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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…
10 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…
11 months ago
Ralph H. Craig III: Preachers and Teachers, from the Dharmabhāṇakas to Tina Turner
Season 1 Episode 7
Ralph H. Craig III talks about crafting constructive analogies between Christian and Buddhist liturgies, characterizing the ideal preachers (dharmabh…
1 year ago
Allan Ding: Chan Ritual and the Zhāi Feast
Season 1 Episode 6
Allan Ding talks about why the Chan monk Moheyan lost the 8th-century “Samyé Debate” over the future of Tibetan Buddhism, how medieval Chinese Buddhi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Marcus Bingenheimer: AI and Total Translation
Season 1 Episode 5
Marcus Bingenheimer talks about why new tools in the Digital Humanities demand new genres of scholarship, what network analysis reveals about the tra…
1 year, 2 months ago
Julian Butterfield: Joy in the Lotus Sūtra
Season 1 Episode 4
Julian Butterfield talks about the winding path to a dissertation topic, overcoming exegetical resistance to emotional affect in religious literature…
1 year, 3 months ago
Pia Brancaccio: Cave Monasteries and the Cotton Road in Western Deccan
Season 1 Episode 3
Pia Brancaccio talks about the Buddhist cave monasteries of Western Deccan, the inter-continental exchange of "Maritime Buddhism" along the "Cotton R…
1 year, 4 months ago
Stephen Bokenkamp: Daoism and Buddhism in China
Season 1 Episode 2
Stephen Bokenkamp talks about his fieldwork in China after the Cultural Revolution, how to better understand the original encounter between Daoism an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā: Integrating Academic and Monastic Lives
Season 1 Episode 1
Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā talks about the journey of her research in relation to the historical transmission of Buddhist texts, the process of integ…
1 year, 6 months ago