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Buddhist Studies Footnotes

Frances Garrett

Footnotes is a series of short lectures or conversations on research in the field of Buddhist Studies. Created by Frances Garrett, a professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, with occasional guest hosts, some episodes are summaries or discussions of articles or book chapters from academic work in the field, and some episodes feature interviews and guest hosts related to events and courses at the University of Toronto. We aim to make Buddhist Studies research freely accessible to

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01:19:57

Creating Safer Spaces for Queer and Trans Buddhists

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2026/01/07

A conversation between Kody Muncaster and two representatives from the international Rainbodhi LGBTQIA+ Buddhist Community: Tenzin Tseme from Rainbodhi USA and Myra Blankenship from Rainbodhi Melbourne/Naarm. Rainbodhi is a network for LGBTQIA+ Buddhists to come together in community, sharing dharma and spiritual friendship. Rainbodhi has chapters all over the world. This episode explores Rainbodhi’s work, as well as the challenges faced by trans folks in

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01:16:58

Living a Queer Buddhist Life, with Jampa Wurst

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2025/11/14

A conversation between Kody Muncaster and Jampa Wurst, as part of a series of interviews with queer folks in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies. Dr. Jampa Wurst is a queer, non-binary Buddhist and founder of the International Queer Buddhist Conference (IQBC). Dr. Wurst has a PhD in Comparative Studies in Religion from the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, completing a dissertation on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns and the Sakyadhita Network, an English translation

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01:16:58

Living a Queer Buddhist Life, with Jampa Wurst

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2025/11/14

A conversation between Kody Muncaster and Jampa Wurst, as part of a series of interviews with queer folks in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies. Dr. Jampa Wurst is a queer, non-binary Buddhist and founder of the International Queer Buddhist Conference (IQBC). Dr. Wurst has a PhD in Comparative Studies in Religion from the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, completing a dissertation on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns and the Sakyadhita Network, an English translation

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00:48:33

Buddhist environmental ethics for a more-than-human...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/08/13

A conversation with Colin Simonds, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on how Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice are relevant to contemporary issues facing the more-than-human world. His doctoral thesis, titled "Moral Phenomenology in a More-Than-Human World: A New Approach to Buddhist Environmental Ethics," offers an interpretation of Buddhist ethics as a moral phenomenology and proposes a

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00:48:33

Buddhist environmental ethics for a more-than-human...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/08/13

A conversation with Colin Simonds, Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on how Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and contemplative practice are relevant to contemporary issues facing the more-than-human world. His doctoral thesis, titled "Moral Phenomenology in a More-Than-Human World: A New Approach to Buddhist Environmental Ethics," offers an interpretation of Buddhist ethics as a moral phenomenology and proposes a phenomenological approach to animal and

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00:27:48

Buddhist environmentalism through philosophy of language

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/29

A conversation with Nan Kathy Lin, visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College in religious ethics and critical thought. Her work focuses on East Asian Buddhism, environmentalism, and moral philosophy as informed by ordinary language philosophy.In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Nan Kathy Lin talks about her work on developing a theory of religious change as seen through Buddhist environmentalism, drawing on

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00:27:48

Buddhist environmentalism through philosophy of language

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/29

A conversation with Nan Kathy Lin, visiting assistant professor at Oberlin College in religious ethics and critical thought. Her work focuses on East Asian Buddhism, environmentalism, and moral philosophy as informed by ordinary language philosophy. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Nan Kathy Lin talks about her work on developing a theory of religious change as seen through Buddhist

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00:49:34

Rescaling the human: Nature, culture, and science in...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/24

A conversation with Matt King, professor of Buddhist studies at the University of California, Riverside. King is also the director of Asian studies and co-director of the medical humanities program at UCR. His research traces encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism and state socialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Matt King talks

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00:49:34

Rescaling the human: Nature, culture, and science in...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/24

A conversation with Matt King, professor of Buddhist studies at the University of California, Riverside. King is also the director of Asian studies and co-director of the medical humanities program at UCR. His research traces encounters between Buddhist scholasticism, science, humanism and state socialism in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Matt King talks about his new

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00:31:23

Earth, water, fire, wind, space: Contemplative...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/22

