Susannah Deane on "Tibetan Notions of Wind in Mental Health and Illness"
This presentation explores how Tibetan Buddhist and medical notions of the relationship between heart, wind and mind come together to explain the (dys)functioning of the mind, and how this is understo...
20 Des 202118min
Geoffrey Samuel on "Wind and Breath in Tibetan Thought"
Breath and wind concepts are widespread in Asia, and the Tibetans inherited both Yogic and Tantric prāṇa and Ayurvedic vāta, both translated into Tibetan as rlung. This proved a constructive confluenc...
13 Des 202130min
Anne Klein on "Breath: In the Body and Beyond"
Anne Klein starts with a few phenomenological reflections on how easeful attention to breath resolves structures that constrict our experience of being. What does breath feel like, and what does it br...
6 Des 202119min
Thomas Patton on "Buddhist Wizards, Breath Meditation, and Superpowers"
Preached by the Buddha, prescribed by psychologists, and practiced by people from all faiths and walks of life, breath meditation is one of the most popular meditation practices to have emerged from B...
29 Nov 202111min
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko on "Windhorse, Smog, and the Stagnation of Vital Energies"
This presentation will describe how urban Mongolians navigate the capital city Ulaanbaatar’s chronic air pollution in relation to breath, clarity, bodily winds and purification. It will describe how b...
22 Nov 202119min
Nathan Michon on "Breath Energy and Healing in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism"
This presentation briefly introduces the Japanese Vajrayana tradition of Shingon Buddhism and a few of its fundamental breathing techniques. It then summarizes some of the ways such meditative practic...
15 Nov 202127min
Kin Cheung on "Blurry Boundaries Between Breath/Qi/Ki and Buddhism"
This conversation will consider Seng Kan Cheung, a contemporary Chinese American religious healer who uses qigong, reiki, and Buddhist spells. He shares these practices and exchanges healing with a co...
8 Nov 202122min
David Collins on "Experiencing the Theravādin Buddhist Jhāna Absorptions through the Breath"
In this presentation, the place of the Old School Buddhist form jhāna absorptions within Theravādin meditation practice is outlined, with a note on the modern history of their practice. The heart of t...
1 Nov 202129min
