The HCBSS Podcast features faculty, graduate students, visiting speakers, and alumni in conversation with Miles Osgood and Leah Chase on the history, philosophy, and practice of Buddhism.
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Rafal Felbur talks about the surviving Chinese and Tibetan versions of the Sūrata-sūtra, their depictions of a charismatic preacher bringing Buddhism to new frontiers, and what forgotten Mahāyāna scriptures like these reveal about the relation between monastics and monarchs. Interview by Miles Osgood. Part 2 of 2.
Rafal Felbur talks about Chinese and Tibetan texts that preserve Indic sources lost in Sanskrit, the early Chinese exegetes who imposed a restrictive orthodoxy even while compiling their inclusive Buddhist canon, and the digital tools that can help us triangulate the content of original scriptures from these enduring translations. Interview by Miles Osgood. Part 1 of 2.
Oriane Lavolé talks about the history of treasure revealers (tertöns) from 11th-century Tibet to contemporary Nepal, how apologists for the treasure tradition (terma) have responded to skeptics who dismiss its material foundations, and what site guides to sacred territories can teach Western Buddhists about the ecological roots of the religion. Interview by Miles Osgood.