41 mins; March 03, 2022
On Rinzai Zen Buddhism
38 mins; February 28, 2022
Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
53 mins; February 23, 2022
Jay L. Garfield, "Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2021)
62 hours 7 mins; February 21, 2022
Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
95 hours 41 mins; February 14, 2022
Richard Payne, ed., "Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition" (Shambhala, 2021)
56 mins; February 10, 2022
Karen Derris, "Storied Companions: Trauma, Cancer, and Finding Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives" (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
63 hours 54 mins; February 09, 2022
85 Secular Buddhism, Part 1: Winton Higgins
65 hours 43 mins; January 28, 2022
84 Practice Item no. 1
35 mins; January 25, 2022
Elizabeth J. Harris, "Buddhism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
38 mins; January 24, 2022
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
81 hours 38 mins; January 03, 2022
Ian Reader and John Shultz, "Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku" (Oxford UP, 2021)
58 mins; December 22, 2021
83 Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism
77 hours 54 mins; December 02, 2021
Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
55 mins; November 19, 2021
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
59 mins; November 18, 2021
Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
68 hours 11 mins; November 17, 2021
Richard Harrold, "My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism from a LGBTQI Perspective" (Sumeru Press, 2019)
64 hours 10 mins; November 16, 2021
Alice Collett, "I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism" (Windhorse, 2021)
43 mins; November 02, 2021
Chenxing Han, "Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
55 mins; October 20, 2021
Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bƍtƍ" (Cornell UP, 2021)
54 mins; October 19, 2021
Sharing Scholarship: Academic Publishing and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Finland
27 mins; October 08, 2021
Pankaj Mirshra, “Turning the Mirror: A View From the East” (Open Agenda, 2021)
84 hours 37 mins; October 07, 2021
Orion Klautau and Hans Martin KrÀmer, "Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
65 hours 21 mins; October 06, 2021
Pamela Ayo Yetunde on being Black and Buddhist
54 mins; August 25, 2021
Ilana Maymind, "Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides" (Lexington Books, 2020)
46 mins; August 13, 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
52 mins; July 29, 2021
Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
50 mins; July 28, 2021
A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist
53 mins; July 22, 2021
Sokthan Yeng, "Buddhist Feminism: Transforming Anger against Patriarchy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
70 hours 54 mins; July 20, 2021
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
46 mins; June 25, 2021
Seth Zuihƍ Segall, "Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
65 hours 13 mins; June 25, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
64 hours 38 mins; June 18, 2021
Michael Nichols, "Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil" (SUNY Press, 2020)
37 mins; June 17, 2021
Teaching Buddhist Studies Online: A Discussion with Kate Hartmann
66 hours 55 mins; April 30, 2021
Bhante Saranapala: The Urban Buddhist Monk
49 mins; April 28, 2021
A. Castiglioni and F. Rambelli, "Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
51 mins; April 26, 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
41 mins; April 23, 2021
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, "A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
73 hours 25 mins; April 23, 2021
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
71 hours 19 mins; April 22, 2021
Stephen Fulder, "What's Beyond Mindfulness? Waking Up to This Precious Life" (Watkins, 2019)
51 mins; April 14, 2021
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong" (SUNY Press, 2020)
47 mins; April 01, 2021
Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
45 mins; March 17, 2021
Hans Martin KrÀmer, "Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan" (U of Hawaii Press, 2016)
79 hours 10 mins; March 16, 2021
Steven Collins, "Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined" (ï»żColumbia UP, 2020)
55 mins; March 15, 2021
Fabio Rambelli, "The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
73 hours 17 mins; February 26, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between: A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
22 mins; February 25, 2021
Ji Zhe et al., "Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
92 hours 41 mins; February 24, 2021
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
66 hours 50 mins; January 29, 2021
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist Tourism in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
61 hours 46 mins; December 22, 2020
Geoffrey C. Goble, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2019)
70 hours 54 mins; December 15, 2020
Michal Pagis, "Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
63 hours 57 mins; December 14, 2020
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea" (Oxford UP, 2020)
69 hours 1 min; December 09, 2020
Pilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action" (Shambala, 2017)
56 mins; November 10, 2020
Caroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community" (Routledge, 2019)
69 hours 5 mins; November 06, 2020
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
84 hours 43 mins; November 03, 2020
Lost Temples of the Jungle: A History of Mrauk-U with Dr. Bob Hudson
17 mins; October 22, 2020
Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
52 mins; September 30, 2020
Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages" (Shambala Publications, 2020)
48 mins; September 30, 2020
Joshua Esler, "Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society" (Lexington Books, 2020)
61 hours 46 mins; September 24, 2020
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism" (Rowman, 2015)
60 hours 17 mins; September 22, 2020
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" (Shambhala, 2020)
52 mins; September 14, 2020
Steven Heine, "Readings of Dƍgen's 'Treasury of the True Dharma Eye'"(Columbia UP, 2020)
56 mins; September 09, 2020
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2020)
50 mins; August 31, 2020
Mark A. Nathan, "From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
93 hours 34 mins; July 28, 2020
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Living Landscapes
81 hours 12 mins; July 24, 2020
Mayfair Yang, "Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China" (Duke UP, 2020)
63 hours 28 mins; July 23, 2020
Angela S. Chiu, "The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
55 mins; July 20, 2020
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A ƚabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
65 hours 7 mins; July 17, 2020
Sara Smith, "Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
75 hours 54 mins; July 15, 2020
Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
59 mins; July 14, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
120 hours 37 mins; June 02, 2020
Johan Elverskog, "The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia" (U Penn Press, 2020)
89 hours 4 mins; May 21, 2020
Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ƭich’Ən" (U Hawaii Press, 2016)
72 hours 36 mins; May 12, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
59 mins; April 28, 2020
Gregory Scott, "Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
49 mins; April 16, 2020
C. Baker and P. Phongpaichit, "From the Fifty Jātaka: Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka" (Silkworm Books, 2019)
85 hours 16 mins; April 02, 2020
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