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Buddhist Studies Footnotes
by Frances Garrett
Footnotes is a series of short lectures or conversations on research in the field of Buddhist Studies. Created by Frances Garrett, a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, with co-host Tony Scott, most episodes are summaries or discussions of articles or book chapters from academic work in the field, with some episodes featuring guest lectures or guest hosts from events and courses at the University of Toronto. We aim to make Buddhist Studies research freely accessible to students and the public.Footnotes was made possible by a grant from eCampusOntario and also receives support from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto. Audio editing has been done by Jesse Whitty and Frances Garrett.
Episodes
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What Would Really Be Lost?
In the final episode of this series, Frances Garrett asks what the disappearance of the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health (BPMH) program would mean beyond the loss of an undergraduate program. Drawing on student voices, classroom recordings, and the program’s twenty-year history, she...
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The Program That Was Doing Too Well
Why would a successful university program be recommended for closure? Episode 4 of this five-part series reconstructs the administrative history behind the suspension of enrolment into the Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health program at the University of Toronto, revealing a striking contrast...
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The View from Nowhere
Can scholars ever stand outside the knowledge they study? Beginning with a dispute over the title of a single university course, this episode examines larger debates about objectivity, evidence, and whose ways of knowing universities recognize as legitimate. Drawing on classroom practices…
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The Experiment
How did an unconventional undergraduate program become an international model for contemplative education? In episode 2 of this five-part series in the podcast Buddhist Studies Footnotes, Frances Garrett traces the origins of BPMH, from its roots in socially engaged Buddhism and the teachings of...
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The Place They Found
What makes a university program unforgettable? In the opening episode of this five-part series, Frances Garrett introduces the University of Toronto's Buddhism, Psychology, and Mental Health (BPMH) program through the voices of students whose lives it transformed. As students describe finding an...
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Ten Thousand Joys, Ten Thousand Sorrows: The Heart of Queer Sangha
A conversation between Kody Muncaster and Ryan 'twinkle' Backer, who is co-founder of Queer Sangha, a Montreal-based group for queer individuals interested in Buddhism and meditation. twinkle shares their journey into Buddhism, starting with a 10-day Vipassana course in 2015, and discusses the...
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LGBTQ+ affirmation in the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist tradition
A conversation between Kody Muncaster and Jeff Wilson, professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies. They discuss Dr. Wilson's journey into Buddhism and Buddhist Studies and his work as an ordained minister in the Jodo Shinshu tradition. Wilson highlights Jodo Shinshu's historical...
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Creating safer spaces for queer and trans Buddhists
A conversation between Kody Muncaster and two representatives from the international Rainbodhi LGBTQIA+ Buddhist Community: Tenzin Tseme from Rainbodhi USA and Myra Blankenship from Rainbodhi Melbourne/Naarm. Rainbodhi is a network for LGBTQIA+ Buddhists to come together in community, sharing...
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Living a queer Buddhist life, with Jampa Wurst
A conversation between Kody Muncaster and Jampa Wurst, as part of a series of interviews with queer folks in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies. Dr. Jampa Wurst is a queer, non-binary Buddhist and founder of the International Queer Buddhist Conference (IQBC). Dr. Wurst has a PhD in Comparative Studies...
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Buddhist environmental ethics for a more-than-human world
A conversation with Colin Simonds, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on how Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice are relevant to contemporary issues facing the more-than-human world. His doctoral thesis, titled "Moral Phenomenology…
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Buddhist environmentalism through philosophy of language
A conversation with Nan Kathy Lin, visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College in religious ethics and critical thought. Her work focuses on East Asian Buddhism, environmentalism, and moral philosophy as informed by ordinary language philosophy. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part...
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Rescaling the human: Nature, culture, and science in the Gobi Desert
A conversation with Matt King, professor of Buddhist studies at the University of California, Riverside. King is also the director of Asian studies and co-director of the medical humanities program at UCR. His research traces encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism and state...
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Earth, water, fire, wind, space: Contemplative ecology in Buddhism
A conversation with Devin Zuckerman, a Buddhist studies scholar from the University of Virginia whose research looks at Buddhist theories and practices involving the elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on...
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Living mountains and mineral intimacies in Mongolia
A conversation with Jessica Madison Pískatá, a cultural anthropologist who studies relationships between humans and geological landscapes on the peripheries of Cold War empires. Pískatá is now Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College. In this...
