The Wisdom Podcast
A podcast from Wisdom Publications where we interview leading thinkers from the Buddhist world.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 64 minutes
- Episodes
- 105
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Anne C. Klein: Being Human and a Buddha Too (#174)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast was recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat with special guest, Anne C. Klein. Anne is a professor and former chair of the religion department at Rice University. She…
Sangye Khandro: The Parinirvana of Venerable Dhomang Gyatrul Rinpoche (#173)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest, Sangye Khandro. During this episode host Daniel Aitken and Sangye discuss Venerable Dhomang Gyatrul …
Jay Garfield: Buddhist Philosophy In-Depth (#172)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Jay Garfield. Jay Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and D…
Geshe Tenzin Namdak: The Mind and Knowing (#171)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features Geshe Tenzin Namdak. Geshe Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher, having graduated with a bachelor of s…
Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo: The Signless and the Deathless (#170)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo. Venerable Anālayo is a scholar, meditation teacher, and author. He completed his PhD research on the Satipaṭṭhānasutta at the Un…
H. E. Kalu Rinpoche: The Yoga of Niguma (#169)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features H. E. Kalu Rinpoche. Rinpoche is the Lineage Holder of Shangpa Kagyu. He was born in 1990 and recognized by H. H. th…
Thupten Jinpa: Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics (#168)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Thupten Jinpa and host Daniel Aitken in a discussion about the series Science and Philosophy in the In…
Lama Tsomo: Ancient Wisdom for Our Times (#167)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, features Lama Tsomo. Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice in acces…
Malcolm Smith: Dzogchen: Ten Key Terms (#166)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a special guest, Malcolm Smith. Malcolm Smith has been a student of the Great Perfection teachings since 1992 and g…
Khandro Kunga Bumma: Bodhicitta, Happiness, and Interdependence (#165)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a special guest, Khandro Kunga Bumma. As a young woman, Khando-la had a vision to leave her homeland of Tibet and g…
Karl Brunnhölzl: Sounds of Innate Freedom: Volume 3 (#164)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features the return of special guest Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, PhD. Karl was originally trained as a physician. He received his s…
Geshe Tenzin Namdak: Freedom Through Correct Knowing (#163)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Geshe Tenzin Namdak. After completing his university studies in Hydrology, Geshe la worked as an environmental researcher in the Netherlands. He began stud…
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Dharma in the Modern World (#162)
In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, Wisdom CEO Daniel Aitken interviews renowned teachers Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. This conversation heralded the beginning of the 2020 …
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi: Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali (#161)
This Wisdom Podcast filmed as a live Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Venerable Bhikku Bodhi. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City, born in 1944. He obtained a …
Karl Brunnhölzl: Sounds of Innate Freedom (#160)
This Wisdom Podcast filmed as a live Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Karl Brunnhölzl. Originally trained as a physician, Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, PhD, received his systematic training in Tibeta…
His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche: Mahāmudrā (#159)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche speaking with host Daniel Aitken. His Eminence the 1…
Shaila Catherine: Beyond Distraction (#158)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Shaila Catherine, who has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than eight years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught insigh…
Cortland Dahl: Meditation and Neuroscience (#157)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Cortland Dahl speaking with host Daniel Aitken. Cortland is a scientist, translator, and meditation teacher who off…
Robert Thurman & Susan A. Landesman: The Tārā Tantra (#156)
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Susan A. Landesman interviewed by Prof. Robert Thurman and host Daniel Aitken.
Susan A. Landesman, independent scho…
Koshin Paley Ellison: Untangled (#155)
This Wisdom Podcast features Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Koshin is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. He has six years of training at the Jungian Psy…