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Charles Manson: The Second ...

11.17.2023

This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Charles Manson. Charles is a master woodcarver and author who spent several years as a Buddhist monk and in meditation retreats. He holds a master’s in theological studies from Harvard ...

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11.17.2023 Charles Manson: The Second Karmapa (#175) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Charles Manson. Charles is a master woodcarver and author who spent several years as a Buddhist monk and in meditation retreats. He holds a master’s in theological studies from Harvard ...
11.10.2023 Anne C. Klein: Being Human and a Buddha Too (#174) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast was recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat with special guest, Anne C. Klein. Anne is a professor and former chair of the religion department at Rice University. She is also a lama in ...
11.04.2023 Sangye Khandro: The Parinirvana of Venerable Dhomang Gyatrul Rinpoche (#173) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest, Sangye Khandro. During this episode host Daniel Aitken and Sangye discuss Venerable Dhomang Gyatrul Rinpoche’s passing into parinirvana earlier this year, her root teacher, ...
10.31.2023 Jay Garfield: Buddhist Philosophy In-Depth (#172) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Jay Garfield. Jay Garfield is Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Logic Program and of the Five ...
10.21.2023 Geshe Tenzin Namdak: The Mind and Knowing (#171) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features Geshe Tenzin Namdak. Geshe Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher, having graduated with a bachelor of science degree in hydrology. He took ordination from His ...
10.14.2023 Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo: The Signless and the Deathless (#170) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo. Venerable Anālayo is a scholar, meditation teacher, and author. He completed his PhD research on the Satipaṭṭhānasutta at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. His works from Wisdom include Daughters ...
10.06.2023 Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche: The Yoga of Niguma (#169) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche. Rinpoche is the Lineage Holder of Shangpa Kagyu. He was born in 1990 and recognized by H. H. the Dalai Lama and H. ...
09.23.2023 Thupten Jinpa: Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics (#168) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Thupten Jinpa and host Daniel Aitken in a discussion about the series Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics series. The two pay ...
09.15.2023 Lama Tsomo: Ancient Wisdom for Our Times (#167) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, features Lama Tsomo. Lama Tsomo is a spiritual teacher, author, and co-founder of Namchak Foundation, which preserves and shares Tibetan Buddhist practice in accessible, contemporary ways. She dedicates the majority of her time and ...
08.18.2023 Malcolm Smith: Dzogchen: Ten Key Terms (#166) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a special guest, Malcolm Smith. Malcolm Smith has been a student of the Great Perfection teachings since 1992 and graduated in 2009 from Shang Shung Institute’s ...
07.21.2023 Khandro Kunga Bumma: Bodhicitta, Happiness, and Interdependence (#165) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a special guest, Khandro Kunga Bumma. As a young woman, Khando-la had a vision to leave her homeland of Tibet and go to Nepal. There, she ...
06.30.2023 Karl Brunnhölzl: Sounds of Innate Freedom: Volume 3 (#164) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features the return of special guest Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, PhD. Karl was originally trained as a physician. He received his systematic training in Tibetan language and Buddhist ...
05.26.2023 Geshe Tenzin Namdak: Freedom Through Correct Knowing (#163) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Geshe Tenzin Namdak. After completing his university studies in Hydrology, Geshe la worked as an environmental researcher in the Netherlands. He began studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute and was eventually ordained by His ...
05.15.2023 Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Dharma in the Modern World (#162) In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, Wisdom CEO Daniel Aitken interviews renowned teachers Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. This conversation heralded the beginning of the 2020 Serenity Ridge Dialogues, an online summit exploring the intersection of spirituality ...
04.15.2023 Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi: Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali (#161) This Wisdom Podcast filmed as a live Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Venerable Bhikku Bodhi. Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City, born in 1944. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College ...
03.31.2023 Karl Brunnhölzl: Sounds of Innate Freedom (#160) This Wisdom Podcast filmed as a live Wisdom Dharma Chat features special guest Karl Brunnhölzl. Originally trained as a physician, Karl Brunnhölzl, MD, PhD, received his systematic training in Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy and practice at the Marpa Institute ...
03.03.2023 His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche: Mahāmudrā (#159) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche speaking with host Daniel Aitken. His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche was born a son of ...
02.18.2023 Shaila Catherine: Beyond Distraction (#158) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Shaila Catherine, who has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than eight years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught insight meditation since 1996 in the U.S. and internationally, dedicating several ...
02.03.2023 Cortland Dahl: Meditation and Neuroscience (#157) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Cortland Dahl speaking with host Daniel Aitken. Cortland is a scientist, translator, and meditation teacher who offers workshops and leads retreats around the world. He has ...
01.13.2023 Robert Thurman & Susan A. Landesman: The Tārā Tantra (#156) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Susan A. Landesman interviewed by Prof. Robert Thurman and host Daniel Aitken. Susan A. Landesman, independent scholar and educator in New York City, is the author ...
11.11.2022 Koshin Paley Ellison: Untangled (#155) This Wisdom Podcast features Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Koshin is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and Certified Chaplaincy Educator. He has six years of training at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association as well as clinical contemplative training at both Mount ...
11.04.2022 Khandro Kunzang Dechen Chodron: Immersion in the Ngagpa Tradition (#154) In this episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, host Daniel Aitken is joined by Khandro Kunzang Dechen Chodron, student of the great Nyingmapa Tsa-Lung and Dzogchen master, Kunzang Dorje Rinpoche. Khandro Kunzang left behind ...
10.28.2022 Geshe YongDong: Calm Breath, Calm Mind (#153) This Wisdom Podcast episode features Geshe YongDong Losar. Geshela is a Tibetan Bön lama, or spiritual teacher, in the Yungdrung Bön lineage, which is rooted in the indigenous spiritual tradition of the Himalayas. He lives in Courtenay, British Columbia, where ...
10.22.2022 Mark Siderits: Buddhism as Philosophy (#152) This Wisdom Podcast features translator and philosopher Mark Siderits, trained in Asian and Western philosophy at the University of Hawaii and Yale University. Mark has taught both Asian and Western philosophy for many years at Illinois State University, and as ...
10.14.2022 Thupten Jinpa: Tsongkhapa’s Mādhyamaka (#151) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Thupten Jinpa Langri and host Daniel Aitken. Thupten Jinpa, educated in the classical Tibetan monastic academia and Geshe Lharampa, equivalent to a doctorate in divinity. Jinpa ...
