Best Gathering With Roger B Podcasts (2025)

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#76 Out of the Darkness Into The Light - Nature 56:43

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Send us a text This is the second in a 4 part series. Out of the darkness into the light. To grow in spirit we MUST open our hearts for the light to come in. That light is the light that transforms and transcends mans world, the appearance of things. New eyes to see, new ears to hear. Nature is transformative when I open my heart and senses to what…

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Kin Cheung, "Teaching Asia during a Resurgence of Anti-Asian Racism" (ASS, 2025) 43:36

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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 COVID-19 pandemic forced schools and universities around the world to close their doors, reshaping education overnight. Teachers scrambled to reimagine their classrooms in online spaces, while students …

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Catherine Hartmann, "Making the Invisible Real: Practice of Seeing in Tibetan Pilgrimage" (Oxford UP, 2025) 1:07:20

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Dr. Catherine Hartmann is Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at University of Wyoming. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia in 2011, M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago in 2013, and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the Study of R…

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#75 Out of the Darkness into the Light 55:12

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Send us a text This is the first in a 4 part series. Out of the darkness into the light. To grow in spirit we MUST open our hearts for the light to come in. That light is the light that transforms and transcends mans world, the appearance of things. New eyes to see, new ears to hear. This contains a rich group sharing on this topic. It serves your …

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Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias 1:15:52

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In today’s episode, Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Miguel Farias, an experimental psychologist and researcher of religion, spirituality, and cognition. Together we try to get to the bottom of whether meditation is actually good for you through a comparison of Miguel's research on the adverse effects of meditation with my research on Asian notio…

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#74 Relationship Failure! 54:59

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Send us a text The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. This what informs our twisted relations with family, friends, money sex, possessions and society in general. Listen to the Gathering community discuss what they have leaned and the way to rise above it all Sponsored …

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Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:57:53

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Consciousness Mattering (Bloombury, 2023) presents a contemporary Buddhist theory in which brains, bodies, environments, and cultures are relational infrastructures for human consciousness. Drawing on insights from meditation, neuroscience, physics, and evolutionary theory, it demonstrates that human consciousness is not something that occurs only …

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#73...Ah Yes, The Critics 56:40

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Send us a text When I am criticized I often see it as an assault. My critic is sharing a point of view, not necessarily the Truth. What tools do I have at my disposal? P.A.U.S.E (practice awareness until Spirit emerges) or fro Cathy W.A.I.T ( why am I talking?) There is a great discussion here to stimulate reflection and thinking. Sponsored by GOPH…

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Mick Brown, "The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West" (Oxford UP, 2023) 1:43:10

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Mick Brown’s The Nirvana Express: How the Search for Enlightenment Went West (Oxford UP, 2023) is a riveting account about the West's engagement with Eastern spirituality across a century. It traces the life of multiple characters that intersected across time and space to create a network of interlinking stories about saints, salesmen and scoundrel…

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#72 Twisted Relationships 58:49

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Send us a text The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. Whats your program for happiness, how's it working? This is a discussion on what, why and how do we learn and do better. Includes group discussion. Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flas…

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Peter D. Hershock, "Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future" (Bloomsbury, 2021) 1:12:16

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Machine learning, big data and AI are reshaping the human experience and forcing us to develop a new ethical intelligence. In Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (Bloomsbury, 2021), Peter Hershock offers a new way to think about attention, personal presence, and ethics as intelligent technology shatters previously found…

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#71 Acceptance 1:01:53

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Send us a text Acceptance - to believe as if a fact. My thinking, established way of "seeing" the world, people and events is what blocks my ability to accept. Types of thinking, Cognitive distortions - All or Nothing , Catastrophizing, Minimization, Generalization to name a few...the result we suffer from our own painful attitudes and perceptions.…

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#70 Lay Your Burden Down 46:46

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Send us a text One hurt at a time, another instance of indifference, one more failure - the burden of external referral. The false self uses the past and the future to torture us.I have to let it go! Lay it down! Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1…

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# 69 Influences and Random Acts of Kindness 1:01:23

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Send us a text How did I end up where I am? What are the ideas and events that shaped me? How do I construct a new life from this point forward? Whats a random act of kindness and what value is it to me? Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1st & 3rd …

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#68 Everyday a Decision 56:50

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Send us a text Everyday is full of decisions, some I make conciously some not so much, when I choose out of fear it's a reaction, not a choice. The necessary tool here is the "pause" Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#67 7 Aspects of God.... #7 God is Principle 1:04:14

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Send us a text God is Principle, the Principle of perfect harmony, and therefore perfect harmony is the Law of Being. You and I are created and part of that perfect harmony. Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom 72…

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Magic, Death, and Necromancy with Justin McDaniel 58:39

