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Dr. Alice Collett, “Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Dr. Alice Collett
Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns
Biographies as History
Oxford University Press, 2016

New Books in BiographyNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in South Asian Studies January 16, 2020 Alex Carroll

Dr. Alice Collett’s monograph Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History (Oxford University Press, 2016) delves into the lives of six of the best-known nuns from the period of early Buddhism: Dhammadinnā, Khemā, Kisāgotamī, Paṭācārā, Bhaddā Kuṇḍalakesā, and Uppalavaṇṇā, all of whom are said to have been direct disciples... Read More
M. Sheehy and K-D Mathes, “The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet” (SUNY Press, 2019)
Michael R. Sheehy  and Klaus-Dieter Mathes
The Other Emptiness
Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet
SUNY Press, 2019

New Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Central Asian StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network December 23, 2019 Sangseraima Ujeed

Michael R. Sheehy  and Klaus-Dieter Mathes‘s edited collection The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet (SUNY Press, 2019) brings together perspectives of leading international Tibetan studies scholars on the subject of zhentong or “other-emptiness.” Defined as the emptiness of everything other than the continuous luminous awareness that... Read More
Charles B. Jones, “Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice” (U Hawaii Press, 2019)
Charles B. Jones
Chinese Pure Land Buddhism
Understanding a Tradition of Practice
University of Hawai’i Press, 2019

New Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network November 14, 2019 Lina Verchery

Today’s guest is Charles B. Jones, Associate Professor and Director of the Religion and Culture graduate program in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He will be speaking with us about his new book Chinese Pure Land Buddhism: Understanding a Tradition of Practice,... Read More
Karine Gagné, “Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas” (U Washington Press, 2019)
Karine Gagné
Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
University of Washington Press, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in South Asian StudiesNew Books Network November 12, 2019 Kate Hartmann

In her new book, Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas (University of Washington Press, 2019), Karine Gagné explores how relations of reciprocity between land, humans, animals, and glaciers foster an ethics of care in the Himalayan communities of Ladakh. She explores the way these relations are changing... Read More
Jolyon Baraka Thomas, “Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan” (U Chicago Press, 2019)
Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Faking Liberties
Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan
University of Chicago Press, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 17, 2019 Nathan Hopson

Jolyon Baraka Thomas’s Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2019) challenges the commonsensical notion that the Japanese empire granted its subjects no religious freedom—that, despite the legal provision in the Meiji Constitution of 1890 affirming freedom of worship, “State Shinto” was the law of the... Read More
Geoffrey Barstow, “Food of Sinful Demons: Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet” (Columbia UP, 2018)
Geoffrey Barstow
Food of Sinful Demons
Meat, Vegetarianism, and the Limits of Buddhism in Tibet
Columbia University Press, 2018

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in East Asian StudiesNew Books in FoodNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books Network October 1, 2019 Sangseraima Ujeed

Tibetan Buddhism teaches compassion toward all beings, a category that explicitly includes animals. Slaughtering animals is morally problematic at best and, at worst, completely incompatible with a religious lifestyle. Yet historically most Tibetans—both monastic and lay—have made meat a regular part of their diet. In Food of Sinful Demons: Meat,... Read More
Ronald E. Purser, “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality” (Repeater Books, 2019)
Ronald E. Purser
McMindfulness
How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Repeater Books, 2019

New Books in Buddhist StudiesNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in ReligionNew Books in Religion & FaithNew Books in SecularismNew Books in Spiritual Practice and Mindfulness September 18, 2019 Alex Carroll

In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard look at the mindfulness movement that has taken society by storm. Purser opens the book by questioning elements of the movement that have lead to its success: its scientific... Read More
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