Buddhism Links: Kenyon College

Buddhist Links

Asian Studies Program

Joseph Adler

This is an extensive list of links updated as of June 2017

These are the categories:

General

Traditions

Texts 

South Asia

News

Ethics and Dialogs

Buddhism and Arts

Centers and Temples

http://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln260/links260.htm

Genius of the Ancient World: 1 - Buddha

A BBC production, this video is Part 1 of a series about figures in the ancient world, this video concentrates on the Buddha.

From the website: "Historian Bettany Hughes travels to India, Greece and China on the trail of three giants of ancient philosophy - Buddha, Socrates and Confucius"

Produced in 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77bzAGeVrq8

Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro - a book

"Sarah H. Jacoby's analysis focuses on the status of the female body in Sera Khandro's texts, the virtue of celibacy versus the expediency of sexuality for religious purposes, and the difference between profane lust and sacred love between male and female tantric partners. Her findings add new dimensions to our understanding of Tibetan Buddhist consort practices, complicating standard scriptural presentations of male subject and female aide. Sera Khandro depicts herself and Drimé Özer as inseparable embodiments of insight and method that together form the Vajrayana Buddhist vision of complete buddhahood. By advancing this complementary sacred partnership, Sera Khandro carved a place for herself as a female virtuoso in the male-dominated sphere of early twentieth-century Tibetan religion."

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-and-liberation/9780231147682

The Yogin and the Madman: a book

"The Yogin and the Madman:  Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet’s Great Saint Milarepa (Columbia University Press 2014, South Asia Across the Disciplines Series) is the first extended literary history of the biographical tradition surrounding Tibet’s most famous Buddhist saint, the eleventh-century hermit and poet Milarepa. The book likewise presents the first analysis of an entire Himalayan textual tradition by tracing its historical formation, changing narrative voices, eventual canonical status, and enduring legacy across the region."

http://www.andrewquintman.com/the-yogin-and-the-madman/

Alan Watts - Here and Now: a book

"Alan Watts—Here and Now explores the intellectual legacy and continuing relevance of a prolific writer and speaker who was a major influence on American culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. A thinker attuned to the spiritual malaise affecting the Western mind, Watts (1915–1973) provided intellectual and spiritual alternatives that helped shape the Beat culture of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s. "


http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5381-alan-wattshere-and-now.aspx