Latest Episodes
November 22, 2021
Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko on "Windhorse, Smog, and the Stagnation of Vital Energies"
This presentation will describe how urban Mongolians navigate the capital city Ulaanbaatar’s chronic air pollution in relation to breath, clarity, bodily winds and purification....
00:19:54
November 15, 2021
Nathan Michon on "Breath Energy and Healing in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism"
This presentation briefly introduces the Japanese Vajrayana tradition of Shingon Buddhism and a few of its fundamental breathing techniques. It then summarizes some of...
00:27:48
November 08, 2021
Kin Cheung on "Blurry Boundaries Between Breath/Qi/Ki and Buddhism"
This conversation will consider Seng Kan Cheung, a contemporary Chinese American religious healer who uses qigong, reiki, and Buddhist spells. He shares these practices...
00:22:41
November 01, 2021
David Collins on "Experiencing the Theravādin Buddhist Jhāna Absorptions through the Breath"
In this presentation, the place of the Old School Buddhist form jhāna absorptions within Theravādin meditation practice is outlined, with a note on the...
00:29:37
October 25, 2021
David Wells on "Winds in Traditional Thai Yoga"
David Wells introduces Thai Yoga, “Reusi Dat Ton,” and its place within the traditions of Buddhist Yoga and Mahasiddhas. Tracing its development from India...
00:29:32
October 18, 2021
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on "Winds in Transit: Experiencing Breath in Translation"
Heinrich Jäschke, a nineteenth-century Moravian missionary to Ladakh, is mostly known amongst scholars of Tibet for his pioneering 1881 Tibetan–English Dictionary. In his entry...
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