H.H. Karmapa: Vegetarianism, Online Education and Nuns’ Ordination
For our debut episode, Daniel travels to Dharamsala, India, to interview His Holiness the Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje. His Holiness talks about the efficacy of listening to Dharma classes, receiving...
View ArticleElijah Ary: The First Western Geluk Tulku
Elijah Ary was the first Westerner to be recognized as the tulku (reincarnation) of a Tibetan lama in the Geluk tradition. In this episode, Elijah discusses the process of his being recognized as a...
View ArticleBhikkhu Bodhi: Translating the Buddha
One of Wisdom’s most renowned authors, translator Bhikkhu Bodhi, recently visited the Wisdom office. In this episode, he tells his own story, painting a picture of what it was like in the days of...
View ArticleDavid Loy: Modern Buddhism
Join us for an intimate and wide-ranging discussion with David Loy, Zen teacher and Wisdom author. David tells us how he was introduced to Buddhism, sharing stories from key points in his life and his...
View ArticleJamyang Rinchen 1: Translating for the Dalai Lama
Jamyang Rinchen (蔣揚仁欽) moved away from his family in Taiwan at a very young age to become a monk and study at the Dalai Lama’s Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala. In this first episode of...
View ArticleJamyang Rinchen 2: My Guru, the Dalai Lama
Jamyang Rinchen (蔣揚仁欽) travels in the Dalai Lama’s entourage as his principle Chinese translator. In this episode he tells us what His Holiness is like when out of the public eye and shares some...
View ArticleVen. Thubten Chodron: An American Buddhist Abbess
Thubten Chodron is the abbess of Sravasti Abbey in Newport, Washington, where a group of ordained Tibetan Buddhists live and train together. Wisdom’s Associate Publisher Daniel met with Venerable...
View ArticleJeffrey Hopkins: The Life of a Buddhist Scholar
Jeffrey Hopkins was translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama from 1979 to 1989 and Professor of Tibetan Studies at University of Virginia, and has published more than forty books. Jeffrey started...
View ArticleDeborah Schoeberlein David: The Meaning of Living Mindfully
In this new episode of the Wisdom Podcast, our host and associate publisher Daniel Aitken interviews mindfulness author Deborah Schoeberlein David. They begin by discussing how her new book Living...
View ArticleStephen Batchelor: After Buddhism
This Wisdom Podcast episode features Stephen Batchelor, renowned Buddhist author, teacher, and proponent of secular Buddhism. Batchelor tells us of his coming of age in the 1960s...
View ArticleElsie Walker: The Dalai Lama and the Presidents Bush
In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast we hear a story of Buddhism and American politics: how Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush met the Dalai Lama, as told by President Bush Sr.’s cousin...
View ArticleRobert Thurman: A Life in Buddhism
In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, host Daniel Aitken interviews Robert Thurman, renowned scholar of Buddhism and friend of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this rich conversation, we first find out...
View ArticleC.W. Huntington and Francisca Cho: Emptiness and Fiction
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Buddhist thinkers C.W. “Sandy” Huntington and Francisca Cho. Sandy is the author of Maya, a recent novel published by Wisdom. Francisca is an associate...
View ArticlePascal Auclair: Living Buddhism from the Heart
In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, we meet Pascal Auclair, a teacher in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. Pascal starts by telling us how he came to Buddhism when he was traveling in Asia with his...
View ArticleGerry Stribling: Buddhism for Dudes
This week on the Wisdom Podcast we meet Gerry Stribling, the author of Buddhism for Dudes. Gerry shares how he got into Buddhism when he was volunteering Sri Lanka. He first worked at a nonprofit that...
View ArticleBhikkhu Bodhi: The Buddha on Social Harmony
This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features our second interview with renowned Buddhist scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi. Ven. Bodhi tells us about the process of creating his forthcoming book, The Buddha’s...
View ArticleSteve Armstrong: Insight Meditation in America
In this episode we meet Steve Armstrong, a teacher in the vipassana tradition who has studied the dhamma and practiced insight meditation since 1975. Steve is a co-founding teacher of the Vipassana...
View ArticleShaila Catherine: Mastering the Jhanas
In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, we meet Theravada Buddhist teacher Shaila Catherine, author of Wisdom Wide and Deep and Focused and Fearless. Shaila was introduced to transcendental meditation...
View ArticleJoseph Goldstein: Bringing the Dharma from the Masters to the West
In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, we hear stories and teachings from Joseph Goldstein, one of the most well-known Buddhist teachers in the United States. Joseph Goldstein has been teaching...
View ArticleChristina Feldman: Meditation as Cultivation
Christina Feldman is a guiding teacher of the Insight Meditation Society and co-founder of Gaia House in England. She has been teaching insight meditation retreats since 1976 and has recently been...
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