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Buddhist Studies Footnotes

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,...more

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Buddhist environmental ethics for a more-than-human world

August 13, 2024

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...

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00:48:33

Buddhist environmentalism through philosophy of language

April 29, 2024

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...

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00:27:48

Rescaling the human: Nature, culture, and science in the Gobi Desert

April 24, 2024

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...

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00:49:34

Earth, water, fire, wind, space: Contemplative ecology in Buddhism

April 22, 2024

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...

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00:31:23

Living mountains and mineral intimacies in Mongolia

April 17, 2024

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....

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00:37:31

A Clinical Bioethicist on End-of-Life Decision-Making

June 23, 2022

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....

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