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Rafal Felbur: From the Chinese Canon to the Large Language Model (Part 1)
Season 1 Episode 17
Rafal Felbur talks about Chinese and Tibetan texts that preserve Indic sources lost in Sanskrit, the early Chinese exegetes who imposed a restrictive…
9 hours ago
Oriane Lavolé: Revealing Treasures in Tibet
Season 1 Episode 16
Oriane Lavolé talks about the history of treasure revealers (tertöns) from 11th-century Tibet to contemporary Nepal, how apologists for the treasure …
1 month ago
Travelogue: The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
Season 1 Episode 15
At the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, we talk to professors, monastics, and laypeople about the acquisition of the historic prope…
2 months ago
Christian Luczanits: Mustang Art and the Myth of the Hidden Kingdom
Season 1 Episode 14
Christian Luczanits talks about the eccentricities of early Buddhist art in the Mustang region of the Himalayas, the intellectual exchange that ran t…
3 months ago
Chiew Hui Ho: The Lives of Sūtras
Season 1 Episode 13
Chiew Hui Ho talks about parasutraic texts in medieval China that chronicle devotion to specific sūtras, how these histories give us a picture of “Bu…
4 months ago
Joshua Capitanio: The Work of the Scholar-Librarian
Season 1 Episode 12
Joshua Capitanio talks about his graduate work on medieval Chinese Buddho-Daoism, how translation projects and “second book” arguments are valued ins…
5 months ago
Book Notes: Meir Shahar, "Kings of Oxen and Horses"
Season 1 Episode 11
Meir Shahar talks about the cult worship of the “Ox King” and the “Horse King” in China. Working at the intersection of scriptural studies and field …
6 months ago
Book Notes: Adeana McNicholl, "Of Ancestors and Ghosts"
Season 1 Episode 10
Adeana McNicholl talks about the misunderstood realm of the “pretas,” typically translated as the home of “hungry ghosts” but in fact host to an enti…
7 months ago
Travelogue: Gil Fronsdal and the Insight Meditation Center
Season 1 Episode 9
Gil Fronsdal talks about studying in Buddhist monasteries from Big Sur to Bangkok, founding the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, and creati…
8 months ago
James Gentry: The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill
Season 1 Episode 8
James Gentry talks about the thousand-year history of the Tibetan maṇi pill, back to its medieval origins in an age of Mongol invasions and epidemics…
9 months ago