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 https://read.dukeupress.edu/positions/article/20/1/267/21605/Buddhist-Walking-Meditations-and-Contemporary-Art. This episode of Footnotes was created by Tony Scott, with sound editing by Jesse Whitty. The show’s music is “The Academic (Life & Afterlife)” by Nic Bommarito and “Monday Morning Wake Up Call” by Daniel Birch.
The Footnotes series is created at the University of Toronto, in Canada, with support from eCampus Ontario. Created by Frances Garrett, a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, Footnotes is a series of short lectures or readings on research in the field. Each episode features an article or book chapter from an academic book in Buddhist Studies. We aim to make topics in Buddhist Studies research freely accessible to students and the public.
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