The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford
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S1E15 Travelogue: The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
At the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah, California, we talk to professors, monks, nuns, and laypeople about the acquisition of the historic property and the 600-mile bowing pilgrimage that…
S1E14 Christian Luczanits: Mustang Art and the Myth of the Hidden Kingdom
Christian Luczanits talks about the eccentricities of early Buddhist art in the Mustang region of the Himalayas, the intellectual exchange that ran through the region long before its 15th-century…
S1E13 Chiew Hui Ho: The Lives of Sūtras
Chiew Hui Ho talks about parasutraic texts in medieval China that chronicle devotion to specific sūtras, how these histories give us a picture of “Buddhism on the ground” distinct from that of…
S1E12 Joshua Capitanio: The Work of the Scholar-Librarian
Joshua Capitanio talks about his graduate work on medieval Chinese Buddho-Daoism, how translation projects and “second book” arguments are valued inside and outside the professoriate, and what it…
S1E11 Book Notes: Meir Shahar, "Kings of Oxen and Horses"
Meir Shahar talks about the cult worship of the “Ox King” and the “Horse King” in China. Working at the intersection of scriptural studies and field research, Shahar connects the two animal gods back…
S1E10 Book Notes: Adeana McNicholl, "Of Ancestors and Ghosts"
Adeana McNicholl talks about the misunderstood realm of the “pretas,” typically translated as the home of “hungry ghosts” but in fact host to an entire history of the ancestral “departed.” Following…
S1E9 Travelogue: Gil Fronsdal and the Insight Meditation Center
Gil Fronsdal talks about studying in Buddhist monasteries from Big Sur to Bangkok, founding the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, and creating an integrated Buddhist world culture through…
S1E8 James Gentry: The Bodhisattva’s Body in a Pill
James Gentry talks about the thousand-year history of the Tibetan maṇi pill, back to its medieval origins in an age of Mongol invasions and epidemics, through an infusion of psychoactive fungi for…
S1E7 Ralph H. Craig III: Preachers and Teachers, from the Dharmabhāṇakas to Tina Turner
Ralph H. Craig III talks about crafting constructive analogies between Christian and Buddhist liturgies, characterizing the ideal preachers (dharmabhāṇakas) described in Mahāyāna sūtras, and Tina…
S1E6 Allan Ding: Chan Ritual and the Zhāi Feast
Allan Ding talks 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…
S1E5 Marcus Bingenheimer: AI and Total Translation
Marcus Bingenheimer talks 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,…
S1E4 Julian Butterfield: Joy in the Lotus Sūtra
Julian Butterfield talks 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…
S1E3 Pia Brancaccio: Cave Monasteries and the Cotton Road in Western Deccan
Pia Brancaccio talks 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…
S1E2 Stephen Bokenkamp: Daoism and Buddhism in China
Stephen Bokenkamp talks 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…
S1E1 Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā: Integrating Academic and Monastic Lives
Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā talks 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,…
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The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford has published 15 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Buddhism, Education.
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford is currently highly active with new episodes monthly. Average episode length is 41m.
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