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Interviews with Scholars of Buddhism about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies

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Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2024
William S. Waldron, "Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
Apr 04, 2024
Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
Mar 31, 2024
Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron
Mar 23, 2024
Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Mar 14, 2024
Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Feb 26, 2024
Buddhist Medicine in Contemporary Times (with Pierce Salguero)
Feb 09, 2024
Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 08, 2024
Daniel Capper, "Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 05, 2024
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" (Random House, 2004)
Jan 17, 2024
Douglas S. Duckworth, "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 15, 2024
Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality
Jan 08, 2024
Women and the Body in Buddhism
Jan 07, 2024
M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, "The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet" (SUNY Press, 2019)
Jan 05, 2024
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
Dec 30, 2023
Ralph H. Craig, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Dec 29, 2023
Alice Collett, "Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History" (Oxford UP, 2016)
Dec 26, 2023
Reading the Stars: When Divination Meets Politics in Thailand
Dec 22, 2023
Tyler Dalton McNabb and Erik Baldwin, "Classical Theism and Buddhism: Connecting Metaphysical and Ethical Systems" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Dec 20, 2023
Oren Jay Sofer, "Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love" (Shambhala, 2023)
Dec 10, 2023
David McMahan on Rethinking Meditation
Dec 04, 2023
Shuchen Xiang, "Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The History and Philosophy of an Idea" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Nov 29, 2023
Lama Rod Owens, "The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors" (Sounds True, 2023)
Nov 19, 2023
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
Nov 18, 2023
Ross Gay, "The Book of (More) Delights: Essays" (Algonquin Books, 2023)
Nov 17, 2023
A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
Nov 11, 2023
Ralph H. Craig III, "Dancing in My Dreams: A Spiritual Biography of Tina Turner" (Eerdmans, 2023)
Nov 10, 2023
A.I. and Practice with Stuart Baldwin
Nov 10, 2023
Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)
Nov 08, 2023
Wake up! (Part 3) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts
Nov 02, 2023
Wake up! (Part 2) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts
Oct 26, 2023
Cleric, Cadre, Businessman: China’s Development Strategy in Sri Lanka
Oct 20, 2023
Wake up! (Part 1) An Antidote to Stupidity in Three Parts
Oct 19, 2023
Buddhist Healing in Contemporary Japan (with Rev. Nathan Jishin Michon)
Oct 10, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Oct 05, 2023
Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew eds., "Buddhist Masculinities" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Sep 22, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Situating Religion and Medicine (with Michael Stanley-Baker)
Sep 08, 2023
Anne Klein, "Being Human and a Buddha Too: Longchenpa's Seven Trainings for a Sunlit Sky" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
Aug 31, 2023
Kelzang T. Tashi, "World of Worldly Gods: The Persistence and Transformation of Shamanic Bon in Buddhist Bhutan" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Aug 24, 2023
Meditating Three Minutes a Day: A Conversation with Richard Dixey
Aug 22, 2023
Edyta Roszko, "Fishers, Monks and Cadres: Navigating State, Religion and the South China Sea in Central Vietnam" (NIAS/University of Hawaii Press 2021
Aug 16, 2023
Naomi Appleton, "Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40" (Equinox, 2020)
Aug 14, 2023
Yiwen Li, "Networks of Faith and Profit: Monks, Merchants, and Exchanges Between China and Japan, 839-1403 CE" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Aug 13, 2023
Traditional Medicine in Laos (with Elizabeth Elliott and Ounkham Souksavanh)
Aug 08, 2023
Marnie Feneley, "Reconstructing God: Style, Hydraulics, Political Power and Angkor's West Mebon Visnu" (National U of Singapore Press, 2022)
Aug 01, 2023
Zhihua Yao, "Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Jul 30, 2023
Scott A. Mitchell, "The Making of American Buddhism" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023
Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)
Jul 20, 2023
Awakening the Body (with Willa Baker)
Jul 08, 2023
Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin, "Stereotyping Religion II: Critiquing Clichés" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 01, 2023
Nayanjot Lahiri, "Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand" (SUNY Press, 2023)
Jun 29, 2023
Andy Karr, "Into the Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality" (Shambhala, 2023)
Jun 25, 2023
Alexandra Kaloyanides, "Baptizing Burma: Religious Change in the Last Buddhist Kingdom" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jun 21, 2023
Douglas Ober, "Dust on the Throne: The Search for Buddhism in Modern India" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Jun 16, 2023
Embodied and Trauma-Aware Pedagogy
Jun 05, 2023
Contemplative Psychotherapy: Intersections of Science, Spirituality and Buddhism
Jun 02, 2023
Ashok Gopal, "A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar" (Navayana, 2023)
May 30, 2023
Curtis White on Buddhism and Transcendence
May 29, 2023
Sagang Sechen, "The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 22, 2023
Farah Godrej, "Freedom Inside?: Yoga and Meditation in the Carceral State" (Oxford UP, 2022)
May 18, 2023
Simon Cox on the Subtle Body
May 18, 2023
Ken McLeod on the Magic of Vajrayana
Apr 28, 2023
Doug Bates on the Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
Apr 17, 2023
Healing Buddhist Studies (with Paula Arai)
Apr 14, 2023
Incognito: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel
Apr 01, 2023
A Review of "A Critique of Western Buddhism"
Mar 28, 2023
Ching Keng, "Toward a New Image of Paramartha: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Mar 25, 2023
Trent Walker, "Until Nirvana's Time: Buddhist Songs from Cambodia" (Shambhala, 2022)
Mar 22, 2023
Eugénie Mérieau, "Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand's Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Mar 06, 2023
Veena R. Howard et al., "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Mar 02, 2023
Contemplative, Existential Psychotherapy and Dzogchen
Feb 28, 2023
Rick Repetti, "Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation" (Routledge, 2022)
Feb 23, 2023
Monima Chadha, "Selfless Minds: A Contemporary Perspective on Vasubandhu's Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 20, 2023
Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 16, 2023
Andrea Acri and Peter Sharrock, "The Creative South: Buddhist and Hindu Art in Mediaeval Maritime Asia" (Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
Buddhist Responses to COVID: A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana
Feb 04, 2023
Ute Hüsken, "Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance: Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Feb 02, 2023
100 Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism
Feb 01, 2023
Mikel Burley, "A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Feb 01, 2023
Brooke Schedneck, "Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand: Encounters with Buddhist Monks" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Feb 01, 2023
Nothing Matters: About the Idea of "Emptiness"
Jan 17, 2023
Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship
Jan 09, 2023
Zen Buddhism, Mardi Gras, and the Metaphysics of Eternity: Talking about Buddhist and Christian Mysticism
Jan 07, 2023
Buddhist Medicine in Tibet: A Discussion with Bill McGrath
Dec 26, 2022
Wendi L. Adamek, "Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan" (Hamburg Buddhist Studies, 2021)
Dec 23, 2022
Holly Walters, "Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Dec 22, 2022
Richard Brian Miller, "Why Study Religion?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 20, 2022
Jingjing Li, "Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Dec 17, 2022
Non-Duality: A Discussion with Peter Fenner
Dec 11, 2022
Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Dec 08, 2022
The Future of Religious Studies: A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon
Nov 28, 2022
Charles Goodman, "The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Nov 21, 2022
97 Buddhist Medicine and Buddhish
Nov 18, 2022
Leah Kalmanson, "Cross-Cultural Existentialism: On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 20, 2022
Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Oct 19, 2022
On Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and Gorampa Sonam Senge
Oct 06, 2022
Alison Melnick Dyer, "The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön: A Woman of Power and Privilege" (U Washington Press, 2022)
Oct 04, 2022
NBN Classic: Ronald E. Purser, "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality" (Repeater Books, 2019)
Oct 02, 2022
NBN Classic: Ann Gleig, "American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity" (Yale UP, 2019)
Oct 01, 2022
95 Intercultural Buddhism and Philosophy: A Discussion with Jin Y. Park
Sep 30, 2022