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A Clinical Bioethicist on End-of-Life Decision-Making
Dr. Sean Hillman discusses caregiving work and his research on end-of-life care in India through the lenses of religious studies, bioethics and the law. He talks about how religious views affect end-of-life decision-making of patients, families and health care professionals; issues around…
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The Paisley Gate: Intersections of Buddhism & Psychedelics
As psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies march towards likely legality for therapeutic purposes, we may ask how Buddhism and psychedelics intersect. In this episode, Kerry Helston explores some challenges and opportunities as well as the existing legacy of Buddhism and psychedelics in the West…
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ReOrienting Medicine on the Silk Roads
A conversation with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on her ground-breaking 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Ronit's research on Eurasian medical history illuminates cross-cultural interactions and transmissions of knowledge, drawing on medieval manuscripts from...
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How Buddhism Shapes Medical Care
A conversation with Pierce Salguero on his 2022 book, A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine. Pierce explains what it means to talk about "Buddhist medicine", how medical texts and healing practices interact, and how Buddhism and its healing practices change over time and across geographic...
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Becoming a Buddhist Spiritual Care Provider
A conversation about Buddhist spiritual care work with Joanne Yuasa, a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist minister who is also in training to be a military chaplain. Joanne talks about how she came to Buddhism as an adult, and about her experiences with social anxiety disorder. Karl, Wini, and Joanne share...
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Using Mantras for Healing in Tibetan Medicine
Thinley Gyatso discusses the use of mantras in Tibetan medical practice. He describes early medical texts that address how mantras are used as healing tools, and reports on conversations with Tibetan medical doctors who use mantra recitation in their medical practice. Thinley describes how mantra...
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Exploring the Healing Powers of Demonic Forces
Jonathan Morgan examines the role of the demonic in Buddhism, with a focus on Tibetan perspectives. He looks into how animistic traditions, such as Tibetan Bon, co-exist with Buddhism, and he asks: are demons inherently evil in the way that some Euro-North American cultures understand them, or…
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A Buddhist Chaplain on Palliative Care
An interview by Uvina Persaud with Buddhist minister Joanne Yuasa about her student practicum work in a hospital palliative care unit, and about how her own sensibilities about death and dying have changed through this training. Uvina Persaud is a recent graduate of the University of Toronto. The...
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Inner Pharmacy: A Path to Healing
An interview by Sumeet Kumar with Buddhist monk Adesh on the role of mindfulness in healing. Bhante Adesh shares insights on the role of a monk in Buddhist spiritual care, on the differences between healing practices in Buddhism and biomedicine, and on his work with people experiencing advanced...
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Footnotes on "Sex and Sexuality in Buddhism: A Tetralemma"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, "Sex and Sexuality in Buddhism: A Tetralemma.", by Amy Langenberg, published in 2015 in Religion Compass, 9: 277– 286. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The show’s music is “Like…
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Footnotes for “Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for chapters 4 and 6 from the book, Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics by Susanne Mrozik, published in 2010 by Oxford University Press. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse...
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Footnotes on "Circumambulatory Reading: Revolving Sutra Libraries and Buddhist Scrolls"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, "Circumambulatory Reading: Revolving Sutra Libraries and Buddhist Scrolls" by Charlotte Eubanks, published in 2010 in Book History 13, 1-24. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The...
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Footnotes for "Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation"
A Footnotes reading guide by Frances Garrett for two chapters from Joseph Cheah's book, Race and Religion in American Buddhism: White Supremacy and Immigrant Adaptation (Oxford University Press, 2011), namely, the “Introduction” and Chapter 3, “Adaptation of Vipassana Meditation by Convert...
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Footnotes on "Contemporary Buddhist Chanting and Music"
A reading guide by Tony Scott for the article, "Contemporary Buddhist Chanting and Music" by P. Greene, published in 2017 in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, Oxford University Press. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Tony Scott, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The…
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Footnotes on "Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for a chapter by Sharon Suh called "Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection" from the book, "Flashpoints for Asian American Studies", edited by Cathy Schlund-Vials, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, and published in 2017 by Fordham University...
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Footnotes Interview with Dr Tanatchaporn Kittikong on "Choreographing the site of impermanence"
An interview by Tony Scott with Dr Tanatchaporn Kittikong on her 2015 article, "Choreographing the site of impermanence: Performing body with Buddhist philosophy and meditation in movement-based performance" in Dance Movement & Spiritualities 2(1):57-72. This episode of Footnotes was produced by...
