Meet your host Dr. Pierce Salguero and producer/editor Dr. Lan Li as we inaugurate the Blue Beryl podcast and kick off our first season dedicated to Buddhist medicine. We discuss Pierce's background as a practitioner of Theravada Buddhism and traditional Thai medicine, some interesting experiences he had at Thai temples and meditation centers, and his work as an academic researcher of Buddhist medicine globally. We also chat about tensions between scholarship and practice, our previous multimedia collaborations related to Buddhism and Asian medicine, as well as our goals for the first season of the podcast.
Resources mentioned in the pod:
- Pierce's website (www.piercesalguero.com)
- Lan's website (www.lan-a-li.com)
- Salguero, Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas for the Curious and Skeptical (2022)
- Pierce's blog about 1980s movies
- Pierce's centipede article in Tricycle, (2022)
- Strickmann, Chinese Magical Medicine (2002)
- Salguero, Translating Buddhist Medicine in Medieval China (2014)
- Salguero, A Global History of Buddhism & Medicine (2022)
- Salguero, Buddhism & Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources (2017)
- Salguero, Buddhism & Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020)
- Medicine | Race | Democracy Lab (www.mrdlab.org)
- Jivaka Project (www.jivaka.net)
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