David Max Moerman, "The Japanese Buddhist World Map: Religious Vision and the Cartographic Imagination" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Sep 23, 2022
John Kieschnick, "Buddhist Historiography in China" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Sep 16, 2022
On the Buddhist Life
Sep 15, 2022
Caleb Swift Carter, "A Path Into the Mountains: Shugendō and Mount Togakushi" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Sep 13, 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
Sep 01, 2022
Evan Berry, "Climate Politics and the Power of Religion" (Indiana UP, 2022)
Jul 14, 2022
On Tonglen Meditation
Jul 13, 2022
Robin Dunbar, "How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Jul 07, 2022
Derrida Meets Nagarjuna, with Peter Salmon
Jul 01, 2022
On the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Jun 27, 2022
Brad Warner, "The Other Side of Nothing: The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being" (New World Library, 2022)
Jun 21, 2022
Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson, "Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia: Worlds Ever More Enchanted" (NIAS Press, 2022)
Jun 20, 2022
Mark Siderits, "How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 20, 2022
On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics
Jun 16, 2022
Karen O'Brien-Kop, "Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Jun 16, 2022
The Future of Religion: A Conversation with Robin Dunbar
Jun 14, 2022
On Buddhism Beyond Modernity
Jun 13, 2022
On Koans
Jun 10, 2022
Roger R. Jackson, "Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World" (Shambhala, 2022)
Jun 09, 2022
Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nietzsche is a Buddha
Jun 08, 2022
On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism
May 31, 2022
Dean Sluyter, "The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics" (New World Library, 2022)
May 27, 2022
On the Internment of Japanese Buddhists in World War Two
May 25, 2022
Mayfair Yang, "Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021)
May 24, 2022
Annabella Pitkin, "Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
May 20, 2022
91 Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha
May 20, 2022
On Buddhism for Children
May 11, 2022
On Rinzai Zen Life in Japan
May 06, 2022
Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann, "Deities and Divas: Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond" (NIAS Press, 2021)
May 06, 2022
89 Daniel Ingram on Practice
May 04, 2022
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
May 04, 2022
88 Doubt: Part 2
May 04, 2022
Scott Stonington, "The Spirit Ambulance: Choreographing the End of Life in Thailand" (U California Press, 2020)
Apr 25, 2022
C. Pierce Salguero, "Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical" (Beacon Press, 2022)
Apr 22, 2022
On Sanctuary and San Francisco Zen Center
Apr 21, 2022
Corey Landon Wozniak, "The Buddha at the Bellagio: (Teaching) Religion in Sin City" (Revealer, 2022)
Apr 18, 2022
Rossa Ó Muireartaigh, "The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Apr 15, 2022
Robert Barnett et al., "Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History Under Mao Retold : Essays and Primary Documents" (Brill, 2020)
Apr 13, 2022
On Zen in America, Shunryu Suzuki, and the San Francisco Zen Center
Apr 05, 2022
Mark Epstein, "The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life" (Penguin, 2022)
Apr 01, 2022
China, Buddhism and the Belt and Road Initiative in Mainland Southeast Asia
Mar 31, 2022
On the Rinzai Way and Korinji Monastery
Mar 28, 2022
On Japanese Buddhist Art
Mar 25, 2022
On "Naked Monk," Diligence, and Buddhist Practice
Mar 24, 2022
On the Zen Odyssey of Ruth and Sokei-an Sasaki
Mar 22, 2022
On Writing and the Monk Life
Mar 18, 2022
On Jesuits and Zen
Mar 17, 2022
On Chan Buddhism
Mar 15, 2022
On Korean Zen Buddhism
Mar 10, 2022
Jeffery D. Long and Michael G. Long, "Nonviolence in the World's Religions: A Concise Introduction" (Routledge, 2021)
Mar 10, 2022
87 Stef Aupers on Conspirituality
Mar 08, 2022
On Accidental Buddhism and the Writer's Life
Mar 07, 2022
86 Doubt: Part 1
Mar 07, 2022
On Soto Zen
Mar 03, 2022
3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
Mar 03, 2022
On Rinzai Zen Buddhism
Feb 28, 2022
Eviatar Shulman, "Visions of the Buddha: Creative Dimensions of Early Buddhist Scripture" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 23, 2022
Jay L. Garfield, "Buddhist Ethics: A Philosophical Exploration" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Feb 21, 2022
Dagmar Schwerk, "A Timely Message from the Cave" (2020)
Feb 14, 2022
Richard Payne, ed., "Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition" (Shambhala, 2021)
Feb 10, 2022
Karen Derris, "Storied Companions: Trauma, Cancer, and Finding Guides for Living in Buddhist Narratives" (Wisdom Publications, 2021)
Feb 09, 2022
