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
David Wells on "Winds in Traditional Thai Yoga"
David Wells introduces Thai Yoga, “Reusi Dat Ton,” and its place within the traditions of Buddhist Yoga and Mahasiddhas. Tracing its development from India into Nepal, Tibet and the Ancient Lanna King...
25 Okt 202129min
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on "Winds in Transit: Experiencing Breath in Translation"
Heinrich Jäschke, a nineteenth-century Moravian missionary to Ladakh, is mostly known amongst scholars of Tibet for his pioneering 1881 Tibetan–English Dictionary. In his entry on ‘rlung’—a fundamenta...
18 Okt 202121min
Napakadol Kittisenee on "Two Accounts of Mindfulness in the Face of Death Sentence"
This presentation by Napakadol Kittisenee offers two insightful accounts of the (former) prisoners on the brink of their death sentence. This illuminates how both of them went through self-transformat...
18 Okt 202121min
Footnotes on "Qi cultivation in qigong and taiji quan"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for an article by Gideon Enz, "Qi cultivation in qigong and taiji quan," in Energy Medicine East and West, Edited by David Mayor, Marc S. Micozzi, Churchill Livingst...
27 Sep 202112min
Footnotes on "Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for an article by Shigehisa Kuriyama, "Pneuma, Qi, and the Problematic of Breath," in The Comparison Between Concepts of Life-Breath in East and West (Proceedings of...
27 Sep 202115min
