Podcasts about ziporyn

For decades, New Atheism has been characterized by "the humanistic rejection of religion." But Dr. Brook Ziporyn's new book, Experiments in Mystical Atheism, argues instead for "the religious rejection of God." Matthew Peterson speaks to Dr. Ziporyn in order to understand what this means and how it differs from more dominant atheistic writing.

We're reading the "Fathoming Life" chapter of this seminal Daoist philosopher, using the Ziporyn translation: Just the first couple pages to really focus in on some text that came up tangentially in Partially Examined Life ep. 341. Read along with us, starting on PDF p. 188. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we continue exploring the rich spiritual tradition of Buddhism through one of its most profound and important schools - Chan/Zen. We dive into the history and development of the school, as well as its characteristic teachings about meditation, koans, liberation and Buddha-nature.Sources/Suggested Reading: Chuang Zhi (2019). "Exploring Chán: An Introduction to the Religious and Mystical Tradition of Chinese Buddhism". Songlark Publishing. Hershock, Peter D. (2004). "Chan Buddhism". University of Hawaii Press. Red Pine (translated by) (1989). "The Zen Teachings of Bodhidharma". North Point Press. Red Pine (translated by) (2002). "The Diamond Sutra". Counterpoint. Red Pine (translated by) (2008). "The Platform Sutra: The Zen Teaching of Hui-neng". Counterpoint. Westerhoff, Jan (2009). "Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction". Oxford University Press. Ziporyn, Brook (2016). "Emptiness and Omnipresence: An essential introduction to Tiantai Buddhism". Indiana University Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After several unsuccessful attempts at receiving advice from Vast Obscure…   Generalissimo Cloud said, "It is a rare and difficult thing to meet with you, O Heaven! Please give me just one word!"   Vast Obscure said, "Ach! The nourishing of the mind! Just stay in the state of non-doing and all things will transform themselves. Drop your body away, vomit out your precise powers of hearing and vision, sink yourself into the forgetting of things, become vastly merged in fluidity and darkness, unleash your mind and release your spirit until you are left like a still and silent desert, like there is no soul in you. All things throng and flourish, but each returns to its root. Each returns to its root, and yet they do not know it! Mixed and blended, in chaos and confusion—as long as they live they are never separated from it! If they knew it, they would then be separated from it! They do not ask its name, they do not spy out its character: thus do all things generate themselves!"-from Chapter 11: "Being There and Giving Room" in Zhuangzi: The Complete Works (Brook Ziporyn, trans)Support the show

Bright on Buddhism - Evil - What is evil in Buddhism? How does the conception of evil change over time? According to the Buddhist scriptures, what ought to be done about evil? Content warning - This episode contains descriptions of violence and killing. Listener discretion is advised. Resources: Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie, Jessica L. Main, and Melanie Coughlin. “The Self-Awareness of Evil in Pure Land Buddhism: A Translation of Contemporary Kyoto School Philosopher Keta Masako.” Philosophy East and West 67, no. 1 (2017): 192–228. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44135555.; Whitley R. P. Kaufman. “Karma, Rebirth, and the Problem of Evil.” Philosophy East and West 55, no. 1 (2005): 15–32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4487934.; Gregory, Peter N. “The Problem of Theodicy in the ‘Awakening of Faith.'” Religious Studies 22, no. 1 (1986): 63–78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20006258.; Sharma, Ursula. “Theodicy and the Doctrine of Karma.” Man 8, no. 3 (1973): 347–64. https://doi.org/10.2307/2800314.; Gray, David B. “The Rhetoric of Violence in the Buddhist Tantras.” Journal of Religion and Violence 6, no. 1 (2018): 32–51. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26671557.; Silk, Jonathan A. “Good and Evil in Indian Buddhism: The Five Sins of Immediate Retribution.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 35, no. 3 (2007): 253–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23497451.; James W. Boyd. “Symbols of Evil in Buddhism.” The Journal of Asian Studies 31, no. 1 (1971): 63–75. https://doi.org/10.2307/2053052.; Dalton, Jacob P. “Evil and Ignorance in Tantric Buddhism.” In The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism, 23–43. Yale University Press, 2011. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5vkw2s.5.; ZIPORYN, BROOK A. “TIANTAI ETHICS AND THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO.” In Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism, 235–72. Indiana University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bmzm9d.15.; Wakabayashi, Haruko. The Seven Tengu Scrolls: Evil and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. University of Hawai'i Press, 2012. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqm13.; Dobbins, James C. “D. T. Suzuki, Amida Buddha, and the Problem of Karma.” The Eastern Buddhist 1, no. 2 (2021): 89–98. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48711024.; MacIntyre, Alasdair (1984). After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (2nd ed.). Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.; Batchelor, Stephen (2015). After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age. Yale University Press.; Gombrich, Richard. “Buddhist Karma and Social Control.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 17, no. 2 (1975): 212–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/178004.; Kalupahana, David J., and G. P. Malalasekera. “Karma and Rebirth.” In Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis, 44–55. University of Hawai'i Press, 1976. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqjnw.11.; James P. Mc Dermott. “Is There Group Karma in Theravāda Buddhism?” Numen 23, no. 1 (1976): 67–80. https://doi.org/10.2307/3269557. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brightonbuddhism/message

