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Teaching Buddhist Studies

  • Race and Anti-Racist Teaching
    • Teaching Race and Racism in Buddhist Studies
    • A conversation with Dr. Natalie Avalos on teaching Buddhism, race, and racism
    • A conversation with Dr. Sarah Jacoby on teaching Buddhism, race, and racism
    • A conversation with Dr. Jeff Wilson on teaching Buddhism, race, and racism
    • A conversation with Dr. Amy Paris Langenberg on teaching Buddhism, race, and racism
    • A conversation with Dr. Scott Mitchell on teaching Buddhism, race, and racism
    • Selected syllabi that incorporate race and racism in Buddhist studies courses
  • Podcast
    • Episode 21 – Kate Hartmann, Online Teaching Beyond the Pandemic
    • Episode 20 – José Cabezón: Teaching Tibetan Buddhism as Professor and Practitioner
    • Episode 19 – Jan Willis: Stories from a Black, Baptist, and Buddhist Teacher
    • Episode 18 – Todd Lewis: Social Context and the Power of Imagination
    • Episode 17 – Susie Andrews: Building Others Up
    • Episode 16 – Janet Gytso, Teaching Posthumanism and Animal Ethics in Buddhist Studies
    • Episode 15 – Marcus Evans, Teaching Hip Hop and Buddhist Studies
    • Episode 14 – Rima Vesely-Flad, Learning about Black Buddhist Dharma Teachers and Healing Justice
    • Episode 13 – Embodied Learning on Interdependence
    • Episode 12 – Teaching a Zen Buddhism Course Online with Student Preferences in Mind with Daigengna Duoer
    • Episode 11 – Teaching Asian Art as Storytelling with Kerry Brown
    • Episode 10 – Constructing Buddhist Theories of the Body from Ancient Texts with Luther Obrock
    • Episode 09 – Living Religion in the Classroom: Teaching Chinese Buddhism with Rongdao Lai
    • Episode 08 – Teaching Empathy and Collaboration with Frances Garrett
    • Episode 07 – Embodied Experience: Living from the Heart, with Ellen Katz
    • Episode 6 – Buddhism and Contemplative Science, with Norman Farb
    • Episode 5 – Teaching Buddhist Art Using Museum and Gallery Collections, with Wen-shing Chou
    • Episode 4 – Negotiating the Layers: Material History in our Teaching, with Abishek Amar
    • Episode 3 – Anti-Colonial Teaching and Buddhism, with Natalie Avalos
    • Episode 2 – Engaging Students in the Big Picture, with Matt King
    • Episode 1 – Inhabiting the Stories: Buddhism from the Inside, with Vanessa Sasson
  • Bibliographies
    • Workshop 2020
  • Mentorship
    • How Do You Do It?
    • Step Forward
  • Get in Touch

Selected syllabi that incorporate race and racism in Buddhist studies courses

Avalos, Coloniality Historical Trauma and Decolonial Healing, 2021Download
Brennan, Buddhist Thought and Practice, 2020Download
Brennan, Modern Buddhism, 2021Download
Evans, Great Books in Asian Religions, 2020Download
Jacoby, Buddhism in the Contemporary World, 2018Download
Jivaka Project, Buddhism in the US, Six Week VersionDownload
Kachru, Buddhist Ethics, 2020Download
Langenberg, Engaged Buddhism, 2020Download
Langenberg, Exploring Religion and Race, 2019Download
Langenberg, Religion, Power, and Difference, 2019Download
McLaughlin, The Buddhist Traditions, 2020Download
McRae, Buddhist Social Justice PhilosophyDownload
Mitchell, Critical Race Theory and American Buddhism, 2019Download
Ritzinger, Activist Bodhisattvas, 2018Download
Rowe, Mindfulness, Sustainability and Social Change, 2021Download
Vesely-Flad, Buddhism, Race, and Sexuality, 2020Download
Williams, Re-Viewing Religion in Asian America, 2020Download
Willis, Making the Invisible, Visible: A Multi-Media Exploration of Race and Racism through a Buddhist Lens, 2019Download
Wilson, Buddhism in Hawai’i: Local Practices and Global Contexts, 2018Download
Wilson, Directed Readings in North American Buddhism, 2018Download
Wilson, Engaged Buddhism, 2021Download

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