85 Secular Buddhism, Part 1: Winton Higgins
Jan 28, 2022
84 Practice Item no. 1
Jan 25, 2022
Elizabeth J. Harris, "Buddhism in Five Minutes" (Equinox Publishing, 2021)
Jan 24, 2022
Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Jan 03, 2022
Ian Reader and John Shultz, "Pilgrims Until We Die: Unending Pilgrimage in Shikoku" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Dec 22, 2021
83 Stephen Batchelor on Secularizing Buddhism
Dec 02, 2021
Josep M. Coll, "Buddhist and Taoist Systems Thinking: The Natural Path to Sustainable Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
Nov 19, 2021
Ruth Gamble, "The Third Karmapa Rangjung Dorje: Master of Mahamudra" (Shambala, 2020)
Nov 18, 2021
Nicole Willock, "Lineages of the Literary: Tibetan Buddhist Polymaths of Socialist China" (Columbia UP, 2021)
Nov 17, 2021
Richard Harrold, "My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism from a LGBTQI Perspective" (Sumeru Press, 2019)
Nov 16, 2021
Alice Collett, "I Hear Her Words: An Introduction to Women in Buddhism" (Windhorse, 2021)
Nov 02, 2021
Chenxing Han, "Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists" (North Atlantic Books, 2021)
Oct 20, 2021
Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Oct 19, 2021
Sharing Scholarship: Academic Publishing and Teaching Tibetan Buddhism in Finland
Oct 08, 2021
Pankaj Mirshra, “Turning the Mirror: A View From the East” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 07, 2021
Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer, "Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Oct 06, 2021
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
Sep 15, 2021
Pamela Ayo Yetunde on being Black and Buddhist
Aug 25, 2021
Ilana Maymind, "Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Aug 13, 2021
Robin Derricourt, "Creating God: The Birth and Growth of Major Religions" ( Manchester UP, 2021)
Jul 29, 2021
Francis Wade, "Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other'" (Zed Books, 2017)
Jul 28, 2021
A Conversation with Greg Bailey: Sanskrit Scholar and Novelist
Jul 22, 2021
Sokthan Yeng, "Buddhist Feminism: Transforming Anger against Patriarchy" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
Jul 20, 2021
April D. Hughes, "Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism" (U Hawaii Press, 2021)
Jun 25, 2021
Seth Zuihō Segall, "Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Jun 25, 2021
Susan Blakeley Klein, "Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Jun 18, 2021
Michael Nichols, "Malleable Mara: Transformations of a Buddhist Symbol of Evil" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Jun 17, 2021
Teaching Buddhist Studies Online: A Discussion with Kate Hartmann
Apr 30, 2021
Bhante Saranapala: The Urban Buddhist Monk
Apr 28, 2021
A. Castiglioni and F. Rambelli, "Defining Shugendo: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Apr 26, 2021
Thomas Robinson and Hillary Rodrigues, "World Religions Reader: Understanding Our Religious World" (ROBINEST, 2020)
Apr 23, 2021
Uranchimeg Tsultemin, "A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Apr 23, 2021
Brenton Sullivan, "Building a Religious Empire: Tibetan Buddhism, Bureaucracy, and the Rise of the Gelukpa" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
Apr 22, 2021
Stephen Fulder, "What's Beyond Mindfulness? Waking Up to This Precious Life" (Watkins, 2019)
Apr 14, 2021
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)
Mar 18, 2021
Hans Martin Krämer, "Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan" (U of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Mar 17, 2021
Steven Collins, "Wisdom as a Way of Life: Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Mar 16, 2021
Fabio Rambelli, "The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Feb 26, 2021
A Thai Contemporary Artist on Identity, Power, and the Space In-Between: A Discussion with Phaptawan Suwannakudt
Feb 25, 2021
Ji Zhe et al., "Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Feb 24, 2021
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jan 29, 2021
Courtney Bruntz and Brooke Schedneck, "Buddhist Tourism in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Dec 22, 2020
Geoffrey C. Goble, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra, the Ruling Elite, and the Emergence of a Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Dec 15, 2020
Michal Pagis, "Inward: Vipassana Meditation and the Embodiment of the Self" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Dec 14, 2020
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 09, 2020
Pilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action" (Shambala, 2017)
Nov 10, 2020
Caroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: Commitment, Connection, Community" (Routledge, 2019)
Nov 06, 2020
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Networks of the East Asian 'Mediterranean'" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