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**Warning: This episode contains potentially disturbing content!** On this episode of the Black Beryl, I sit down with Justin McDaniel, a scholar of Theravada Buddhist literature and art. Together we explore the darker side of Thai Buddhism, including meditation on decomposing bodies, fetus spirits, corpse oil, and the spectrum of white and black m…

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Roger R. Jackson, "Saraha: Poet of Blissful Awareness" (Shambhala, 2024) 44:29

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The life and works of the mysterious Indian yogin, Saraha, who has inspired Buddhist practitioners for over a thousand years. Saraha, “the Archer,” was a mysterious but influential tenth-century Indian Buddhist tantric adept who expressed his spiritual realization in mystic songs (dohās) that are enlightening, shocking, and confounding by turns. Sa…

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#66 7 Aspects of God....#6 God is Spirit 56:31

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Send us a text God is Spirit. Spirit is that which cannot be destroyed or degraded in any way The Universe is constantly renewing itself. You and I are a part of that Universe! Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom…

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Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020) 56:07

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Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270 (UCL Press, 2020) is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic i…

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#65 7 Aspects of God - #5 God is Soul 53:05

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Send us a text God is Soul! You are the Presence of God at this point in time and Space. Interesting discussion. God is God, and someone aptly said, "Man is the by-means-of." I am used as a vessel for the message & Love to come through. Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FU…

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Nathan McGovern, "Holy Things: The Genealogy of the Sacred in Thai Religion" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:07:20

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Scholars of religion have mostly abandoned the concept of "syncretism" in which certain apparent deviations from "standard" practice are believed to be the result of a mixture of religions. This is particularly relevant to Thailand, in which ordinary religious practice was seen by an earlier generation of scholars as a mixture of three religions: l…

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#64 7 Aspects of God #4 God is Intellegence 57:08

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Send us a text God is Intelligence - not God is Intelligent but Intelligence itself. Interesting discussion. In an Intelligent Universe there can be neither cruelty or waste. Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom 7…

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Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence 1:54:54

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Glenn’s latest, Non Buddhist Mysticism: Performing Irreducible and Primitive Presence (Eyecorner Press, 2022), presents a radical reorientation to “spiritual” practice. Drawing from François Laruelle’s concept of future mysticism and the author’s own previous work on non-buddhism, Glenn Wallis galvanizes a materialist spirituality for the twenty-fi…

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#63 7 Aspects of God #3 God Is Love 1:03:16

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Send us a text God is Love - not God is Loving but Love itself..interesting discussion Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM (FULL SITE) The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom 728-200-4166 PW 513915 WWW.GSTL.ECWID.COM (OUR STORE) Support the show PLEASE BECOME A GA…

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#62 7 Aspects of God -#2 God is Truth 52:06

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Send us a text God is Truth - not relative but absolute Truth..interesting discussion Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom 728-200-4166 PW 513915 Support the show PLEASE BECOME A GATHERING SUBSCRIBER FOR AS LITTLE AS $3.00 PE…

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#61 7 Aspects of God ... #1 God is Life 1:06:31

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Send us a text God is the creative force in-bedded in all life. includes discussion Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom 728-200-4166 PW 513915 Support the show PLEASE BECOME A GATHERING SUBSCRIBER FOR AS LITTLE AS $3.00 PER …

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#60 The Myth of Self 25:46

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Send us a text This idea of "me" where does/did it come from? Who is my True Self, why am I here? Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time - zoom 728-200-4166 PW 513915 Support the show PLEASE BECOME A GATHERING SUBSCRIBER FOR AS LITTLE…

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#54 The Search for God Part 3 52:10

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 3 is the 3rd Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#52 The Search for God Part 1 59:15

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 1 is the first Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central tim…

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#58 The Search for God Part 7 54:01

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 7 is the 7th Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#51 The Foundation 47:35

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Send us a text Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed7pm Central time zoom 728-200-4166 PW 513915 Support the show PLEASE BECOME A GATHERING SUBSCRIBER FOR AS LITTLE AS $3.00 PER MONTH, WE ARE IN OVER 600 CITIES AND 41 COUNTRIES, YOUR SUPPORT IS VITAL…

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#59 The Search for God Part 8 57:37

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 8 is the 8th Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#56 The search for God Part 5 53:01

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 5 is the 5th Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#55 The Search for God Part 4 1:01:05

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 4 is the 4th Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#53 The Search for God Part 2 48:42

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 2 is the 2nd Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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#57 The Search for God Part 6 55:01

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Send us a text This series is a study of the Be Attitudes and how they compare with the Principles and Concepts embedded in the 12 Steps. includes group discussion! Part 6 is the 6th Be Attitude Sponsored by GOPHER STATE TAPE LIBRARY. get CD's, Downloads and flashdrives (over 5000 items) WWW.GETGSTL.COM The Gathering 1st & 3rd Wed 7pm Central time …