This week, Brook Ziporyn and I discuss the complexities of interpreting the Daodejing, the humor of the book, and its applications to life philosophies, politics, literature, and many other things along the way.

We're finally doing Buddhism! In this episode, we explore the teachings of the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna and his school, known as Madhyamika, or "The Middle Way".Sources/Suggested Reading:Siderits, Mark & Shoryu Katsura (Translated by) (2013). "Nagarjuna's Middle Way: The Mulamadhyamakakarika". Classics of Indian Buddhism. Wisdom Publications.Westerhoff, Jan (2009). "Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka: A Philosophical Introduction". Oxford University Press.Ziporyn, Brook (2016). "Emptiness and Omnipresence: An essential introduction to Tiantai Buddhism". Indiana University Press.#Nagarjuna #Buddhism #Emptiness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, we continue our explorations of Daoism by studying its later developments into organized movements and the fascinating practice of Neidan, or "Internal Alchemy".Sources/Suggested Reading:Graham, A.C. (1999). "Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China". Open Court.Kohn, Livia (1991). "Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist Tradition". Princeton University Press.Kohn, Livia (1993). "The Taoist Experience: An Anthology". State University of New York Press.Komjathy, Louis (2013). "The Daoist Tradition: An Introduction". Bloombury academic.Komjathy, Louis (2016). "Comtemplative Literature: A Comparative Sourcebook on Meditation and Contemplative Prayer". State University of New York Press.Ziporyn, Brook (Translated by) (2020). Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings". Hackett Publishing Company.#Daoism #China #Alchemy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bright on Buddhism Episode 45 - What is Buddha-nature? What are the doctrinal roots of this idea? How meanings of this word change over time? Resources: Kevin Trainor: Buddhism: An Illustrated Guide; Donald Lopez: Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism; Chan Master Sheng Yen: Orthodox Chinese Buddhism; Williams, Paul, Mahayana Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, Routledge, 2008, pp. 195–196.; Buswell, Robert, ed. “Tathagatagarbha.” In Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 1:826–27. New York City, NY: MacMillan Reference USA, 2004.; King, Sallie B. “Buddha Nature and the Concept of Person.” Philosophy East and West 39, no. 2 (1989): 151–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/1399375.; Duckworth, Douglas. “Onto-Theology and Emptiness: The Nature of Buddha-Nature.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 82, no. 4 (2014): 1070–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44945113.; Liu, Ming-Wood. “The Yogācārā and Mādhyamika Interpretations of the Buddha-Nature Concept in Chinese Buddhism.” Philosophy East and West 35, no. 2 (1985): 171–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/1399049.; Kiyota, Minoru. “Tathāgatagarbha Thought: A Basis of Buddhist Devotionalism in East Asia.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 12, no. 2/3 (1985): 207–31. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30233958.; BUSWELL, ROBERT E. “The Tathāgatagarbha.” In The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea: The Vajrasamadhi-Sutra, a Buddhist Apocryphon, 232–39. Princeton University Press, 1989. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1m3nzn6.18.; Grosnick, William H. “The Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra.” In Buddhism in Practice: Abridged Edition, edited by Donald S. Lopez, ABR-Abridged., 92–106. Princeton University Press, 2007. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcm4h64.15.;Cole, Alan. “Sameness with a Difference in the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra.” In Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature, 1st ed., 197–235. University of California Press, 2005.; http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppbbf.9.; ZIPORYN, BROOK A. “BUDDHA-NATURE AND ORIGINAL ENLIGHTENMENT.” In Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism, 54–67. Indiana University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1bmzm9d.9. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by finding us on email or social media! https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

