Bright On Buddhism

Bright on Buddhism - Episode 136 - What is Gelug Buddhism? What are some of its similarities and differences to other schools of Buddhism? What is its historical significance?
Resources: Schaik, Sam van. Tibet: A History. Yale University Press 2011
Powers, John (2007) Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, p. 467. Snow Lion Publications.
Jinpa, Thupten (2019). Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1-61180-646-5.
Wallace, Vesna A. (2015). Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-995866-5.
Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, NM. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
Arnold, Edward A. (2021). Tsongkhapa’s Coordination of Sūtra and Tantra: Ascetic Performance, Narrative, and Philosophy in the Creation of the Tibetan Buddhist Self, Doctoral Thesis, Columbia University.
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Bright on Buddhism - Episode 135 - What is Hawaiian Buddhism? What is its history? How does it interact with the tensions surrounding Hawaii's statehood?
Resources: https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-hawaii-big-island/
https://savingplaces.org/stories/japanese-buddhist-temples-in-hawaii-preserve-their-history-by-embracing-change
https://byodo-in.com/
https://hongwanjihawaii.com/jodo-shinshu-buddhism/
https://www.multiculturalcooperation.net/content/the-role-of-identity-in-the-rise-and-decline-of-buddhism-in-hawaii-the-50th-state-of-the-united-states-of-america
Kimura, Yukiko (1992). Issei : Japanese immigrants in Hawaii (Pbk. ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824814819. OCLC 37566798.
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Bright on Buddhism - Kōans with Dox
Join us as we discuss 3 major kōans in Zen Buddhism - “Ordinary Mind is the Way,” “Not the wind, not the flag,” and “a non-Buddhist questions the Buddha.”
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Bright on Buddhism - Episode 134 - Revisit - What are the fundamental beliefs of Buddhism? Does Buddhism have an afterlife? Does Buddhism have a bible like Christianity?
Resources:
Kevin Trainor: Buddhism: An Illustrated Guide
Donald Lopez: Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism
Chan Master Sheng Yen: Orthodox Chinese Buddhism
Nagarjuna: Verses of The Middle Way (The Madhyamakarika)
Conze, Edward, trans. The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary. Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973.
Lopez, Donald S., Jr. Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Stearns, Cyrus. The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999.
Streng, Frederick. Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1967.
Robert E Buswell: Encyclopedia of Buddhism: Death, Mark L. Blum. Nirvana, Luis O. Gómez. Samsara, Bryan J. Cuevas
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Bright on Buddhism - Research Project Series - Yōkai
Resources: Foster, Michael Dylan (2009). Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25361-2.
Hirota, Ryūhei (2021). "Traversing the Natural, Supernatural, and Paranormal: Yōkai in Postwar Japan". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 48 (2, Religion and Identity in Japan since 1940): 321–340. doi:10.18874/jjrs.48.2.2021.321-339. JSTOR 27039930. S2CID 237709697.
Komatsu, Kazuhiko [in Japanese] (2011). Yōkaigaku no kiso chishiki 妖怪学の基礎知識 (in Japanese). Kadokawa gakugei shuppan. ISBN 978-4-04-703487-7.
Komatsu, Kazuhiko [in Japanese] (2015). Yōkaigaku shinkō: Yōkai kara miru nihonjin no kokoro 妖怪学新考 妖怪からみる日本人の心 (in Japanese). Kodansha. ISBN 978-4-06-292307-1.
Miyata, Noboru [in Japanese] (2002). 妖怪の民俗学 (in Japanese). Chikuma shobo. ISBN 4-480-08699-4.
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