Category: News
TALK : Podcast Interview on “The Other Emptiness” Book
An interview on the New Books in Buddhist Studies podcast with Michael Sheehy and Klaus-Dieter Mathes (Vienna University) about…
BOOK : “The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet”
We are thrilled to announce a multi-author collaborative book on the zhentong philosophy of emptiness in Tibetan Buddhism,…
REVIEW : “The Science of Meditation, Beyond the Brain”
Review of the book, “Meditation, Buddhism, and Science” edited by David L. McMahan and Erik Braun. Oxford University Press,…
TALK : “Tantric Zhentong Visions of Tathāgatagarbha in Tibetan Kālacakra Yoga Manuals”
Talk at the Tathāgatagarbha Across Asia Symposium held at the University of Vienna, July 16-19, 2019: “Tantric Zhentong…
ARTICLE : “Teaching Contemplation in 3D”
Article that outlines contemplation in three dimensions: (1) Reflection, (2) Contextualization, and (3) Transformation. Published in a thematic…
TALK : Ligmincha Symposium for Contemplative Sciences
Ligmincha Symposium for Contemplative Sciences: Body, Breath, and Mind . April 2019 at Serenity Ridge Retreat Center,…
TALK : Summer Institute on Buddhism & Science
Presented a talk, “Inner Knowing and the Way of Humans: Epistemologies on the Horizon of the Buddhism /…
TRANSLATION : “Traversing the Path of Meditation”
Translation with introduction to two Tibetan texts on concise meditation instructions, “Traversing the Path of Meditation” by the…
BLOG : “The PhenoTank” – Microphenomenology of Contemplative Experience
Blog article about a Mind & Life Think Tank on the microphenomenology of contemplative practice, and the language…
REVIEW : “Investigating the Rainbow Body”
Review of the book, “Rainbow Body and Resurrection” by Francis V. Tiso. In Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly, Winter…
Tweets
we are looking forward to having Laurence Kirmayer here @uvacsc this Feb 27 for a talk - "Toward an Ecosocial View of Contemplative Practice: Cultural Phenomenology, Regimes of Attention and Narrative Constructions of the Self" - https://csc.virginia.edu/event/toward-ecosocial-view-contemplative-practice-cultural-phenomenology-regimes-attention-and
This remains one of the best introductions to the modern scientific study of consciousness, from @anilkseth and @aeonmag https://buff.ly/2ME6K3o
some critical points being raised by @evantthompson from his new book about science / religion & Buddhist modernism w/ implications about what it means to be a #Buddhist these days. on the @yalepress blog.
A little taste of some of the ideas in my new book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist: Beyond Buddhist Exceptionalism http://blog.yalebooks.com/2020/01/10/beyond-buddhist-exceptionalism/ via @Yale University Press Blog