The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford podcast features faculty, graduate students, visiting speakers, and alumni in conversation with Communications Manager Miles Osgood on the history, philosophy, and practice of Buddhism.
Interviews are intended to be both academic and accessible: topics range from scholarly publications and insights to personal journeys and reflections.
Interview videos are posted on YouTube, @thehocenterforbuddhiststudies. For more information about our events, speakers, and research, visit buddhiststudies.stanford.edu.
- Update frequency
- every 31 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 6
- Years Active
- 2025
Allan Ding: Chan Ritual and the Zhāi Feast
Miles Osgood talks to Allan Ding about why the Chan monk Moheyan lost the 8th-century “Samyé Debate” over the future of Tibetan Buddhism, how medieval Chinese Buddhists shifted from “antiritualism” t…
Marcus Bingenheimer: AI and Total Translation
Miles Osgood talks to Marcus Bingenheimer about why new tools in the Digital Humanities demand new genres of scholarship, what network analysis reveals about the transmission of religious ideas in me…
Julian Butterfield: Joy in the Lotus Sūtra
Miles Osgood talks to Julian Butterfield about the winding path to a dissertation topic, overcoming exegetical resistance to emotional affect in religious literature, and the central role of joyful a…
Pia Brancaccio: Cave Monasteries and the Cotton Road in Western Deccan
Miles Osgood talks to Pia Brancaccio about the Buddhist cave monasteries of Western Deccan, the inter-continental exchange of "Maritime Buddhism" along the "Cotton Road," and the competition between …
Stephen Bokenkamp: Daoism and Buddhism in China
Miles Osgood talks to Stephen Bokenkamp about his fieldwork in China after the Cultural Revolution, how to better understand the original encounter between Daoism and Buddhism in the 2nd to 6th centu…
Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā: Integrating Academic and Monastic Lives
Miles Osgood talks to Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā about the journey of her research in relation to the historical transmission of Buddhist texts, the process of integrating her two lives as an academi…