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Footnotes for "Participatory Filmmaking Among Contemporary Shugendō Practitioners"
A reading guide by Tony Scott for the 2013 article, "Participatory Filmmaking Among Contemporary Shugendō Practitioners: Representing an Esoteric Tradition in an Accessible Documentary Film" by M. P. McGuire, published in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 20(4), 325–339....
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Footnotes on "‘No mind’: A Zen Buddhist perspective on embodied consciousness"
A reading guide by Tony Scott for the article, "‘No mind’: A Zen Buddhist perspective on embodied consciousness" by Aska Sakuta, published in Dance, Movement & Spiritualities, Volume 5, Number 1, 1 July 2018, pp. 119-136(18). This episode of Footnotes was produced by Tony Scott with sound editing...
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Footnotes for “The Body of the Buddha"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, “The Body of the Buddha" by John Powers, published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The Footnotes series is created at the University…
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Footnotes on "Critical Disability Theory"
A reading guide by Tony Scott for the article, "Critical Disability Theory", by Hall, Melinda C., in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2019/entries/disability-critical/. This episode of Footnotes was...
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Footnotes on "Reciting, Chanting, and Singing: The Codification of Music in Buddhist Canon Law"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, “Reciting, Chanting, and Singing: The Codification of Music in Buddhist Canon Law", by Cuilan Liu, published in 2018 in the Journal of Indian Philosophy, 46, 4, Pp. 713-752. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound...
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Footnotes Interview with Dr Catherine Hartmann on "To See a Mountain"
An interview by Tony Scott with Dr Catherine Hartmann about her 2020 doctoral dissertation, "To See a Mountain: Writing, Place, and Vision in Tibetan Pilgrimage Literature," Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Tony Scott with sound...
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Footnotes on "Buddhist Walking Meditations and Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia"
A reading guide by Tony Scott for the article, "Buddhist Walking Meditations and Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia" by Boreth Ly, published in 2012 in the journal, positions, 1 February 2012; 20 (1): 267–285, available at...
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Footnotes on "What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, "What Bodies Know About Religion and the Study of It" by K.L. LaMothe, published in 2008 in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 76(3), 573–601. This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse...
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Footnotes on "Decolonizing the Study of Religion"
A reading guide by Frances Garrett for the article, “Decolonizing the Study of Religion”, by Malory Nye, published in 2019 in the Open Library of Humanities 5(1). p.43. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.421 This episode of Footnotes was produced by Frances Garrett, with sound editing by Jesse...
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Michael Sheehy on "Tummo: Fierce Lady of Yogic Heat"
The contemplative technique of tummo (gtum mo, caṇḍālī) – literally, the “fierce lady” – is a consummate practice of Vajrayāna Tibetan Buddhist yoga. To understand this somatic yoga and breathwork practice, this presentation discusses (a) tummo in the context of a Buddhist tantric practice...
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Creating Safe(r) Spaces for Mindfulness of Breath: Non-White Western Practitioners’ Experiences of Race, Racism and Whiteness in American Mindfulness
In Vipassana meditation practice, the first common object is the breath. By allowing the breath to be the focus of your awareness, one lets the social world full of discursive thought, self-reflexivity and judgement move into the background. Yet, we know that as intimate and solitary as this…
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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 understood to lead to various forms of ‘mental illness’ through incorrect Tantric practice and other...
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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 confluence for Tibetan Tantra and Tibetan medicine, and may be suggestive too for modern Western...
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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 bring us? What changes when we direct breath to different parts of the body, or different parts of...
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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 Buddhism. In this video we will look at how people in the country of Myanmar practice breath...
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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 blockages in breath relate to other kinds of obscuration and stagnation in the post-socialist...
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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 practices in the tradition have been used historically and in contemporary times. This presentation is...
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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 community of relatives, friends, students, and patients in the New York City area. Breathing is...
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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 the presentation is a first-hand account of what the experience of jhāna through the breath…
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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 Kingdom of Southeast Asia, he discusses how wind is managed in “Reusi Dat Ton” from breathing...
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Footnotes is a series of short lectures or conversations on research in the field of Buddhist Studies. Created by Frances Garrett, a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, with co-host Tony Scott, most episodes are summaries or discussions of articles or book chapters from academic work in the field, with some episodes featuring guest lectures or guest hosts from events and courses at the University of Toronto. We aim to make Buddhist Studies research freely accessible to students and the public.Footnotes was made possible by a grant from eCampusOntario and also receives support from the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto. Audio editing has been done by Jesse Whitty and Frances Garrett.
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