Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDerrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon
Episode 94
In an historic event, the second Buddha himself Nagarjuna returns from the dead to team up with Jacques Derrida, non-Buddha, perhaps, to take on empt…
3 years, 9 months ago
On the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Season 1 Episode 119
Ben Connelly is a Minneapolis-based Soto Zen teacher in the Katagiri-lineage. He offers a wide variety of secular mindfulness trainings, including fo…
3 years, 9 months ago
Brad Warner, "The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being" (New World Library, 2022)
Episode 240
In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality -- the realization that e…
3 years, 9 months ago
Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 284
Mark Siderits’ How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) is a wide-ranging survey of how Buddhist philo…
3 years, 10 months ago
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Episode 134
What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia?
How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession cu…
3 years, 10 months ago
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Episode 192
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism (Bloomsbury, 2021) revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia…
3 years, 10 months ago
On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics
Season 1 Episode 112
Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan’s Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother’…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Episode 17
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer peopl…
3 years, 10 months ago
On Buddhism Beyond Modernity
Season 1 Episode 109
Dr. Ann Gleig is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida. She is co-editor of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in…
3 years, 10 months ago
On Koans
Season 1 Episode 108
Corey Ichigen Hess is an ordained Zen monk and body therapist. He lived a monastic life for many years at Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan. He…
3 years, 10 months ago