Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNBN Classic: Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity" (Yale UP, 2019)
Episode 48
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
In her new book, American Dhar…
3 years, 6 months ago
95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park
Episode 95
Welcome to the new season of the Imperfect Buddha Podcast. After a well-earned and challenging summer filled with drought, war, political strife and …
3 years, 6 months ago
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Episode 95
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world.…
3 years, 6 months ago
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 40
Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works,…
3 years, 7 months ago
On the Buddhist Life
Season 1 Episode 186
Andrea Miller is an editor at Lion’s Roar magazine and is the author of Awakening My Heart: Essays, Articles and Interviews on the Buddhist Life, out…
3 years, 7 months ago
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Episode 93
Often represented as a tradition of ancient origins, Shugendō has retained a quality of mystery and nostalgia in the public imagination and scholars …
3 years, 7 months ago
On Japanese Buddhist Art
Season 1 Episode 175
Rachel Quist specializes in East Asian Buddhist imagery with focuses in pre-modern Japan and China. Her research centers on questions of interaction …
3 years, 7 months ago
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Episode 122
How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change?
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2022…
3 years, 9 months ago
On Tonglen Meditation
Season 1 Episode 131
Lama Palden Drolma is a western teacher trained by Tibetan Buddhist masters. She the founder of Sukhasiddhi Foundation. She is a licensed psychothera…
3 years, 9 months ago
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 77
What is the evolutionary purpose of religion, and are some individuals more inclined than others to be religious?
Our species diverged from the great …
3 years, 9 months ago