Living mountains and mineral intimacies in Mongolia
A conversation with Jessica Madison Pískatá, a cultural anthropologist who studies relationships between humans and geological landscapes on the peripheries of Cold War empires. Pískatá is now Visitin...
17 Huhti 202437min
A Clinical Bioethicist on End-of-Life Decision-Making
Dr. Sean Hillman discusses caregiving work and his research on end-of-life care in India through the lenses of religious studies, bioethics and the law. He talks about how religious views affect end-o...
23 Kesä 202251min
The Paisley Gate: Intersections of Buddhism & Psychedelics
As psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies march towards likely legality for therapeutic purposes, we may ask how Buddhism and psychedelics intersect. In this episode, Kerry Helston explores some challe...
14 Kesä 202235min
ReOrienting Medicine on the Silk Roads
A conversation with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on her ground-breaking 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Ronit's research on Eurasian medical history illuminates cr...
2 Kesä 202238min
How Buddhism Shapes Medical Care
A conversation with Pierce Salguero on his 2022 book, A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine. Pierce explains what it means to talk about "Buddhist medicine", how medical texts and healing practice...
23 Touko 202241min
Becoming a Buddhist Spiritual Care Provider
A conversation about Buddhist spiritual care work with Joanne Yuasa, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist minister who is also in training to be a military chaplain. Joanne talks about how she came to Buddhism as ...
20 Touko 202234min
Using Mantras for Healing in Tibetan Medicine
Thinley Gyatso discusses the use of mantras in Tibetan medical practice. He describes early medical texts that address how mantras are used as healing tools, and reports on conversations with Tibetan ...
19 Touko 202215min
Exploring the Healing Powers of Demonic Forces
Jonathan Morgan examines the role of the demonic in Buddhism, with a focus on Tibetan perspectives. He looks into how animistic traditions, such as Tibetan Bon, co-exist with Buddhism, and he asks: ar...
19 Touko 202228min
