Category: Publications
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,…
ARTICLE : “The Case of the Missing Shangpas in Tibet”
“The Case of the Missing Shangpas in Tibet.” In Reasons and Lives in Buddhist Traditions: Studies in Honor…
ARTICLE : “Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen on Refraining from Meat”
“Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen on Refraining from Meat.” In The Faults of Meat: Tibetan Buddhist Writings on Vegetarianism. Edited…
BLOG : What is Rainbow Body?
Post on the Lion’s Roar, What is the Rainbow Body? “In Vajrayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, tangible matter…
ARTICLE : “Teaching Contemplation in 3D”
Article that outlines contemplation in three dimensions: (1) Reflection, (2) Contextualization, and (3) Transformation. Published in a thematic…
ARTICLE : “The Jonangpa after Tāranātha”
“THE JONANGPA AFTER TĀRANĀTHA: AUTO/BIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS ON THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC BUDDHIST KNOWLEDGE IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TIBET” MICHAEL…
TALK : “Contemplation and the Sciences in Dialogue”
Talk, “Contemplation and the Sciences in Dialogue: On the Horizon of New Ways of Knowing” presented at the Science…
TRANSLATION : “Traversing the Path of Meditation”
Translation with introduction to two Tibetan texts on concise meditation instructions, “Traversing the Path of Meditation” by the…
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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