A conversation with Devin Zuckerman, a Buddhist studies scholar from the University of Virginia whose research looks at Buddhist theories and practices involving the elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Devin Zuckerman talks about how the elements are used to map human difference, and how they function as an “information technology” that connects

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00:31:23

Earth, water, fire, wind, space: Contemplative...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/22

A conversation with Devin Zuckerman, a Buddhist studies scholar from the University of Virginia whose research looks at Buddhist theories and practices involving the elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Devin Zuckerman talks about how the elements are used to map human difference, and how they function as an “information technology” that connects human

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00:37:31

Living mountains and mineral intimacies in Mongolia

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/17

A conversation with Jessica Madison Pískatá, a cultural anthropologist who studies relationships between humans and geological landscapes on the peripheries of Cold War empires. Pískatá is now Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College. In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Pískatá talks about how her interest in anthropology was sparked by the

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00:37:31

Living mountains and mineral intimacies in Mongolia

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2024/04/17

A conversation with Jessica Madison Pískatá, a cultural anthropologist who studies relationships between humans and geological landscapes on the peripheries of Cold War empires. Pískatá is now Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Oberlin College.In this conversation with Frances Garrett, part of a Footnotes series on posthumanist approaches to the study of Buddhism, Pískatá talks about how her interest in anthropology

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00:51:55

A Clinical Bioethicist on End-of-Life Decision-Making

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/06/23

Dr. Sean Hillman discusses caregiving work and his research on end-of-life care in India through the lenses of religious studies, bioethics and the law. He talks about how religious views affect end-of-life decision-making of patients, families and health care professionals; issues around blocking disclosure of bad news in sharing of sensitive medical information; ritual fasting and immobilization at the end of life; and attitudes towards end-of-life care, including pain management, hospice

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00:51:55

A Clinical Bioethicist on End-of-Life Decision-Making

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/06/23

Dr. Sean Hillman discusses caregiving work and his research on end-of-life care in India through the lenses of religious studies, bioethics and the law. He talks about how religious views affect end-of-life decision-making of patients, families and health care professionals; issues around blocking disclosure of bad news in sharing of sensitive medical information; ritual fasting and immobilization at the end of life; and attitudes towards end-of-life care, including pain

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00:35:04

The Paisley Gate: Intersections of Buddhism &...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/06/14

As psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies march towards likely legality for therapeutic purposes, we may ask how Buddhism and psychedelics intersect. In this episode, Kerry Helston explores some challenges and opportunities as well as the existing legacy of Buddhism and psychedelics in the West, with reference to current science and academic literature as well as personal experiences. Resources mentioned: Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America by

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00:35:04

The Paisley Gate: Intersections of Buddhism &...

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/06/14

As psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies march towards likely legality for therapeutic purposes, we may ask how Buddhism and psychedelics intersect. In this episode, Kerry Helston explores some challenges and opportunities as well as the existing legacy of Buddhism and psychedelics in the West, with reference to current science and academic literature as well as personal experiences.Resources mentioned: Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America by Douglas Osto LSD and the Mind

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00:38:28

ReOrienting Medicine on the Silk Roads

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/06/02

A conversation with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on her ground-breaking 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Ronit's research on Eurasian medical history illuminates cross-cultural interactions andtransmissions of knowledge, drawing on medieval manuscripts from Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz. See more about this book at https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781472512574/ . The Footnotes series is produced at the University of

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00:38:28

ReOrienting Medicine on the Silk Roads

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/06/02

A conversation with Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim on her ground-breaking 2021 book, ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads. Ronit's research on Eurasian medical history illuminates cross-cultural interactions and transmissions of knowledge, drawing on medieval manuscripts from Dunhuang, Kucha, the Cairo Genizah and Tabriz. See more about this book at https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781472512574/ . The Footnotes series is produced

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00:41:03

How Buddhism Shapes Medical Care

Buddhist Studies Footnotes ·

2022/05/23

A conversation with Pierce Salguero on his 2022 book, A Global History of Buddhism and Medicine. Pierce explains what it means to talk about "Buddhist medicine", how medical texts and healing practices interact, and how Buddhism and its healing practices change over time and across geographic regions. He emphasizes how the deep importance of Buddhism has been neglected in our understanding of medical practices globally, and stresses the value of transdisciplinary collaboration and conversation. See

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