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New Books in Buddhist Studies

Marshall Poe
Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism
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Tina Turner
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Beacons Of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars For the Modern Age
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Tibetan Medicine
Dharma
Consciousness

This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to ... more

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Amy Chavez talks to Don Weiss, currently mid-way through the Shikoku Pilgrimage — Japan's 1,300 km Buddhist route that has been walked for almost as many years. Pilgrims share their journey with Kobo Daishi, patron saint of the 88-temple circuit and... more

Today we're looking at a book that fills a gap that has existed for a long time. Korean Buddhism: Selected Readings from Primary Texts (U Hawaii Press, 2026), edited by Jin Park and Sumi Lee and published this year by the University of Hawai'i Press... more

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary

Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer

these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhism

institutions, in particular Temple Buddhi... more

Pierce Salguero joins us to discuss his new co-edited volume, Meditation Sickness: A Sourcebook on the Dangers of Buddhist Practice. While modern mindfulness frames meditation purely as a wellness tool, the Buddhist tradition has long recognized its ... more

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Recent Guests

Don Weiss
Author, photographer, pilgrim on the Shikoku Pilgrimage
Author of Echoes of Incense, A Pilgrimage in Japan
Episode: Echoes of Incense on the Shikoku Pilgrimage with Don Weiss
William Fraser MacDowell
Chair Professor of Philosophy and Religion
American University, Washington, DC
Episode: Jin Y. Park and Sumi Lee eds., "Korean Buddhism: Selected Readings from Primary Texts" (U Hawaii Press, 2026)
Stephen Covell
Mary Meader Professor of Comparative Religion and Professor of World Religions and Cultures at Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University
Episode: Stephen G. Covell, "The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)
Ronald E. Purser
Author of Mind Space, interviewed on the show
Dharma Publishing / Mind Space author
Episode: Cultivating Consciousness: A Conversation with Ronald E. Purser on Mind Space (2026)
Ben Nourse
Author of The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism
Lexington Books
Episode: Benjamin J. Nourse, "The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism"(Lexington Books, 2025)
Bruno M. Shirley
Historian of religion, gender, and politics in early 2nd millennium Sri Lanka
Heidelberg University
Episode: Bruno Shirley, "Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka: The Reconstruction of Buddhist Kingship, ca. 1070-1215" (ARC Humanities Press, 2026)
Jeffrey J. Kripal
Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Rice University
Rice University
Episode: Extraordinary, Mysterious, and Impossible Experiences, with Jeffrey Kriple
Sirus Libeiro
Translator of The Seekers, Parivrajak (Marathi original: Gautamiputra Kamble)
Translator, Blaft Publications / collaborator with Gautamiputra Kamble
Episode: Gautamiputra Kamble, "The Seekers" (Blaft Publication, 2025)
Mark Shinji Blacknell
Author of Just Stare at the Dam Wall!
Author, Zen practitioner
Episode: Just Stare at the Damn Wall!

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4.4 out of 5 stars from 65 ratings
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    I like the podcast! Thank you.

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    EnthusiasticWill
    Canada3 years ago
  • Black students can’t handle no-self? Seriously?

    What a infantilising take that is. Was Thích Quàng Dúc too oppressed to handle that insight? Being an oppressed person and a Buddhist is not at all uncommon.

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    Jdjej sje
    Canada4 years ago
  • Glaring mistake in otherwise excellent show

    This podcast is great. An enjoyable way to keep abreast of new scholarly books on the subject.

    Adding the ‘Imperfect Buddha’ podcast to the network is clearly a major misstep. I hope that, in the future, nBn continues its excellent programming of interviews with scholars, and does not continue in this new direction of featuring editorialized rantings and over-blown musings. This new addition fits so poorly with the original scope, that it is hard to understand what nBn was thinking by adding i... more

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    Lizzzzzzxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    United States5 years ago
  • Audio Quality

    This is a great podcast, but the quality of the audio is horrible. I think most of their interviews are done over Skype, leaving the audio quality uneven and tinny. During the last episode it sounded like the author was rubbing fabric on the microphone. These kinds of sounds are painful when heard through earbuds. I want to listen to this very interesting podcast, but almost every time I can’t get through it because of the audio quality.

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    Mr. Buzz Buzz
    United States8 years ago
  • Great Resource

    I just stumbled on this podcast. The interviews with authors are very illuminating.

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    Wangdu from California
    United States14 years ago

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Jue Liang, "Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: How is Yeshe Tsogyel depicted as a consort, and why bracket contemporary concerns about abuse?
The guest discusses the literary portrayal of consort relationships in treasure texts, noting the historical defense of consorts as legitimate practice while also acknowledging modern concerns about abuse, and arguing that the pre-modern texts should be read with nuanced attention to their historical context.
Jue Liang, "Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: What is liberation philology and why is it important for reading Yeshe Tsogyel?
Liberation philology is described as a threefold framework—textual meaning, contextual meaning, and philologist meaning—that allows reading texts with awareness of one's own presuppositions and an ethical relationship to the material, avoiding simplistic judgments about gender in ancient narratives.
Jue Liang, "Conceiving the Mother of Tibet: The Early Literary Lives of the Buddhist Saint Yeshe Tsogyel" (Oxford UP, 2026)
Q: How did you get interested in Yeshe Tsogyel?
The guest explains that early scholarly exposure, interactions with advisors, and a rise in available Tibetan female-life-literature guided her focus, culminating in the discovery of new life stories from the 14th–15th centuries that prompted a literary rather than historic approach to Yeshe Tsogyel.
Benjamin J. Nourse, "The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism"(Lexington Books, 2025)
Q: What role did Labrang play in Tibetan publishing, and how did it differ from Derge and Chone?
Labrang became an educational and scholarly center by founding a library and publishing in a monastic setting, emphasizing scholastic materials and curriculum; this contrasted with Derge's mass canon publishing and Chone's borderland dynamics and multilingual publishing during the Qing era.
Benjamin J. Nourse, "The Power of Publishing in Early Modern Tibetan Buddhism"(Lexington Books, 2025)
Q: How did Beijing under Qing rule influence Tibetan Buddhist publishing, and who were the key figures driving that activity?
Beijing served as a hub where Tibetan monasteries, Mongolian and Manchu elites, and Han Chinese scholars collaborated; notable figures included the Zhangjia Lama and Prince Xian who contributed to translations, new editions, and even multi-language publishing, reflecting an increasingly interconnected and multilingual publishing ecosystem.

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What is New Books in Buddhist Studies about and what kind of topics does it cover?

A scholarly interview program that centers on recently published Buddhist studies books and related scholarship. Episodes cover topics from temple education in Japan, meditation ethics and risk, mindfulness culture, Tibetan book history, Zen practice, urban Buddhism, Buddhist education for children, and Tibetan medicine. Conversations typically feature authors or translators, with host-led discussions that situate the book within broader debates in religion, philosophy, and East Asian studies, often highlighting methodological approaches, translation, and cross-cultural context. The show is notable for its rigorous academically oriented guests, clear explanations of complex ideas, and a willingness to critique mainstream mindfulness and mod... more

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