Category: News
EVENT : Serenity Ridge Dialogues – “Body, Breath, & Mind”
Serenity Ridge Dialogues: Body, Breath, & Mind October 9-11, 2020 Live program is free online. This is the…
EULOGY : The Cool Wizardry of Steven D. Goodman (1945-2020)
Eulogy published by the Lion’s Roar website. Steven D. Goodman (b. 1945) was a maverick scholar, poet, translator,…
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…
Tweets
NEW BIO by @michaelrsheehy
Jetsunma Kunga Trinle Wangmo: 17th cent. yoginī, author, Jonang lineage-holder, disciple & consort of Tāranātha. She lived a contemplative life immersed in yogic practice, wrestled with political + social unrest of the time.
https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Jetsunma-Kunga-Trinle-Wangmo
my biography now up on @treasuryoflives of the 17th c. Tibetan woman author & yogini, Trinle Wangmo - a lineage-holder & key figure in the transmission of the Jonang order - #Tibet - https://treasuryoflives.org/biographies/view/Jetsunma-Kunga-Trinle-Wangmo/11183
this research has broad implications for how we conceive contemplative practices - #yoga -
A new article in which I show how the term haṭhayoga originated in tantric Buddhism and then came to denote physical yoga practice broadly conceived. https://www.academia.edu/44326659/Haṭhayogas_Early_History_From_Vajrayāna_Sexual_Restraint_to_Universal_Somatic_Soteriology
tune-in this coming Monday morning at 7:50am ET for a brief #meditation led by @UVA’s Dean Solomon - #medlawn
Dean Ian H. Solomon of @UVABatten will lead the first 5-minute Virtual Meditation on the Lawn this Monday, 10/19!
Free & open to all! Registration is required.
Check out the schedule to see who will guide the next several sessions: http://bit.ly/CSC_MOL https://twitter.com/UVA_HR/status/1317178500931936257
my latest paper out via Revue d'Etudes Tibétaines - on #dreams & life of a 17th c. Tibetan woman author & yogini - "Materializing Dreams and Omens: The Autobiographical Subjectivity of the Tibetan Yoginī Kun dga' 'Phrin las dbang mo (1585-1668)" #Tibet -https://www.academia.edu/44303062/Materializing_Dreams_and_Omens_The_Autobiographical_Subjectivity_of_the_Tibetan_Yogin%C4%AB_Kun_dga_Phrin_las_dbang_mo_1585_1668_