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NBN Episodes hosted by Scott:
August 23, 2012
Locations of Buddhism
In this important contribution to both the study of South Asian Buddhism as well the burgeoning field of Buddhist modernity, Anne Blackburn's Location…
July 20, 2012
Dixie Dharma
Americanists have long employed a trope of regionalism to better understand American religions, beliefs, and practices. As many of us know, either by …
May 10, 2012
The Face of Jizo
In this episode, we talk with Prof. Hank Glassman who's written a new book titled The Face of Jizo : Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Uni…
November 3, 2011
Knowing Body, Moving Mind
There is a lot of ritual involved in Buddhist practice. As more and more North Americans are discovering Buddhism, they are engaging in more and more …
October 5, 2011
An American Buddhist Life
Charles Prebish is among the most prominent scholars of American Buddhism. He has been a pioneer in studying the forms that Buddhist tradition has tak…
September 23, 2011
Travels in the Netherworld
Today on "New Books in Buddhist Studies" we'll be going to hell and back with Bryan Cuevas in a discussion of his new book Travels in the Netherworld:…
September 2, 2011
The Making of Buddhist Modernism
For many Asian and Western Buddhists today, Buddhism means meditation and an embrace of the world's interdependence. But that's not what it meant to B…
June 20, 2011
Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan
Scholars have long been fascinated by the Kamakura era (1185-1333) of Japanese history, a period that saw the emergence of many distinctively Japanese…
June 10, 2011
The Unlikely Buddhologist
The 20th-century Chinese philosopher Mou Zongsan is relatively little known in the West, but has been greatly influential in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mai…
June 3, 2011
Spreading Dhamma
New media technology changes culture. And when it comes to religion, new technology changes the way people think and practice their traditions. And wh…