New Books in Buddhist Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Buddhism about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 387
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
On Soto Zen
Brad Warner is the author of several books on Zen. A Soto Zen priest, he is a punk bassist, filmmaker, Japanese-monster-movie marketer, and popular blogger based in Los Angeles.
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00:58:53 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Ruth Ozeki, whose most recent novel is The Book of Form and Emptiness, speaks with critic Rebecca Evans and guest host Emily Hyde. This is a conversation about talking books, the randomness and seren…
00:41:02 |
Thu 03 Mar 2022
On Rinzai Zen Buddhism
Seido Ray Ronci is a Rinzai Zen monk and the director of the Hokoku-An Zendo meditation center in Columbia, Missouri. He is the author of the poetry collection The Skeleton of the Crow, winner of the…
00:38:18 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Eviatar Shulman's Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture (Oxford University Press, 2021) offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the…
00:53:30 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
Jay L. Garfield, "Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2021)
In Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration (Oxford University Press, 2022), Jay Garfield argues that Buddhist ethics is a distinctive kind of moral phenomenology whose ethical focus is not prima…
01:02:07 |
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
Following the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism in the first half of the twentieth century, Indo-Tibetan Buddhist teachings such as Mahāmudrā have become increasingly popular around the world. Drawn …
01:35:41 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
Richard Payne, ed., "Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition" (Shambhala, 2021)
A timely essay collection on the development and influence of secular expressions of Buddhism in the West and beyond.
How do secular values impact Buddhism in the modern world? What versions of Buddh…
00:56:48 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Karen Derris, "Storied Companions: Trauma, Cancer, and Finding Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives" (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
Facing a terminal cancer diagnosis, Karen Derris—professor, mother, and Buddhist practitioner—instinctually turned to books. By rereading ancient Buddhist stories with fresh questions and a new purpo…
01:03:54 |
Wed 09 Feb 2022
85 Secular Buddhism, Part 1: Winton Higgins
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 the everyday choice of how to be in the world, how t…
01:05:43 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
84 Practice Item no. 1
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, whilst tackling complexity, doubt, and ecological tho…
00:35:54 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Elizabeth J. Harris, "Buddhism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
In Elizabeth J. Harris' Buddhism in Five Minutes (Equinox Publishing, 2021), academic specialists offer answers to 75 questions about Buddhism that people curious about Buddhism might ask. The questi…
00:38:11 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and in…
01:21:38 |
Mon 03 Jan 2022
Ian Reader and John Shultz, "Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Ian Reader and John Shultz's Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku (Oxford University Press, 2021)" explores the Shikoku pilgrimage by focusing on the themes of repetition and perpetu…
00:58:26 |
Wed 22 Dec 2021
83 Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism
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 at his work in the book Secularizing Buddhism, an…
01:17:54 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
I recently sat down with Josep M. Coll to discuss his new book Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation (Routledge, 2021). This book is the latest and fina…
00:55:32 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
A scholarly yet accessible biography of the Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje, one of the great historical figures of Tibetan Buddhism.
Known for his mastery of teachings across sectarian lines, his trea…
00:59:00 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
What happened to the Buddhist scholars who stayed behind in Tibet and China after the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of Tibetans fled from the People’s Liberation Army in 1959?
In Lineages of th…
01:08:11 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Richard Harrold, "My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism from a LGBTQI Perspective" (Sumeru Press, 2019)
Welcome to the Queer Voices of the South podcast on the New Books Network. In this episode, host John Marszalek interviews Richard Harrold about his book My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism from a LGBTQI Per…
01:04:10 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Alice Collett, "I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism" (Windhorse, 2021)
Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? How have Buddhist women responded to misogyny? Alice Collett's new book, I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to …
00:43:48 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Chenxing Han, "Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse, inclu…
00:55:50 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
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