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The Imperfect Buddha Podcast July 10, 2015

Imperfect Buddha Podcast: Introducing the Why, the How, the Intent of it All

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What is the Imperfect Buddha Podcast? Where does it come from? Why listen to it? All of these questions and more are presented in this introduction designed at clarifying for …

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Interviews with scholars of Buddhism about their new books.

On Religion June 27, 2022

On the Four Foundations of Mindfulness

A Discussion with Ben Connelly

Ben Connelly

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Ben Connelly is a Minneapolis-based Soto Zen teacher in the Katagiri-lineage. He offers a wide variety of secular mindfulness trainings, including for police departments, corporate settings, correctional facilities, and addiction …
On Religion June 21, 2022

The Other Side of Nothing

The Zen Ethics of Time, Space, and Being

Brad Warner

Hosted by Gregory Soden
In the West, Zen Buddhism has a reputation for paradoxes that defy logic. In particular, the Buddhist concept of nonduality -- the realization that everything in the universe forms a …
Nordic Asia Podcast June 20, 2022

Spirit Possession in Buddhist Southeast Asia

Worlds Ever More Enchanted

Bénédicte Brac de la Perrière and Peter A Jackson

Hosted by Terese Gagnon
What is the relationship between Spirit Possession Rituals and Buddhism in mainland Southeast Asia? How has modernity transformed Spirit Possession cults in the 21st century and what has led to …
Philosophy June 20, 2022

How Things Are

An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics

Mark Siderits

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Mark Siderits’ How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 2022) is a wide-ranging survey of how Buddhist philosophers think about the nature of the world. The …
Indian Religions June 16, 2022

Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism

Meditation, Metaphors and Materiality

Karen O'Brien-Kop

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Rethinking 'Classical Yoga' and Buddhism (Bloomsbury, 2021) revisits the early systemic formation of meditation practices called 'yoga' in South Asia by employing metaphor theory. Karen O'Brien-Kop also develops an alternative …
On Religion June 16, 2022

On Buddhism, Adventures, and Cooking Ethics

A Discussion with Eric Ripert

Eric Ripert

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Eric Ripert is chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin on 7th Avenue in Manhattan’s Theater District, author of the autobiography 32 Yolks: From My Mother’s Table to Working the Line …
The Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones June 14, 2022

The Future of Religion

A Conversation with Robin Dunbar

Robin Dunbar

Hosted by Owen Bennett-Jones
Of the many differences between the West and the rest of the world the issue of religiosity is one of the most striking. In the West ever fewer people belong …
On Religion June 13, 2022

On Buddhism Beyond Modernity

A Discussion with Ann Gleig

Ann Gleig

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Dr. Ann Gleig is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida. She is co-editor of Homegrown Gurus: From Hinduism in America to American Hinduism and has …
On Religion June 10, 2022

On Koans

A Discussion with Corey Ichigen Hess

Corey Ichigen Hess

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Corey Ichigen Hess is an ordained Zen monk and body therapist. He lived a monastic life for many years at Sogenji Zen Monastery in Okayama, Japan. He teaches meditation classes …
Indian Religions June 9, 2022

Rebirth

A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World

Roger R. Jackson

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Although Buddhism is one of the religious traditions best known for asserting rebirth, the history and scope of Buddhist approaches to the idea has not received comprehensive treatment—until now. This …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast June 8, 2022

Jason M. Wirth on Zen, the Kyoto School, and Whether Nitezsche is a Buddha

Jason M. Wirth

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Welcome to this Great feast conversation. Philosophy Professor at Seattle University, Soto Zen Priest, Sangha leader, and Dharma teacher, Jason M. Wirth is the author of Nietzsche and other Buddhas …
On Religion May 31, 2022

On Nibiiro Art, the Dalai Lama, and Buddhism

A Discussion with Rima Fujita

Rima Fujita

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Rima Fujita was born in Tokyo and now resides in Southern California. She graduated from Parsons School of Design with her B.F.A. and has exhibited her work internationally to much …
On Religion May 27, 2022

The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature

Finding Nirvana in the Classics

Dean Sluyter

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Today I talked to Dean Sluyter about his book The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics (New World Library, 2022). Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku …
On Religion May 25, 2022

On the Internment of Japanese Buddhists in World War Two

A Discussion with Duncan Ryūken Williams

Duncan Ryūken Williams

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Duncan Ryuken Williams was born in Tokyo, Japan to a Japanese mother and British father. After growing up in Japan and England until age 17, he moved to the U.S …
Anthropology May 24, 2022

Chinese Environmental Ethics

Religions, Ontologies, and Practices

Mayfair Yang

Hosted by Gustavo Gutiérrez Suárez
An interdisciplinary collection in the new field of environmental humanities, Chinese Environmental Ethics: Religions, Ontologies, and Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021) brings together Chinese environmental ethics, religious ontology, and religious …
Buddhist Studies May 20, 2022

Renunciation and Longing

The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint

Annabella Pitkin

Hosted by Jue Liang
In the early twentieth century, Khunu Lama journeyed across Tibet and India, meeting Buddhist masters while sometimes living, so his students say, on cold porridge and water. Yet this elusive …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast May 20, 2022

Peter Salmon on Jacques Derrida and the Buddha

A Conversation with Peter Salmon

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Today I talk with Peter Salmon, author of An Event, Perhaps; an intellectual biography of Jacques Derrida. Our conversation was rich: We tackle Derrida and Buddhism, Derrida and the culture …
On Religion May 11, 2022

On Buddhism for Children

A Discussion with Andrea Miller

Andrea Miller

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Andrea Miller is the deputy editor of Lion's Roar magazine (formerly the Shambhala Sun), a publication force within Buddhism that so many of you will already know, and the author …
On Religion May 9, 2022

On Impermanence, Embodiment, and Conscious Intention

A Discussion with Deborah Eden Tull

Deborah Eden Tull

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Deborah Eden Tull is the founder of Mindful Living Revolution. She is a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, public speaker, author, activist, and sustainability educator. She trained for seven years …