A reading guide by Frances Garrett for a chapter by Tamara Ditrich, “Mindfulness of Breathing in Early Buddhism” in Atmospheres of Breathing, edited by Lenart Škof and Petri Berndtson. SUNY Press, 2018. This episode of Footnotes was a lecture produced by Frances Garrett for a 2019 University of Toronto undergraduate course called Biohacking Breath.
This conversation will consider Seng Kan Cheung, a contemporary Chinese American religious healer who uses qigong, reiki, and Buddhist spells. He shares these practices...
A summary preview of two chapters, Laurie Cassidy's “The Tranquil Meditator” and Carol J. Moeller's “’bell hooks Made Me a Buddhist’: Liberatory Cross-Cultural Learning—Or...
The contemplative technique of tummo (gtum mo, caṇḍālī) – literally, the “fierce lady” – is a consummate practice of Vajrayāna Tibetan Buddhist yoga. To...