Latest Episodes
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...