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Buddhist Studies
Interviews with scholars of Buddhism about their new books.
October 15, 2025
Queens Without a Kingdom Worth Ruling
Queens without a Kingdom worth Ruling: Buddhist Nuns and the Process of Change in Tibetan Monastic Communities is a fascinating study of nuns in the T…
October 14, 2025
Holy Places
This year, as they have for millennia, many people around the world will set out on pilgrimages. But these are not only journeys of personal and spiri…
October 6, 2025
The Perils of Tantra
Today, host Prof. Pierce Salguero sits down with Susannah Deane, a scholar of Tibetan medicine, Buddhism, and psychiatry. Together, we delve into her …
September 19, 2025
Paying Attention with Anya Daly
In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Anya Daly. Dr Anya Daly investigates the intersections of phenomenology with philosophy of mind, the philosophy of…
September 7, 2025
Necropolitics of the Ordinary
Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted w…
August 22, 2025
Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition
Finalist, Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Constructive-Reflective Studies, given by the American Academy of ReligionExplores how Black …
August 11, 2025
Cave of My Ancestors
On the podcast today I am joined by Kirin Narayan, emerita professor at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Kir…
August 4, 2025
When Meditation Causes Harm
Today I sit down with Willoughby Britton and Jared Lindahl, the interdisciplinary team from Brown University that is responsible for the “Varieties of…
August 1, 2025
Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties Across the Indian Ocean
From the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries new kingdoms emerged in Sri Lanka and mainland Southeast Asia. Sovereignty in these new kingdoms was ex…
July 25, 2025
Buddhist Hermits in Eastern Tibet
Magdalena Maria Turek is an independent research scholar. She received her PhD from Humboldt University, Germany, and was a Research Fellow with the R…
July 13, 2025
Emergent Phenomena
Today, host Prof. Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr. Daniel M. Ingram, a retired ER physician, co-founder of the Emergent Phenomena Research Consortiu…
July 9, 2025
Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts
Myth and Identity in the Martial Arts: Creating the Dragon (Lexington Books, 2025) is a study of the role of myth and ideology in the formation of soc…
June 17, 2025
Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910)
Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) (Cambria Press, 2023) is a fascinating book that sits at the intersection of Buddh…
June 16, 2025
Experiments in Mystical Atheism
A new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism.Western philosophy is stuck in an irresolvable conflict between two a…
June 1, 2025
Confronting Christianity
Siam had been dealing with Christian missionaries for centuries, but from the 1830s a new wave of Protestant missionaries began to work in Siam, just …
May 28, 2025
Just Awakening
Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China (Columbia University Press, 2025) uncovers a forgotten philosophy of social democracy inspi…
May 21, 2025
Becoming a Buddha & Being Human too
You’re human, but are you also a Buddha? If so, which one comes first? What does it mean to be human? What is a Buddha exactly? Is our humanity lost o…
May 19, 2025
Multiple Liminalities of Lay Buddhism in Contemporary China
In the past decades, various forms of Buddhism have emerged in-between, above, and beyond conventional conceptions of religious and spiritual life in …
May 13, 2025
Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism
An open access Asia Shorts edited volume from AAS. The spring of 2020 will remain etched in collective memory as a moment of profound upheaval. The C…
May 9, 2025
Making the Invisible Real
Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She r…