Rev. Danny Fisher

Believe it or not, months after the initial announcement, it’s finally here: my podcast series on Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction by Richard H. Robinson, Willard L. Johnson, and Thanissaro Bhikkhu!

Tuesday Wednesday is the day that we will focus on Buddhist Studies — the academic investigation of Buddhist religions — at this blog, and it will likely take the form of this very podcast that I teased in a video post from several months ago. (If you missed that video, please take a look back. It will serve as a good introduction to the work we will be doing on Tuesdays Wednesdays for the foreseeable future.)

Episode one is, at long last, ready for you. Just press play…

You can purchase a copy of the textbook (if you’d like to read along) here. In addition, you can subscribe directly to the podcast here. You can also subscribe to it on iTunes by using this link or just by searching the podcasts in the iTunes Store for “Rev. Danny Fisher”. I’ll be cross-posting these podcasts at elephantjournal.com as well.

Finally, as I promise in the podcast, each Tuesday Wednesday installment will come with a bibliography/additional reading list (and, again, they’re arranged in order of their mention/use in the podcast)…

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction, 5th edition, by Richard H. Robinson, Willard L. Johnson, and Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Wadsworth Publishing, 2004).
• The Experience of Buddhism: Sources and Interpretations, 3rd Edition, by John Strong (Wadsworth Publishing, 2007).
• Buddhism: A Modern Perspective edited by Charles Prebish (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971).
• Buddhist Spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, Early Chinese edited by Takeuchi Yoshinori (The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1995).
• Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan, and the Modern World edited by Takeuchi Yoshinori (The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1999).
• Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience by Donald W. Mitchell (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• A Dictionary of Buddhism by Damien Keown (Oxford University Press, 2008).
• Encyclopedia of Buddhism edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. (MacMillan Reference/Thompson Gale, 2004).
• Once upon a Future Time: Studies in a Buddhist Prophecy of Decline by Jan Nattier (Asian Humanities Press, 1990).
• A Few Good Men: The Bodhisattva Path According to the Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha) by Jan Nattier (University of Hawaii Press, 2005).
• Introduction to the History of Indian Buddhism by Eugene Burnouf (translated by Katia Buffetrille and Donald S. Lopez, Jr.) (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
• “A Conversation with the Dalai Lama” by Melissa Mathison for Rolling Stone.
• Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes Towards Religious Others by Kristin Beise Kiblinger (Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005).
• “Book Review: Buddhist Inclusivism: Attitudes Towards Religious Others by Kristin Beise Kiblinger” by Danny Fisher for The Journal of Buddhist Ethics, vol. 16, 2009.