New Books in Buddhist Studies

On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics

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’s Table to Working the Line from Random House, num…

00:47:23 | Thu 16 Jun 2022

Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism (Bloomsbury, 2021) revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop a…

00:40:26 | Thu 16 Jun 2022

The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar

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 people belong to a religion – the number for the UK is …

00:47:41 | Tue 14 Jun 2022

On Buddhism Beyond Modernity

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 America to American Hinduism and has published wi…

01:00:52 | Mon 13 Jun 2022

On Koans

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 teaches meditation classes and works with individ…

00:54:25 | Fri 10 Jun 2022

Roger R. Jackson, "Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World" (Shambhala, 2022)

Although Buddhism is one of the religious traditions best known for asserting rebirth, the history and scope of Buddhist approaches to the idea has not received comprehensive treatment—until now. Thi…

00:54:04 | Thu 09 Jun 2022

Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nietzsche is a Buddha

Welcome to this Great feast conversation. Philosophy Professor at Seattle University, Soto Zen Priest, Sangha leader, and Dharma teacher, Jason M. Wirth is the author of Nietzsche and other Buddhas: …

01:52:51 | Wed 08 Jun 2022

On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism

Rima Fujita was born in Tokyo and now resides in Southern California. She graduated from Parsons School of Design with her B.F.A. and has exhibited her work internationally to much acclaim. As a desc…

00:45:29 | Tue 31 May 2022

Dean Sluyter, "The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics" (New World Library, 2022)

Today I talked to Dean Sluyter about his book The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics (New World Library, 2022). Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . l…

00:58:36 | Fri 27 May 2022

On the Internment of Japanese Buddhists in World War Two

Duncan Ryuken Williams was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father. After growing up in Japan and England until age 17, he moved to the U.S. to attend college (Reed College) and …

00:57:09 | Wed 25 May 2022

Mayfair Yang, "Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)

An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) brings together Chinese…

01:23:22 | Tue 24 May 2022

91 Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha

Today I talk with Peter Salmon, author of An Event, Perhaps; an intellectual biography of Jacques Derrida. Our conversation was rich: We tackle Derrida and Buddhism, Derrida and the culture wars, Der…

01:23:56 | Fri 20 May 2022

Annabella Pitkin, "Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this elusive wanderi…

01:22:32 | Fri 20 May 2022

On Buddhism for Children

Andrea Miller is the deputy editor of Lion's Roar magazine (formerly the Shambhala Sun), a publication force within Buddhism that so many of you will already know, and the author of two picture books…

00:50:03 | Wed 11 May 2022

On Rinzai Zen Life in Japan

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 teaches meditation classes and works with individ…

01:06:27 | Fri 06 May 2022

Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)

How does queer life fit into Buddhism and ritual? What role do gay men and trans women play in the practice of spirit mediumship and how do queer spirit mediums mediate between Thailand’s religious f…

00:30:50 | Fri 06 May 2022

The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism

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