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| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 419 | Founded | 15 years ago |
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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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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.
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
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.
I just stumbled on this podcast. The interviews with authors are very illuminating.
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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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