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Buddhist Studies
Interviews with scholars of Buddhism about their new books.
April 7, 2026
Just Stare At the Wall
Welcome to the Imperfect Buddha Podcast on the New Books Network. Today, we’re stripping away the incense and serenity to look at the cold, hard wall…
April 1, 2026
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar
Between the Buddha and the New Tsar: Urban Religion and Minority Politics at the Asian Borderlands of Russia (Cornell UP, 2026) by Dr. Kristina Jonuty…
March 8, 2026
Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell
Today I sit down with Dr. Tawni Tidwell, a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medicine doctor at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of…
February 15, 2026
Recentering Southeast Asia
Recentering Southeast Asia: Politics, Religion and Maritime Connections (Routledge, 2026) assesses the impact of European colonization in the late 19t…
February 1, 2026
The Gathering
Vanessa R. Sasson's book The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women (Equinox, 2023) is a retelling of the story of the first Buddhist women's …
January 26, 2026
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan (U Hawai'i Press, 2025), Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: …
January 15, 2026
Near Light We Shine
Sara Swenson is Assistant Professor of Religion and Affiliated Faculty in Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages at Dartmouth College. Her areas of …
January 13, 2026
All Things Act
All Things Act explores the collective character of action to expand the ways we think about agency. First, it resists viewing agency as a capacity, m…
January 7, 2026
Serendipitous Translations
Sri Lanka has long sat astride the monsoon winds between the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea – a small island at the centre of a very big story. For…
January 5, 2026
Poet-Monks
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of me…
January 4, 2026
Chinese Cosmopolitanism
A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and difference. Historically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastr…
January 2, 2026
Buddhist Masculinities
While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. Accord…
December 30, 2025
The Making of American Buddhism
Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in…
December 20, 2025
Integral Perspectives
In this episode, Sean MacCracken reflects on his experience at the American Academy of Religion, noticing a shift toward more participatory, contempla…
December 15, 2025
Politics of Tranquility
Politics of Tranquility: The Material and Mundane Lives of Buddhist Nuns in Post-Mao Tibet (Cornell University Press, 2025) concerns the Tibetan Buddh…
December 13, 2025
Dr. Michael Uebel on Reimaging Equanimity
Michael Uebel is a psychotherapist and researcher currently based in Austin, Texas. He is recognized as a pioneer in applying psychological insights t…
December 12, 2025
Black Beryl: Self and Nonself, with Nick Canby
Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Nick Canby, visiting assistant professor at Brown University and a clinical psychologist specializing in meditation …
December 1, 2025
Buddhist Historiography in China
Since the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous historical works, …
December 1, 2025
Buddhist Landscapes of the Khorat Plateau
This important new work, Buddhist Landscapes: Art and Archaeology of the Khorat Plateau, 7th to 11th Centuries (NUS Press, 2023) by Stephen Murphy, bu…
November 29, 2025
Searching for Ashoka
Blending travelogue, history, and archaeology, Searching for Ashoka: Questing for a Buddhist King from India to Thailand (SUNY Press, 2023) unravels t…