Ziporyn who released his landmark Cantaloupe Music recording; ‘This Is Not a Clarinet' in 2001, does the impossible on Pop Channel, taking us through some of the best iconic pop songs during the last 5 decades, imagined through a compendium of clarinets and all arranged, layered, and performed by Ziporyn. Every sound on this album – the lead vocals, guitar solos, backing horns, and even the drum parts - is played by Ziporyn, on a clarinet of one size or another.Purchase the music (without talk) at:Pop Channel (classicalsavings.com)Your purchase helps to support our show! Classical Music Discoveries is sponsored by La Musica International Chamber Music Festival and Uber. @khedgecock#ClassicalMusicDiscoveries #KeepClassicalMusicAlive#LaMusicaFestival #CMDGrandOperaCompanyofVenice #CMDParisPhilharmonicinOrléans#CMDGermanOperaCompanyofBerlin#CMDGrandOperaCompanyofBarcelonaSpain#ClassicalMusicLivesOn#Uber Please consider supporting our show, thank you!http://www.classicalsavings.com/donate.html staff@classicalmusicdiscoveries.com This album is broadcasted with the permission of Crossover Media Music Promotion (Zachary Swanson).

Not doing, not being a corpse presiding over your good name;Not doing, not being a repository of plans and schemes;Not doing, not being the one in charge of what happens;Not doing, not being ruled by your own understanding.In this way, embody the endlessness and roam where there is no sign, fully living through whatever is received from Heaven without thinking anything has been gained, thus remaining a vacuity, nothing more. The Utmost Person uses the mind like a mirror, rejecting nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing. And thus can overcome all things without harm.-from Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings, Chapter 7 (Brook Ziporyn, trans)Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/apalmr)

>> Prefer to read, download the full episode transcript here For the last few decades, a grass-roots movement across the United States has been raising awareness and campaigning to change the situation in many schools, whereby early bell times are forcing kids to get out of bed extremely early in order to make it through the school gates on time. With bus times scheduled as early as 5 am, as well as causing disruption to family lives, early school start times fail to recognize the vast body of scientific research demonstrating that adolescent sleep needs are fundamentally different to adults and younger children.  In 2011, Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider started a petition to lobby the government to recognise the biological incompatibility between early school times and adolescent sleep needs. This resulted in the founding of Start School Later, which brought together all of the grass-roots activists across the States, to join with researchers and health professionals to further raise awareness and bring about change regarding the relationship between sleep and school hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJboKaGmYcg In this episode we speak to Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider, co-founder and Executive Director of Start School Later about the history and social context of America's early school start times, the science of adolescent sleep, and the California Bill SB328 which is pushing for a mandate to ensure schools are legally obliged to start no earlier than 8.30am. This episode's guest: Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider is an award-winning novelist, playwright, science writer and the co-founder and Executive Director of Start School Later, a coalition of health professionals, sleep scientists, educators, parents, students, and other concerned citizens dedicated to increasing public awareness about the relationship between sleep and school hours and to ensuring school start times compatible with health, safety, education, and equity. A former associate editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), she is the author of many popular health and medical publications including The New Harvard Guide to Women's Health. Terra has a BA in both history and biology from Yale University, where she studied playwriting with Ted Tally, and a PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Chicago. Start School Later website : https://www.startschoollater.net/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terra-ziporyn-b442911/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/terraziporyn More Resources: Sleep in Adolescents: The Perfect Storm (publication by Dr Mary Carskadon) : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3130594/ Interview with Phyllis Payne: http://sleepjunkies.com/start-school-later-interview/ Episode Homepage: http://sleepjunkies.com/start-school-later-movement/ More Episodes: Full Transcript Jeff Mann (JM): Good afternoon, and I'm very excited to have on the other end of the line Dr. Terra Ziporyn Snider. Today we're going to talk about a pretty hot topic, “Start School Later.” Couldn't really have anyone more qualified to talk about the subject. Dr. Snider is one of the cofounders of the movement. Hi Terra. Dr Terra Ziporyn Snider (TS) : Well hi. How are you? JM: I'm really good, thanks. I'm really excited to talk to you and thanks so much for coming on the podcast. TS: It is my pleasure. There is nothing I like more than discussing this particular topic and thank you for inviting me to speak. JM: My pleasure. So what we're gonna do now, we're gonna assume that some people have heard about the Start School Later movement but we're gonna not make the assumption that everybody has heard about it. So we're going to give it a bit of a background to this whole subject of adolescent sleep and teen sleep. We're going to be talking about this movement that started a few decades ago to try to tackle this problem by changing some of the very very early school start times in the S...