Nov 03, 2020
Lost Temples of the Jungle: A History of Mrauk-U with Dr. Bob Hudson
Oct 22, 2020
Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, Healing, and Enchantment through the Ages" (Shambala Publications, 2020)
Sep 30, 2020
Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Sep 30, 2020
Joshua Esler, "Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chinese: Mediation and Superscription of the Tibetan Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Society" (Lexington Books, 2020)
Sep 24, 2020
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism" (Rowman, 2015)
Sep 22, 2020
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns" (Shambhala, 2020)
Sep 14, 2020
Steven Heine, "Readings of Dōgen's 'Treasury of the True Dharma Eye'"(Columbia UP, 2020)
Sep 09, 2020
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 31, 2020
Mark A. Nathan, "From the Mountains to the Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Korea" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Jul 28, 2020
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Living Landscapes
Jul 24, 2020
Mayfair Yang, "Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy and Society in Wenzhou, China" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jul 23, 2020
Angela S. Chiu, "The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Lineage, Power, and Place in Northern Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Jul 20, 2020
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jul 17, 2020
Sara Smith, "Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2020
Yuhang Li, "Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2020)
Jul 14, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
Johan Elverskog, "The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia" (U Penn Press, 2020)
May 21, 2020
Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in Medieval Korean Buddhism: The Collected Works of Ŭich’ŏn" (U Hawaii Press, 2016)
May 12, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Gregory Scott, "Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Apr 16, 2020
C. Baker and P. Phongpaichit, "From the Fifty Jātaka: Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka" (Silkworm Books, 2019)
Apr 02, 2020
Jin Y. Park, "Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp" (U of Hawaii Press, 2017)
Mar 31, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Stephanie Kaza, "Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times" (Shambhala, 2019)
Feb 20, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Karine Gagné, "Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas" (U Washington Press, 2019)
Nov 12, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Jolyon Baraka Thomas, "Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Oct 17, 2019
Geoffrey Barstow, "Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Oct 01, 2019
Levi McLaughlin, "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of A Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Aug 26, 2019
William M. Gorvine, "Envisioning A Tibetan Luminary: The Life of a Modern Bonpo Saint" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Aug 26, 2019
Berthe Jansen, "The Monastery Rules: Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet" (U California Press, 2018)
Aug 21, 2019
Max Oidtmann, "Forging the Golden Urn: The Qing Empire and the Politics of Reincarnation in Tibet" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Aug 19, 2019
Daniel Veidlinger, "From Indra’s Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas" (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
Aug 15, 2019
Julia Cassaniti, "Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Aug 12, 2019
Jessica Starling, "Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Aug 05, 2019
Ashley Thompson, "Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor" (Routledge, 2016)
Jul 04, 2019
Megan Bryson, “Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China” (Stanford UP, 2016)
Jun 05, 2019
Eric Huntington, "Creating the Universe: Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism" (U Washington Press, 2018)
Jun 03, 2019
Matthew W. King, "Ocean of Milk, Ocean of Blood: A Mongolian Monk in the Ruins of the Qing Empire" (Columbia UP, 2019)
May 16, 2019
Jane Caple, "Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
May 09, 2019
Bhikkhu Anālayo, "Rebirth in Early Buddhism and Current Research" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
Apr 01, 2019
Ward Keeler, "The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma" (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Apr 01, 2019
Ira Helderman, "Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion" (UNC Press, 2019)
Mar 26, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Nathan McGovern, "The Snake and The Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Mar 19, 2019
