Geoffrey C. Goble, "Chinese Esoteric Buddhism: ...
Goble examines the emergence and early history of esoteric Buddhism in China.,,
68 min
252
Michal Pagis, "Inward: Vipassana Meditation and...
Pagis explores in depth one school of mindfulness, or vipassana, founded by the Indian teacher S.N. Goenka and now established in countries around the world...
61 min
253
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, "Monks in Motion: Buddhism ...
Chia explores the transnationally connected history of modern Buddhist communities in China and Southeast Asia...
66 min
254
Pilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The T...
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking...
53 min
255
Caroline Starkey, "Women in British Buddhism: C...
Based on detailed ethnographic research, this book explores the varied experiences of women who have converted to Buddhism in contemporary Britain....
66 min
256
Sujung Kim, "Shinra Myojin and Buddhist Network...
Kim offers a fascinating study of the transcultural underpinnings of Medieval East Asian Buddhist traditions with an emphasis on Shinra Myōjin, a deity integral to the institutional development of the Medieval Japanese Tendai faction, the Jimon...
81 min
257
Lost Temples of the Jungle: A History of Mrauk-...
Deep in the jungles of Myanmar lie the remains of an ancient kingdom, the 15th-century royal city of Mrauk-U...
17 min
258
Takeshi Morisato, "Faith and Reason in Continen...
Considering the examples of Christianity and Buddhism, Morisato focuses on finding the solution to the problem of philosophy of religion through comparative examinations of Tanabe’s metanoetics and Desmond’s metaxology...
50 min
259
Sam van Schaik, "Buddhist Magic: Divination, He...
As far back as we can see in the historical record, Buddhist monks and nuns have offered services including healing, divination, rain making, aggressive magic, and love magic to local clients..,,
45 min
260
Joshua Esler, "Tibetan Buddhism among Han Chine...
Esler sheds light on this recent development in Sino-Tibetan Buddhism that is gaining increasing momentum in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...
59 min
261
Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, "Absent Mother God o...
Saxena draws on her personal religious experiences and devotion to the Goddess Kali as a starting point to reflect on the absence of a Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism...
57 min
262
Matty Weingast, "The First Free Women: Poems of...
A radical and vivid rendering of poetry from the first Buddhist nuns that brings a new immediacy to their voices...
49 min
263
Steven Heine, "Readings of Dōgen's 'Treasury of...
Heine gives us a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise...
53 min
264
Alicia Turner, "The Irish Buddhist: The Forgott...
This is the story of U Dhammaloka, an Irishman who “went native” and became a Buddhist monk in British Burma at the turn of the twentieth century...
48 min
265
Mark A. Nathan, "From the Mountains to the Citi...
Nathan offers a history of P’ogyo (Buddhist Propagation) on the Korean peninsula from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 21st that switches its focus to South Korea beginning with the Post-Korean War period...
90 min
266
A Conversation with Chris Chapple, Part II: Liv...
The ancient Indian philosophers conceptualized the universe as comprising 5 elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space), corresponding to the five human senses...
Yang examines the resurgence of religious and ritual life after decades of enforced secularization in the coastal area of Wenzhou,..
60 min
268
Angela S. Chiu, "The Buddha in Lanna: Art, Line...
Chiu offers the first in-depth historical study of the Thai tradition of donation of Buddha statues...
53 min
269
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language ...
Bronkhorst makes the case through an extensive introduction and select translations of important Indian texts that language has a crucial role in Indian thought...
62 min
270
Sara Smith, "Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territ...
Smith’s book centers intimacy in the consideration of geopolitics which is otherwise only seen as a game between nation states...
How did Buddhist women access religious experience and transcendence in a Confucian patriarchal system in imperial China?
56 min
272
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
273
Johan Elverskog, "The Buddha’s Footprint: An En...
Elverskog challenges the popular image of Buddhism as a religion intrinsically concerned with the environment...
86 min
274
Richard McBride II, "Doctrine and Practice in M...
McBride offers a comprehensive study of the Koryŏ (918-1392) Buddhist exegete, Ŭichŏn, that convey’s his life and work through letters, speeches, memorials, addresses, and poetry, from three epigraphical accounts...
69 min
275
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?