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
Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Does human existence have a meaning? If so, is that meaning found in the world outside of us, or is it something we bring to our experience? In Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life i…
00:58:09 |
Thu 20 Oct 2022
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
What would an “anti-field history” of Buddhist Studies look like? What does the social history of knowledge look like when it both includes and exceeds the West/Nonwest binary, the ethnonational subj…
01:37:00 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
On Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Gorampa Sonam Senge
Constance Kassor is an assistant professor of religious studies at Lawrence University, where she teaches courses on Buddhist thought and Asian religious traditions. Her research focuses on Tibetan B…
01:01:44 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant…
00:37:47 |
Tue 04 Oct 2022
NBN Classic: Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality" (Repeater Books, 2019)
This episode proved remarkably popular, so we're reposting it as an NBN classic for those who missed it the first time.
In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist …
01:31:28 |
Sun 02 Oct 2022
NBN Classic: Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity" (Yale UP, 2019)
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 Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity (Yale University Pr…
01:29:24 |
Sat 01 Oct 2022
95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park
Welcome to the new season of the Imperfect Buddha Podcast. After a well-earned and challenging summer filled with drought, war, political strife and ridiculous heat, we’re back in the saddle and rari…
01:10:37 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. Expansively illustrated with multiple maps and il…
01:22:09 |
Fri 23 Sep 2022
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, they attempted to determine as precisely as possi…
00:49:10 |
Fri 16 Sep 2022
On the Buddhist Life
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 now from Pottersfield Press.
Learn more about you…
00:56:45 |
Thu 15 Sep 2022
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Often represented as a tradition of ancient origins, Shugendō has retained a quality of mystery and nostalgia in the public imagination and scholars as the “original” champions of mountain asceticism…
00:56:18 |
Tue 13 Sep 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
Rachel Quist specializes in East Asian Buddhist imagery with focuses in pre-modern Japan and China. Her research centers on questions of interaction with imagery, materiality and object agency, and t…
01:14:44 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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) is an edited collection that explores the diver…
00:54:10 |
Thu 14 Jul 2022
On Tonglen Meditation
Lama Palden Drolma is a western teacher trained by Tibetan Buddhist masters. She the founder of Sukhasiddhi Foundation. She is a licensed psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, coach, and has studied Bu…
00:45:05 |
Wed 13 Jul 2022
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
What is the evolutionary purpose of religion, and are some individuals more inclined than others to be religious?
Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years ago. Since then, …
01:04:11 |
Thu 07 Jul 2022
Derrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon
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 emptiness. They clash with identity politics. Bump int…
01:55:05 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
On the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Ben Connelly is a Minneapolis-based Soto Zen teacher in the Katagiri-lineage. He offers a wide variety of secular mindfulness trainings, including for police departments, corporate settings, correcti…
00:52:03 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Brad Warner, "The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being" (New World Library, 2022)
In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality -- the realization that everything in the universe forms a single, integrat…
00:56:02 |
Tue 21 Jun 2022
Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Mark Siderits’ How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) is a wide-ranging survey of how Buddhist philosophers think about the nature of the world. The b…
01:02:44 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia?
How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession cults in the 21st century and what has led to the e…
00:28:47 |
Mon 20 Jun 2022
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