Ian Johnson, "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao" (Pantheon, 2017)
Mar 13, 2019
Meido Moore, "The Rinzai Zen Way: A Guide to Practice" (Shambhala, 2018)
Mar 06, 2019
Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
Mar 01, 2019
Duncan Williams, “American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War” (Harvard UP, 2019
Feb 18, 2019
Thomas Patton, "The Buddha’s Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism" (Columbia UP, 2018)
Feb 11, 2019
Richard Gombrich, "Buddhism and Pali" (Mud Pie Slices, 2018)
Feb 06, 2019
Arnika Fuhrmann, "Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema" (Duke UP, 2016)
Jan 22, 2019
Thomas Borchert, “Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border” (U Hawaii Press, 2017)
Dec 07, 2018
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Jessica Marie Falcone, "Battling the Buddha of Love: A Cultural Biography of the Greatest Statue Never Built" (Cornell UP, 2018)
Dec 04, 2018
Stephen Batchelor, “Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World” (Yale UP, 2017)
Oct 22, 2018
Ruth Gamble, “Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism: The Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition” (Oxford UP, 2018)
Sep 21, 2018
Katherine A. Bowie, “Of Beggars and Buddhas: The Politics of Humor in the Vessantara Jataka in Thailand” (U Wisconsin Press, 2017)
Jul 27, 2018
Michelle C. Wang, “Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang” (Brill, 2018)
Jul 05, 2018
Holly Gayley, “Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2016)
May 10, 2018
Guillaume Rozenberg, “The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2015)
Apr 30, 2018
Reiko Ohnuma, “Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Mar 20, 2018
Radhule Weininger, “Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion” (Shambhala, 2017)
Mar 11, 2018
Amy Langenberg, “Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom” (Routledge, 2017)
Feb 27, 2018
Shinshu Roberts, “Being-Time: A Practitioner’s Guide to Dogen’s Shobogenzo Uji” (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
Feb 22, 2018
Yael Shy, “What Now? Meditation For Your Twenties and Beyond” (Parallax Press, 2017)
Feb 16, 2018
Anna Andreeva, “Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan” (Harvard Asia Center, 2017)
Feb 07, 2018
Wendy Hasenkamp and Janna R. White, eds. “The Monastery and the Microscope” (Yale UP, 2017)
Dec 19, 2017
Megan Adamson Sijapati and Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, “Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya” (Routledge, 2016)
Dec 18, 2017
Bryan D. Lowe, “Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2017)
Dec 04, 2017
John Powers, “The Buddha Party: How the People’s Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Nov 07, 2017
Justin R. Ritzinger, “Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Oct 09, 2017
Hugh Urban, “Zorba the Buddha: Sex, Spirituality, and Capitalism in the Global Osho Movement” (U. Cal Press, 2016)
Oct 09, 2017
Robert Wright, “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment” (Simon and Schuster, 2017)
Aug 25, 2017
Matthew J. Walton, “Buddhism, Politics and Political Thought in Myanmar” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Apr 27, 2017
Scott A. Mitchell, “Buddhism in America: Global Religion, Local Contexts” (Bloomsbury, 2016)
Apr 02, 2017
Melissa Chakars, “The Socialist Way of Life in Siberia: Transformation in Buryatia” (Central European UP, 2014)
Mar 25, 2017
Benjamin Schonthal, “Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of the Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Mar 03, 2017
Erik W. Davis, “Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Jan 20, 2017
Jan Kiely and J. Brooks Jessup, eds., “Recovering Buddhism in Modern China” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Dec 23, 2016
Patrick Jory, “Thailand’s Theory of Monarchy: The Vessantara Jataka and the Idea of the Perfect Man” (SUNY Press, 2016)
Nov 20, 2016
Dale S. Wright, “What is Buddhist Enlightenment?” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Oct 04, 2016
Brooke Schedneck, “Thailand’s International Meditation Centers” (Routledge, 2015)
May 16, 2016
Erik Hammerstrom, “The Science of Chinese Buddhism: Early Twentieth-Century Engagements” (Columbia UP, 2015)
Mar 30, 2016
Pamela D. Winfield, “Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Mar 29, 2016
Paul Rouzer, “On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems” (U. of Washington Press, 2015)
Mar 14, 2016
Heather Blair, “Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan” (Harvard U Asia Center, 2015)
Jan 20, 2016
James A. Benn, “Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History” (U of Hawaii Press, 2015)
Jan 04, 2016
