The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford
The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford podcast features faculty, graduate students, visiting speakers, and alumni in conversation with Communications Manager Miles Osgood on the history, philosophy, and practice of Buddhism. Interviews are intended to be both academic and accessible: topics range from scholarly publications and insights to personal journeys and reflections. Interview videos are posted on YouTube, @thehocenterforbuddhiststudies. For more information about our events, speakers, and research, visit buddhiststudies.stanford.edu.
Stephen Bokenkamp: Daoism and Buddhism in China
Miles Osgood talks to Professor Stephen Bokenkamp about his fieldwork in China after the Cultural Revolution, how to better understand the original encounter between Daoism and Buddhism in the 2nd to 6th centuries C.E., and what Daoist and Buddhist Studies can learn from one another today.
Stephen R. Bokenkamp (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1986) specializes in the study of medieval Chinese Daoism, with a special emphasis on its literatures and its relations with Buddhism. He is author of Early Daoist Scriptures，Ancestors and Anxiety，A Fourth-century Daoist Family: the Zhen’gao, as well as over forty ar...
Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā: Integrating Academic and Monastic Lives
Miles Osgood talks to Ven. Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā about the journey of her research in relation to the historical transmission of Buddhist texts, the process of integrating her two lives as an academic and monastic, and the relevance of Buddhism’s “two truths” doctrine in the present day.
Born in Italy in 1980, Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā went forth as a monastic in the Theravāda Buddhist tradition of Sri Lanka in 2012. She studied Indology, Indo-Iranian philology, and Tibetology at the University of Naples "L’Orientale," at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University in Tokyo, and at the Institute...
