The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford podcast features faculty, graduate students, visiting speakers, and alumni in conversation with Communications Manager Miles Osgood on the history, philosophy, and practice of Buddhism. Interviews are intended to be both academic and accessible: topics range from scholarly publications and insights to personal journeys and reflections. Interview videos are posted on YouTube, @thehocenterforbuddhiststudies. For more information about our events, ...
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Allan Ding: Chan Ritual and the Zhāi Feast
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Miles Osgood talks to Allan Ding about why the Chan monk Moheyan lost the 8th-century “Samyé Debate” over the future of Tibetan Buddhism, how medieval Chinese Buddhists shifted from “antiritualism” to accepting the “zhāi” feast, and what forms of religious imagination scholars can adopt from liturgical practices. Yi (Allan) Ding received his bachel…
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Marcus Bingenheimer: AI and Total Translation
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Miles Osgood talks to Marcus Bingenheimer about why new tools in the Digital Humanities demand new genres of scholarship, what network analysis reveals about the transmission of religious ideas in medieval China, and how AI’s large language models will help arcane texts reach a new global readership. Marcus Bingenheimer is Associate Professor in th…
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Julian Butterfield: Joy in the Lotus Sūtra
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Miles Osgood talks to Julian Butterfield about the winding path to a dissertation topic, overcoming exegetical resistance to emotional affect in religious literature, and the central role of joyful anumodanā (隨喜 suixi) in the Lotus Sūtra. Julian Butterfield holds a BA in Comparative Literature and Religious Studies (2016) and an MA in Religious Stu…
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Pia Brancaccio: Cave Monasteries and the Cotton Road in Western Deccan
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Miles Osgood talks to Pia Brancaccio about the Buddhist cave monasteries of Western Deccan, the inter-continental exchange of "Maritime Buddhism" along the "Cotton Road," and the competition between Buddhism and Shaivism at the end of the first millennium C.E. Pia Brancaccio is currently a Professor of Indian Art and Archaeology at the Università d…
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Stephen Bokenkamp: Daoism and Buddhism in China
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Miles Osgood talks to Stephen Bokenkamp about his fieldwork in China after the Cultural Revolution, how to better understand the original encounter between Daoism and Buddhism in the 2nd to 6th centuries C.E., and what Daoist and Buddhist Studies can learn from one another today. Stephen R. Bokenkamp (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1986)…
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Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā: Integrating Academic and Monastic Lives
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Miles Osgood talks to Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā about the journey of her research in relation to the historical transmission of Buddhist texts, the process of integrating her two lives as an academic and monastic, and the relevance of Buddhism’s “two truths” doctrine in the present day. Born in Italy in 1980, Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā went forth as a …
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