Janet Gyatso, Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (Columbia University Press, 2015)
Dec 18, 2015
Maria Heim, “The Forerunner of All Things: Buddhaghosa on Mind, Intention and Agency” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Nov 08, 2015
Sarah H. Jacoby, “Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Sep 26, 2015
Steven E. Kemper, “Rescued from the Nation: Anagarika Dharmapala and the Buddhist World” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
Jun 27, 2015
Tenzin Chogyel (trans. Kurtis R. Schaeffer), “The Life of the Buddha” (Penguin Books, 2015)
Jun 08, 2015
Andrea Jain, “Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture” (Oxford UP, 2014)
May 13, 2015
John K. Nelson, “Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and Activism in Contemporary Japan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2013)
May 07, 2015
Stuart Young, “Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China” (U of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Apr 25, 2015
Kurtis R. Schaeffer, et al. “The Tibetan History Reader/Sources of Tibetan Tradition” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Apr 11, 2015
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, “The Archaeology of Tibetan Books” (Brill, 2014)
Mar 21, 2015
Tanya Storch, “The History of Chinese Buddhist Bibliography: Censorship and Transformation of the Tripitaka (Cambria, 2014),
Mar 18, 2015
Alicia Turner, “Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma” (U Hawaii Press, 2014)
Mar 13, 2015
Meir Shahar and John Kieschnick, “India in the Chinese Imagination” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Feb 11, 2015
Charlotte Eubanks, “Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (U of California Press, 2011)
Feb 06, 2015
R. Keller Kimbrough, “Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater” (Columbia UP, 2013)
Jan 23, 2015
Erik Braun, “The Birth of Insight: Meditation, Modern Buddhism, and the Burmese Monk Ledi Sayadaw” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Jan 08, 2015
Jacob Dalton, “The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism” (Yale University Press, 2011)
Dec 25, 2014
Clark Chilson, “Secrecy’s Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment” (University of Hawaii Press, 2014)
Nov 11, 2014
Paul Copp, “The Body Incantatory: Spells and the Ritual Imagination in Medieval Chinese Buddhism” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Oct 27, 2014
Chun-fang Yu, “Passing the Light: The Incense Light Community and Buddhist Nuns in Contemporary Taiwan” (U of Hawaii Press, 2013)
Oct 14, 2014
Mark Epstein, “The Trauma of Everyday Life” (Penguin Press, 2013)
Oct 13, 2014
James Carter, “Heart of Buddha, Heart of China: The Life of Tanxu, a Twentieth-Century Monk” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Jun 11, 2014
Kathleen D. Singh, “The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation” (HarperOne, 2013)
Apr 03, 2014
Robert K. C. Forman, “Enlightenment Ain’t What It’s Cracked Up To Be” (Changemakers Books, 2011)
Dec 10, 2013
Jane Iwamura, “Virtual Orientalism: Religion and Popular Culture in the U.S.” Oxford University Press, 2011
Aug 22, 2013
Stephen T. Asma, “Against Fairness” (University of Chicago, 2013)
Apr 05, 2013
Kevin Gray Carr, “Plotting the Prince: Shotoku Cults and the Mapping of Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
Feb 06, 2013
Carl S. Yamamoto, “Vision and Violence: Lama Zhang and the Politics of Charisma in Twelfth-Century Tibet” (Brill, 2012)
Oct 24, 2012
Anne M. Blackburn, “Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka,” (The University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Aug 23, 2012
Jeff Wilson, “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” (UNC Press, 2012)
Jul 20, 2012
Hank Glassman, “The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism” (University of Hawai’i Press, 2012)
May 10, 2012
Justin Thomas McDaniel, “The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand” (Columbia University Press, 2011)
Dec 07, 2011
Patricia Campbell, “Knowing Body, Moving Mind: Ritualizing and Learning at Two Buddhist Centers” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Nov 03, 2011
Charles Prebish, “An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer” (Sumeru Press, 2011)
Oct 05, 2011
Bryan J. Cuevas, “Travels in the Netherworld: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet” (Oxford UP, 2008)
Sep 23, 2011
David McMahan, “The Making of Buddhist Modernism” (Oxford UP, 2008)
Sep 02, 2011
Lori Meeks, “Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan” (University of Hawaii Press, 2010)
Jun 20, 2011
Jason Clower, “The Unlikely Buddhologist: Tiantai Buddhism in Mou Zongsan’s New Confucianism” (Brill, 2010)
Jun 10, 2011
Daniel Veidlinger, “Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand” (University of Hawaii Press, 2006)
Jun 03, 2011