Everyone is familiar with MIT and the university's reputation as a serious force in the world of science, tech, and research, but how many are aware of MIT's legacy in the arts? Did you know that MIT's founder had envisioned incorporating the arts from the very beginning?In this episode we speak with Leila Kinney and Evan Ziporyn of MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology (CAST) about MIT's culture of creativity and exploration, the institution's mission to humanize science and tech, and the exciting projects that have emerged from CAST, like Tomás Saraceno's Arachnid Orchestra.-About Leila Kinney-Leila W. Kinney is the Executive Director of Arts Initiatives and of the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), working with Associate Provost Philip S. Khoury, the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P), the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS), the Creative Arts Council, the Council for the Arts at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, and the MIT Museum, to advance the arts at MIT in the areas of strategic planning, cross-school collaborations, communications and resource development.Kinney is an art historian with experience in both SA+P, where she was on the faculty in the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Department of Architecture (HTC) and SHASS, where she taught in the Program in Women’s Studies and in Comparative Media Studies. She specializes in modern art, with an emphasis on media in transition, arts institutions and artists’ engagement with mass culture. She is a member of the Executive Committee of a2ru (Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities) and of the Advisory Committees of the Catalyst Collaborative at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the MIT Museum.-About Evan Ziporyn-Evan Ziporyn makes music at the crossroads between genres and cultures, and between East and West. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, Yale University, and UC Berkeley with Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and Gerard Grisey. He first traveled to Bali in 1981, studying with Madé Lebah, Colin McPhee’s 1930s musical informant. He returned on a Fulbright in 1987.Earlier that year, he performed a clarinet solo at the First Bang on a Can Marathon in New York. His involvement with Bang on a Can continued for twenty five years. In 1992, he co-founded the Bang on a Can All-stars (Musical America’s 2005 Ensemble of the Year), with whom he toured the globe and premiered over one hundred commissioned works, collaborating with Nik Bartsch, Iva Bittova, Don Byron, Ornette Coleman, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Thurston Moore, Terry Riley, and Tan Dun. He co-produced their seminal 1996 recording of Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports,” as well as their most recent CD, “Big Beautiful Dark & Scary” (2012).Ziporyn joined the MIT faculty in 1990, founding Gamelan Galak Tika in 1993, and beginning a series of groundbreaking compositions for gamelan & Western instruments. These include three evening-length works, 2001’s “ShadowBang,” 2004’s “Oedipus Rex” (Robert Woodruff, director), and 2009’s “A House in Bali,” an opera which joins Western singers with Balinese traditional performers, and the Bang on a Can All-stars with a full gamelan. It received its world premiere in Bali that summer and its New York premiere at BAM Next Wave in October 2010.As a clarinetist, Ziporyn recorded the definitive version of Steve Reich’s multi-clarinet “New York Counterpoint” in 1996, sharing in that ensemble’s Grammy in 1998. In 2001, his solo clarinet CD, “This is Not A Clarinet,” made Top Ten lists across the country. His compositions have been commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road, Kronos Quartet, American Composers Orchestra, Maya Beiser, So Percussion, Wu Man, and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, with whom he recorded his most recent CD, “Big Grenadilla/Mumbai” (2012). His honors include awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (2011); The Herb Alpert Foundation (2011); USA Artists Walker Fellowship (2007); MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes Prize (2006); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship (2004); as well as commissions from Meet the Composer/Commissioning Music USA and the Rockefeller MAP Fund. Recordings of his works have been been released on Cantaloupe, Sony Classical, New Albion, New World, Koch, Naxos, Innova, and CRI.He is Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Music at MIT. He also serves as Head of Music and Theater Arts, and in 2012 was appointed inaugural Director of MIT’s Center for Art Science & Technology. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, with Christine Southworth, and has two children, Leonardo (19) and Ava (12).-About MIT CAST-The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) creates new opportunities for art, science and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge and discovery. CAST’s multidisciplinary platform presents performing and visual arts programs, supports research projects for artists working with science and engineering labs, and sponsors symposia, classes, workshops, design studios, lectures and publications. The Center is funded in part by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In this episode we interview Brook Ziporyn, professor of Chinese religion, philosophy, and comparative thought at the University of Chicago, on his paper: “Setup, Punch Line, and the Mind-Body Problem: A Neo-Tiantai Approach.” This is part 2 of a two part series.

