Help Support H-Net! | Visit New Books Network en Español!

New Books Network
Buddhist Studies
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 …

Buddhist Studies

Subscribe:

Interviews with scholars of Buddhism about their new books.

Buddhist Studies February 4, 2023

Buddhist Responses to COVID

A Discussion with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Venerable Soorākkulame Pemaratana, chief abbot at the Pittsburgh Buddhist Center and a scholar of modern Buddhism in Sri Lanka. We talk about his role …
Indian Religions February 2, 2023

Laughter, Creativity, and Perseverance

Female Agency in Buddhism and Hinduism

Ute Hüsken

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
In most mainstream traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism, women have for centuries largely been excluded from positions of religious and ritual leadership. However, as this volume shows, in an increasing …
Southeast Asian Studies February 1, 2023

Religious Tourism in Northern Thailand

Encounters with Buddhist Monks

Brooke Schedneck

Hosted by Patrick Jory
The city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has become the destination for a growing segment of the international tourism market: religious tourism. International tourists visit Buddhist temples, volunteer as …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast February 1, 2023

Nietzsche, Wokeism, Non-Buddhist Mysticism

A Discussion with Glenn Wallis

Glenn Wallis

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
What does it mean to be a hundred? Perhaps Fredric Nietzsche would know. He’s in part the star of the show. Along with regular guest Glenn Wallis. We look at …
Religion February 1, 2023

A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion

Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary

Mikel Burley

Hosted by Tiatemsu Longkumer
A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a unique introduction to studying the philosophy of religion, drawing on a wide range of cultures and literary …
Ministry of Ideas January 17, 2023

Nothing Matters

About the Idea of "Nothing"

Janet Gyatso and Daniel Matt

Hosted by Zachary Davis
Between the Buddhist doctrine of ‘emptiness,’ the Jewish idea of Ayin, and the quantum mechanical zero-point energy of a vacuum, it turns out there’s quite a lot to be said …
Buddhist Studies January 9, 2023

Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship

A Discussion with Wakoh Shannon Hickey

Wakoh Shannon Hickey

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about …
Almost Good Catholics January 7, 2023

Zen Buddhism, Mardi Gras, and the Metaphysics of Eternity

Talking about Buddhist and Christian Mysticism

David Basile

Hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec
David Basile (who was our guest in Episode 01) returns to talk about his ten years in as a Zen Buddhist monk at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Retreat Center in …
Buddhist Studies December 26, 2022

Buddhist Medicine in Tibet

A Discussion with Bill McGrath

Bill McGrath

Hosted by Pierce Salguero
In this episode, I sit down with my friend Bill McGrath, a historian of Tibetan Buddhism and medicine. He's one of the most knowledgeable people in the world on this …
Buddhist Studies December 23, 2022

Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan

Wendi L. Adamek

Hosted by Jessica Zu
How should one dwell in endtime? In this SPIDER-spun web of a book, Wendi Adamek guides readers to the visual and textual traces left by Buddhist nuns, monks, and devotees …
Indian Religions December 22, 2022

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas

Holly Walters

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Today I talked to Holly Walters about her new book Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas (Amsterdam UP, 2020). For roughly two thousand years, the veneration of sacred fossil ammonites, called Shaligrams …
Religion December 20, 2022

Why Study Religion?

Richard Brian Miller

Hosted by David Gottlieb
Can the study of religion be justified? Scholarship in religion, especially work in "theory and method," is preoccupied with matters of research procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that …
Buddhist Studies December 17, 2022

Comparing Husserl's Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World

A Journey Beyond Orientalism

Jingjing Li

Hosted by Jessica Zu
Comparing Husserl’s Phenomenology and Chinese Yogacara in a Multicultural World: A Journey Beyond Orientalism by Jingjing Li (Bloomsbury, 2022) starts its investigation with a longstanding question in the comparative studies of phenomenology and …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast December 11, 2022

Non-Duality

A Discussion with Peter Fenner

Peter G. Fenner

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
Peter Fenner, Ph.D, is an adapter and teacher of non-duality, and an author. His two books, Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditioned Awareness (Sounds True, 2007) and Natural Awakening: An Advanced Guide for …
Indian Religions December 8, 2022

Words for the Heart

A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India

Maria Heim

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India (Princeton UP, 2022) is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India’s earliest classical languages. Inspired …
Indian Religions November 28, 2022

The Future of Religious Studies

A Conversation with Russell McCutcheon

Russell McCutcheon

Hosted by Raj Balkaran
Russell McCutcheon shares his views on the academic study of religion, and the path ahead for religion graduates and the field itself. McCutcheon is a professor of religious studies at …
Philosophy November 21, 2022

The Tattvasaṃgraha Of Śāntarakṣita

Selected Metaphysical Chapters

Charles Goodman

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
The Tattvasaṃgraha of Śāntarakṣita: Selected Metaphysical Chapters (Oxford University Press, 2022) collects excerpts from a massive encyclopedic work of the late period of Buddhism in India. Translator Charles Goodman has …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast November 18, 2022

Buddhist Medicine and Buddish

A Discussion with C. Pierce Salguero

C. Pierce Salguero

Hosted by Matthew O'Connell
In this episode, Pierce Salguero comes on to discuss two of his books: Buddhish, A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical (Beacon Press …
Philosophy October 20, 2022

Cross-Cultural Existentialism

On the Meaning of Life in Asian and Western Thought

Leah Kalmanson

Hosted by Malcolm Keating
Does human existence have a meaning? If so, is that meaning found in the world outside of us, or is it something we bring to our experience? In Cross-Cultural Existentialism …