09.16.2022 James B. Apple: Stairway to Atiśa (#149) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features James B. Apple, Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Calgary. James’ research focuses upon critical analysis of Mahāyāna sūtras and topics within Indian and Tibetan Buddhist scholasticism. His numerous books and ...
09.02.2022 Malcolm Smith: Dzogchen, Sakya, and Translation (#148) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features host Daniel Aitken joined by Malcolm Smith—translator in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and long-time practitioner of Dzogchen. Malcolm Smith has been a student of the Great ...
08.19.2022 Klaus-Dieter Mathes: Mahamudra and Shentong (#147) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with special guest Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Head of the Department of South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies at the University of Vienna. Host Daniel Aitken and Klaus-Dieter discuss: his initial ...
08.05.2022 Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Recognizing Awareness (#146) This Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche and host Daniel Aitken. Rinpoche is the author of two bestselling books and oversees the Tergar Meditation Community, an international network of Buddhist ...
07.22.2022 Heidi I. Köppl: Roots of Duality (#145) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Heidi I. Köppl, translator and interpreter for Tibetan lamas such as Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche and Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, and editor-in-chief of Tara’s Triple Excellence Online Meditation Program. Heidi translated at the Ka-Nying Shedrub ...
07.15.2022 Karma Trinlay Rinpoche: Life as a Tulku (#144) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features Karma Trinlay Rinpoche, a highly accomplished Buddhist teacher and meditation master. Born in 1975 to an American mother and French Father, and recognized by His Holiness ...
07.08.2022 Ven. Anālayo: Early Buddhist Oral Tradition (#143) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Wisdom author Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo: scholar, author, and meditation teacher. Born in Germany in 1962 and ordained in Sri Lanka in 1995, Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo completed a PhD thesis on the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta ...
06.24.2022 Henry Shukman: Radical Simplicity (#142) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features poet, writer, and Sanbo Zen teacher Henry Shukman. Henry is Guiding Teacher at Mountain Cloud Zen Center in Santa Fe, studying primarily with Joan Rieck Roshi, ...
06.10.2022 Rabkar Wangchuk: Mystery of Life (#141) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features contemporary Tibetan artist Rabkar Wangchuk. Traditionally trained, Rabkar studied for seventeen years at Gyudmed Tantric University, where he also received training in Tibetan thangka painting and ...
06.03.2022 Mahāmudrā: A Practical Guide (#140) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features special guest His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche as he and host Daniel Aitken celebrate the launch of Rinpoche’s most recent book, Mahāmudrā: A Practical ...
05.20.2022 Matthew Kapstein: The Reluctant Professor (#139) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with special guest Matthew Kapstein Ph.D., Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Chicago, director of Tibetan Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris, and co-editor of ...
05.16.2022 Shaila Catherine: Beyond Distraction (#138) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features Shaila Catherine, who has been practicing meditation since 1980, with more than eight years of accumulated silent retreat experience. She has taught insight meditation since 1996 in the U.S. and internationally, dedicating several ...
04.25.2022 Venerable Robina and Venerable Chokyi: Liberation Prison Project (#137) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features an interview with host Daniel Aitken and special guests Venerable Robina and Venerable Chokyi, discussing their work with the Liberation Prison Project. The Liberation Prison Project ...
04.22.2022 Daniel A. Hirshberg: Nyingma Lore and Lineage (#136) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Daniel A. Hirshberg, who earned a PhD from Harvard University in 2012 and was associate professor in the Department of Classics, Philosophy, & Religion at the University of Mary Washington ...
03.18.2022 Alejandro Chaoul on Body Buddhism (#135) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Dr. Alejandro Chaoul, who has studied Tibetan yoga for thirty years with the tradition’s greatest masters, including Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Dr. Chaoul and host Daniel Aitken ...
03.04.2022 H. H. the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, & B. Alan Wallace in Conversation (#134) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live at the 2021 Serenity Ridge Dialogues features a conversation between H. H. the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, & B. Alan Wallace, moderated by Daniel Aitken. Topics discussed include body, ...
01.21.2022 Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Early Buddhism and Dzogchen (#133) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a discussion with special guests Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche. Ven. Anālayo, Rinpoche, and host Daniel Aitken discuss many Buddhist ideas and practices, comparing ...
12.17.2021 Alexander Berzin: Dharma for Everyone (#132) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Alexander Berzin. Alex is a translator and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. A prolific author and translator, he has published seventeen books and is also the founder of StudyBuddhism.com, an extensive ...
12.03.2021 Pamela Weiss: Real Health, Real Freedom, and Fierce Feminine Buddhism (#131) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Pamela Weiss. Pamela is the author of A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism, a teacher in the Insight tradition, and has received Dharma transmission from Teah Strozer at ...
11.19.2021 Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche: 84000 App Launch Celebration (#130) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features an interview with Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche—teacher, filmmaker, writer, and founder of several nonprofit initiatives including 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. This episode was a ...
11.05.2021 Karl Brunnhölzl: Milarepa’s Kungfu (#129) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features an interview with special guest Karl Brunnhölzl, celebrating the launch of his book Milarepa’s Kungfu. In this episode, Karl and host Daniel Aitken discuss the origin ...
11.02.2021 Achariya Doug Qapel Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei: Journeying Across Traditions (#128) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Achariya Doug Qapel Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei, both trained in the Karma Kagyu lineage. They follow the tradition of the late Namgyal Rinpoche, a pioneer weaving together Eastern and ...
10.22.2021 David Nichtern: Unsheathing the Sword of Prajna (#127) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features an interview with David Nichtern, a senior Buddhist teacher, meditation guide, Emmy award–winning composer and musician, and founder of Dharma Moon. David is the author of ...
09.24.2021 Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: Emptiness, Dzogchen, and Women in Buddhism (#126) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast features an interview with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. Tenzin Palmo is a bhikṣuṇī in the Drukpa lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism and a brilliant teacher who is able to touch the hearts ...
09.03.2021 Koshin Paley Ellison: Making All of Life a Place of Practice (#125) This episode of the Wisdom Podcast, recorded live as a Wisdom Dharma Chat, features a conversation with Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison. Koshin is an author, Zen teacher, Jungian psychotherapist, and certified chaplaincy educator. Koshin and host Daniel Aitken discuss the ...