In this episode we interview Brook Ziporyn, professor of Chinese religion, philosophy, and comparative thought at the University of Chicago, on his paper: “Setup, Punch Line, and the Mind-Body Problem: A Neo-Tiantai Approach.” This is part 1 of a two part series.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Brook A. Ziporyn (Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago Divinity School) is a scholar of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy, and an expositor and translator of some of the most complex philosophical texts and concepts of the Chinese religious traditions. Ziporyn delivered a talk on April 28 at the Center in Beijing entitled “Religion Without God: China’s Precious Spiritual Heritage.” After the English-language lecture and Q&A session, Ziporyn continued the discussion with attendees in Chinese.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Brook A. Ziporyn (Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the University of Chicago Divinity School) is a scholar of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy, and an expositor and translator of some of the most complex philosophical texts and concepts of the Chinese religious traditions. Ziporyn delivered a talk on April 28 at the Center in Beijing entitled “Religion Without God: China’s Precious Spiritual Heritage.” After the English-language lecture and Q&A session, Ziporyn continued the discussion with attendees in Chinese.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dean's Forum on the new edition (University of Chicago Press, 2014) of The Journey To The West by Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, with responses from Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, and Brook A. Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought. Yu's translation of The Journey To the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey To the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dean's Forum on the new edition (University of Chicago Press, 2014) of The Journey To The West by Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, with responses from Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions, and Brook A. Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought. Yu's translation of The Journey To the West, initially published in 1983, introduced English-speaking audiences to the classic Chinese novel in its entirety for the first time. Written in the sixteenth century, The Journey To the West tells the story of the fourteen-year pilgrimage of the monk Xuanzang, one of China's most famous religious heroes, and his three supernatural disciples, in search of Buddhist scriptures. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Professor Brook Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought, on the peculiarities and challenges of teaching Philosophy of Religions. Cosponsored by the Philosophy of Religions Club. The Craft of Teaching (CoT) is the Divinity School's program of pedagogical development for its graduate students, dedicated to preparing a new generation of accomplished educators in the field of religious studies. We bring together Divinity School faculty, current students, and an extensive alumni network of decorated teachers to share our craft and to advance critical reflection on religious studies pedagogy.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Professor Brook Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought, on the peculiarities and challenges of teaching Philosophy of Religions. Cosponsored by the Philosophy of Religions Club. The Craft of Teaching (CoT) is the Divinity School's program of pedagogical development for its graduate students, dedicated to preparing a new generation of accomplished educators in the field of religious studies. We bring together Divinity School faculty, current students, and an extensive alumni network of decorated teachers to share our craft and to advance critical reflection on religious studies pedagogy.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Dean's Forum on “Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions” by Christian K. Wedemeyer, Associate Professor of the History of Religions. Jeffrey Stackert, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, and Brook A. Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought, responding. Recorded in Swift Hall’s Common Room on January 22, 2014.