Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
Episode 433
Following the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism in the first half of the twentieth century, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist teachings such as Mahāmudrā have be…
4 years, 2 months ago
Richard Payne, ed., "Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition" (Shambhala, 2021)
Episode 86
A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond.
How do secular values impact Bud…
4 years, 2 months ago
Karen Derris, "Storied Companions: Trauma, Cancer, and Finding Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives" (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
Episode 85
Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derris—professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner—instinctually turned to books. By rereading ancient Bud…
4 years, 2 months ago
85 Secular Buddhism, Part 1: Winton Higgins
Episode 85
In the practising life, choices must be made. Those choices occur at all levels from big picture views of the world, a whole life, and society, to th…
4 years, 2 months ago
84 Practice Item no. 1
Episode 84
Take a trip to the Great Feast in this first in a series of posts on the practising life. Non-Buddhism meets post-traditional slants on practice, whi…
4 years, 2 months ago
Elizabeth J. Harris, "Buddhism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
Episode 84
In Elizabeth J. Harris' Buddhism in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2021), academic specialists offer answers to 75 questions about Buddhism that p…
4 years, 2 months ago
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Episode 83
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ian Reader and John Shultz, "Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Episode 60
Ian Reader and John Shultz's Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku (Oxford University Press, 2021)" explores the Shikoku pilgrimage b…
4 years, 3 months ago
83 Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism
Episode 83
Today I speak to Stephen Batchelor, figurehead for Secular Buddhism, well known author, and Scot. I present the lovely man some of the critique aimed…
4 years, 4 months ago
Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 38
I recently sat down with Josep M. Coll to discuss his new book Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation (…
4 years, 5 months ago