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NBN Episodes hosted by Alex:
December 26, 2023
Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns
Dr. Alice Collett’s monograph Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History (Oxford University Press, 2016) delves into the lives of six of the…
April 2, 2020
From the Fifty Jātaka
The Jātaka tales, or stories of the Buddha’s previous lives as a bodhisatta, are included in the Pāli Canon and have for centuries been a rich source …
September 18, 2019
McMindfulness
In his recent exposé, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality (Repeater Books, 2019), Ronald Purser Ph.D. takes a hard l…
August 12, 2019
Remembering the Present
How do you understand mindfulness? Is your understanding limited by your own culture’s definition of what mindfulness is? These are some of the questi…
August 5, 2019
Guardians of the Buddha’s Home
In her recent ethnography, Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū (University of Hawaii Press, 2019), Prof. Je…
May 9, 2019
Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet
In this podcast, I speak with Prof. Jane Caple about her recently published book, Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet (University of Hawai…
April 1, 2019
Rebirth in Early Buddhism and Current Research
In today’s podcast, I speak with German professor and Buddhist monk Bhikkhu Anālayo at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies about his book Rebirth in…
March 26, 2019
Prescribing the Dharma
In today's podcast, I speak with Ira Helderman about his newly published book, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defi…
March 1, 2019
The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra
In this episode of New Books in Buddhist Studies, Dr. Richard Salomon speaks about his book The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introducti…
February 18, 2019
American Sutra
In American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2019), Duncan Ryūken Williams recenters the role of…
February 6, 2019
Buddhism and Pali
Richard Gombrich's new book, Buddhism and Pali (Mud Pie Slices, 2018), puts the richness of the Pali language on display. He introduces the reader to …