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Adeana McNicholl, "Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta Narratives Constructed Buddhist Cosmology and Shaped Buddhist Ethics" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:00:06

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In Buddhist cosmology, pretas make up one of several categories of rebirth. They are best known as "hungry ghosts," pitiful beings with miniscule mouths and bloated stomachs whose state of extreme starvation is a result of stinginess and immorality in a former life. But they were not always portrayed in this way. Of Ancestors and Ghosts: How Preta …

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Rafal K. Stepien, "Buddhism Between Religion and Philosophy: Nāgārjuna and the Ethics of Emptiness" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:20:20

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Nāgārjuna (c. 150-250), founder of the Madhyamaka or Middle Way school of Buddhist philosophy and the most influential of all Buddhist thinkers aside from the Buddha himself, concludes his masterpiece, Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way, with these baffling verses: For the abandonment of all views He taught the true teaching By means of compassio…

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The Body in Classical Hathayoga, with Ruth Westoby 57:21

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In this episode Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Ruth Westoby a scholar, teacher, and practitioner of yoga. We discuss Ruth’s work on the body in early hatha yoga texts. We talk about the broad diversity of approaches to the material body in these sources, including their ideas about gender, the cultivation of powers, and approaches to liberation.…

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Christopher P. Miller et al., "Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age" (Lexington, 2019) 45:40

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Today’s globalized society faces some of humanity’s most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting new and insightful approaches to a range of these challenges, Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age (Lexington, 2019) draws upon individual cases of exemplary leadership from the world’s Dharma traditions—Hindui…

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Alone in a World of Wounds with Zen Abbot Shodhin Geiman 1:29:16

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Shodhin Geiman is Sensei & Abbot at Chicago Zen Center and recently retired Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University. He has written on aspects of the Dharma and on points of interface between Buddhist and Christian spirituality. His book, Alone in a World of Wounds: A Dharmic Response to the Ills of Sentient Beings (Cascade Books, 2022).…

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Justine Chambers, "Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar" (NUS Press, 2024) 49:52

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What is the right way to live? This is an old question in Western moral philosophy, but in recent years anthropologists have turned their attention to this question in what has been called, a “moral turn”. In this original ethnographic study, Pursuing Morality: Buddhism and Everyday Ethics in Southeastern Myanmar (NUS Press, 2024), Justine Chambers…

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Yoga, Disability, and Animism, with Theo Wildcroft 1:04:35

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In this episode, Dr Pierce Salguero sits down with Dr Theodora Wildcroft, a researcher, anthropologist, and long-time teacher of what she calls “post-lineage yoga.” We discuss Theo's ethnographic research on yoga in the UK, focusing on its connections with animism, paganism, and other somatic practices. We also dive into Theo’s personal approach to…

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D. E. Osto, "Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert Communities" (Columbia UP, 2024) 54:56

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A number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and encounters with other beings such as ghosts and deities, and they often interpret these events through a specifically Buddhist lens. Paranormal States: Psy…

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Stephanie Balkwill, "The Women Who Ruled China: Buddhism, Multiculturalism, and Governance in the Sixth Century" (U California Press, 2024) 1:06:54

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In the late fifth century, a girl whose name has been forgotten by history was born at the edge of the Chinese empire. By the time of her death, she had transformed herself into Empress Dowager Ling, one of the most powerful politicians of her age and one of the first of many Buddhist women to wield incredible influence in dynastic East Asia. In th…

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Stephen Harris, "Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Santideva on Virtue and Well-Being" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 1:18:20

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An influential eighth-century Buddhist text, Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra, or Guide to the Practices of Awakening, how to become a supremely virtuous person, a bodhisattva who desires to end the suffering of all sentient beings. Stephen Harris’s Buddhist Ethics and the Bodhisattva Path: Śāntideva on Virtue and Well-Being (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024)…

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Rory Lindsay, "Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvardurgatipariśodhana Tantra" (WSTB, 2024) 43:04

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Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvardurgatipariśodhana Tantra (WSTB, 2024) explores Tibetan funerary manuals based on the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (SDP), focusing on the writings of the Sa skya author Rje btsun Grags pa rgyal mtshan (1147–1216) and the diverse forms of agency—human, nonhuman, and material—a…

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Neena Mahadev, "Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:24:28

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Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist monk, as well as allegations of proselytizing in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami and during the…

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Cameron Bailey and Aleksandra Wenta, "Tibetan Magic: Past and Present" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 46:06

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Tibetan Magic: Past and Present (Bloomsbury, 2024) focuses on the theme of magic in Tibetan contexts, encompassing both pre-modern and modern text-cultures as well as contemporary practices. It offers a new understanding of the identity and role of magical specialists in both historical and contemporary contexts. Combining the theoretical approache…

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