Category: Buddhism

September 28, 2018

Zhenjun Zhang on Liu Yiqing’s Hidden and Visible Realms

This week for National Translation Month we have been featuring Sinophone literature in English translation. As part of that feature, we have a guest post today written by Zhenjun Zhang, an associate professor of Asian studies at St. Lawrence University...

September 27, 2018

Q&A with Max Oidtmann on Forging the Golden Urn

A Qing law mandated that the reincarnations of prominent Tibetan Buddhist monks be identified by drawing lots from a golden urn. In Forging the Golden Urn, Max Oidtmann traces how a Chinese bureaucratic technology was exported to the Tibetan and Mongolian regions...

September 14, 2018

Monstrous Media: Keller Kimbrough on Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds

As part of our ongoing feature celebrating National Translation Month, today we have a guest post written by Keller Kimbrough, who edited Monsters, Animals and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales with with Haruo Shirane. Don’t forget...

May 13, 2016

Dharma and Drugs

Listen to Douglas Osto and Erik Davis discuss perennialism, experiential narratives, the limits of reason, and ALTERED STATES on the Expanding Mind podcast.

May 12, 2016

A Neuropsychological Model of Altered States of Consciousness

Read an excerpt from Douglas Osto’s ALTERED STATES: BUDDHISM AND PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY IN AMERICA.

May 11, 2016

Douglas Osto on the relationship between Buddhism and psychedelics in America

Watch Douglas Osto, author of ALTERED STATES: BUDDHISM AND PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY IN AMERICA, introduce his book.

May 10, 2016

Buddhism, Psychedelic Spirituality, and the Religious Landscape of America

Read the preface to Douglas Osto’s ALTERED STATES: BUDDHISM AND PSYCHEDELIC SPIRITUALITY IN AMERICA.

December 22, 2014

Evan Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, Being reviewed in the New York Times

Read Adam Frank’s NYTimes review of Evan Thompson’s WAKING, DREAMING, BEING: SELF AND CONSCIOUSNESS IN NEUROSCIENCE, MEDITATION, AND PHILOSOPHY!

November 14, 2014

Francisco Varela and Waking, Dreaming, Being

Read an excerpt of an interview with Evan Thompson from the Wild River Review in which he discusses the influence of Francisco Varela on WAKING, DREAMING, BEING.

November 13, 2014

Waking, Dreaming, Being

Read a blog post by Evan Thompson on the importance of dreaming in his own work and in the construction of a coherent concept of a “self.”

November 12, 2014

Evan Thompson talks to Tricycle Magazine

Read an interview with WAKING, DREAMING, BEING author Evan Thompson, excerpted from Tricycle Magazine.

November 11, 2014

The Dalai Lama’s Conjecture

Read the final section of Evan Thompson’s prologue to WAKING, DREAMING, BEING, cross-posted from the Mind & Life Institute.