New Podcast Episode! Allan Ding: Chan Ritual and the Zhāi Feast

Miles Osgood talks to Allan Ding about why the Chan monk Moheyan lost the 8th-century "Samyé Debate" over the future of Tibetan Buddhism, how medieval Chinese Buddhists shifted from "antiritualism" to accepting the "zhāi" feast, and what forms of religious imagination scholars can adopt from liturgical practices.
 

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