New Books in Buddhist Studies

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Brook Ziporyn, "Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and Beyond" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Jun 16, 2025 – 02:07:54
Gregory N. Evon, "Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)" (Cambria Press, 2023)
Jun 16, 2025 – 01:10:55
Sven Trakulhun, "Confronting Christianity: The Protestant Mission and the Buddhist Reform Movement in Nineteenth-Century Thailand" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Jun 1, 2025 – 40:54
Jessica X. Zu, "Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2025)
May 28, 2025 – 01:28:02
Anne C. Klein on Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too
May 21, 2025 – 01:28:47
Kai Shmushko, "Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China: Modalities, Material Culture, and Politics" (Leiden UP, 2024)
May 19, 2025 – 01:04:04
Kin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025)
May 13, 2025 – 43:36
Catherine Hartmann, "Making the Invisible Real: Practice of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage" (Oxford UP, 2025)
May 9, 2025 – 01:07:20
Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias
Apr 9, 2025 – 01:15:52
Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Mar 23, 2025 – 01:57:53
Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 18, 2025 – 01:43:10
Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Feb 21, 2025 – 01:12:16
Magic, Death, and Necromancy with Justin McDaniel
Feb 5, 2025 – 58:39
Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024)
Jan 16, 2025 – 44:29
Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
Jan 6, 2025 – 56:07
Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Dec 19, 2024 – 01:07:20
Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence
Dec 11, 2024 – 01:54:54
Adeana McNicholl, "Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Oct 9, 2024 – 01:00:06
Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Sep 24, 2024 – 01:20:20
The Body in Classical Hathayoga, with Ruth Westoby
Sep 8, 2024 – 57:21
Christopher P. Miller et al., "Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age" (Lexington, 2019)
Sep 5, 2024 – 45:40
Alone in a World of Wounds with Zen Abbot Shodhin Geiman
Aug 29, 2024 – 01:29:16
Justine Chambers, "Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar" (NUS Press, 2024)
Aug 15, 2024 – 49:52
Yoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo Wildcroft
Aug 11, 2024 – 01:04:35
D. E. Osto, "Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Aug 1, 2024 – 54:56
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jul 20, 2024 – 01:18:20
Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024)
Jul 20, 2024 – 01:06:54
Rory Lindsay, "Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvardurgatipariśodhana Tantra" (WSTB, 2024)
Jul 11, 2024 – 43:04
Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Jul 6, 2024 – 01:24:28
Cameron Bailey and Aleksandra Wenta, "Tibetan Magic: Past and Present" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Jun 21, 2024 – 46:06
The Religious Landscape of Taiwan: A Discussion with Yushuang Yao
Jun 21, 2024 – 55:40
The Enlightenment of the Body, with Naomi Worth
Jun 9, 2024 – 54:12
Benjamin Brose, "Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
May 23, 2024 – 01:05:06
Wei Wu, "Esoteric Buddhism in China: Engaging Japanese and Tibetan Traditions, 1912–1949" (Columbia UP, 2023)
May 17, 2024 – 01:08:02
Richard M. Jaffe, "Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
May 5, 2024 – 01:06:50
Reiki and the Subtle Body, with Justin B. Stein
May 4, 2024 – 01:02:18
Matthew Robertson, "Puruṣa: Personhood in Ancient India" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Apr 9, 2024 – 01:08:54
William S. Waldron, "Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogacara Buddhism Matters" (Wisdom Publications, 2023)
Apr 4, 2024 – 02:14:11
Building the Future Buddha: A Discussion with Jundho Cohen
Mar 31, 2024 – 59:00
Making Sense of Yogacara with William Waldron
Mar 23, 2024 – 01:27:29
Pankaj Jain and Jeffery D. Long, "Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023)
Mar 14, 2024 – 40:54
Charles B. Jones, "Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice" (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Feb 26, 2024 – 01:15:34
Buddhist Medicine in Contemporary Times (with Pierce Salguero)
Feb 9, 2024 – 01:20:41
Jeffery D. Long, "Discovering Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Hindu, Jain and Buddhist Thought" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Feb 8, 2024 – 52:45
Daniel Capper, "Roaming Free Like a Deer: Buddhism and the Natural World" (Cornell UP, 2022)
Feb 5, 2024 – 51:18
Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Jan 26, 2024 – 51:36
Jan Westerhoff, "Candrakirti's Introduction to the Middle Way: A Guide" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024 – 54:42
Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" (Random House, 2004)
Jan 17, 2024 – 01:03:01
Douglas S. Duckworth, "Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy of Mind and Nature" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jan 15, 2024 – 52:19
Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality
Jan 8, 2024 – 01:18:27

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