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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
August 10, 2022
On the Hungry Ghost
An Discussion with Dalena Storm
Dalena Storm
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dalena Storm is a writer and educator. Her undergraduate training at Williams College was in Asian Studies with a Religious Studies Concentration, and her experiences in the study and practice …
On Religion
August 5, 2022
On Staying Grounded in Uncertain Times
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 as …
On Religion
August 4, 2022
On Jukai and Zen Training
A Discussion with Robert Schaefer
Robert Schaefer
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Robert Schaefer is a professional chef and lifelong Buddhist practitioner. He received the Jukai ceremony at the Korinji Rinzai Monastery in Wisconsin under the direction of Roshi Meido Moore. …
On Religion
August 3, 2022
On Naked in the Zendo
A Discussion with Roshi Grace Schireson
Roshi Grace Schireson
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Roshi Grace Schireson is a teacher in the Suzuki Roshi Lineage of Soto Zen, empowered by Sojun Mel Weitsman. She has also practiced in the Rinzai tradition and was encouraged …
On Religion
July 29, 2022
On Tibetan Buddhist Vegetarianism
A Discussion with Geoffrey Barstow
Geoffrey Barstow
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dr. Geoffrey Barstow is assistant professor of religious studies at Oregon State University. His research focuses on the history and theory of vegetarianism in Tibet. He is the editor and …
On Religion
July 21, 2022
On Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen
A Discussion with Brad Warner
Brad Warner
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Ordained as a Soto Zen priest, Brad Warner is also a punk bassist, filmmaker, and blogger. He is the founder of Angel City Zen Center in Los Angeles and the …
Environmental Studies
July 14, 2022
Climate Politics and the Power of Religion
Evan Berry
Hosted by
Brady McCartney
How does our faith affect how we think about and respond to climate change? Climate Politics and the Power of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2022) is an edited collection that explores …
On Religion
July 14, 2022
On the Life of Jamgon Kongtrul
A Discussion with Alex Gardner
Alex Gardner
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dr. Alex Gardner is the author of the brand new biography, The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great, out now from Snow Lion, an imprint of Shambhala Publications. Gardner is …
On Religion
July 13, 2022
On Tonglen Meditation
A Discussion with Lama Palden Drolma
Lama Palden Drolma
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Lama Palden Drolma is a western teacher trained by Tibetan Buddhist masters. She the founder of Sukhasiddhi Foundation. She is a licensed psychotherapist, spiritual teacher, coach, and has studied Buddhism …
On Religion
July 11, 2022
On Prescribing the Dharma
A Discussion with Ira Helderman
Ira Helderman
Hosted by
Gregory Soden
Dr. Ira Helderman is a psychotherapist in private practice and he holds a PhD in religious studies. He's the author of Prescribing the Dharma (University of North Carolina Press). …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel
July 7, 2022
How Religion Evolved
And Why It Endures
Robin Dunbar
Hosted by
Renee Garfinkel
What is the evolutionary purpose of religion, and are some individuals more inclined than others to be religious? Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years …
The Imperfect Buddha Podcast
July 1, 2022
Derrida Meets Nagarjuna
A Discussion with Peter Salmon
Peter Salmon
Hosted by
Matthew O'Connell
In an historic event, the second Buddha himself Nagarjuna returns from the dead to team up with Jacques Derrida, non-Buddha, perhaps, to take on emptiness. They clash with identity politics …
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 …
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