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The Wisdom Podcast episodes:

Charles Manson: The Second Karmapa (#175)

Anne C. Klein: Being Human and a Buddha Too (#174)

Sangye Khandro: The Parinirvana of Venerable Dhomang Gyatrul Rinpoche (#173)

Jay Garfield: Buddhist Philosophy In-Depth (#172)

Geshe Tenzin Namdak: The Mind and Knowing (#171)

Venerable Bhikkhu Anālayo: The Signless and the Deathless (#170)

Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche: The Yoga of Niguma (#169)

Thupten Jinpa: Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics (#168)

Lama Tsomo: Ancient Wisdom for Our Times (#167)

Malcolm Smith: Dzogchen: Ten Key Terms (#166)

Khandro Kunga Bumma: Bodhicitta, Happiness, and Interdependence (#165)

Karl Brunnhölzl: Sounds of Innate Freedom: Volume 3 (#164)

Geshe Tenzin Namdak: Freedom Through Correct Knowing (#163)

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Dharma in the Modern World (#162)

Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi: Reading the Buddha’s Discourses in Pali (#161)

Karl Brunnhölzl: Sounds of Innate Freedom (#160)

His Eminence the 12th Zurmang Gharwang Rinpoche: Mahāmudrā (#159)

Shaila Catherine: Beyond Distraction (#158)

Cortland Dahl: Meditation and Neuroscience (#157)

Robert Thurman & Susan A. Landesman: The Tārā Tantra (#156)

Koshin Paley Ellison: Untangled (#155)

Khandro Kunzang Dechen Chodron: Immersion in the Ngagpa Tradition (#154)

Geshe YongDong: Calm Breath, Calm Mind (#153)

Mark Siderits: Buddhism as Philosophy (#152)

Thupten Jinpa: Tsongkhapa’s Mādhyamaka (#151)

James B. Apple: Stairway to Atiśa (#149)

Malcolm Smith: Dzogchen, Sakya, and Translation (#148)

Klaus-Dieter Mathes: Mahamudra and Shentong (#147)

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Recognizing Awareness (#146)

Heidi I. Köppl: Roots of Duality (#145)

Karma Trinlay Rinpoche: Life as a Tulku (#144)

Ven. Anālayo: Early Buddhist Oral Tradition (#143)

Henry Shukman: Radical Simplicity (#142)

Rabkar Wangchuk: Mystery of Life (#141)

Mahāmudrā: A Practical Guide (#140)

Matthew Kapstein: The Reluctant Professor (#139)

Shaila Catherine: Beyond Distraction (#138)

Venerable Robina and Venerable Chokyi: Liberation Prison Project (#137)

Daniel A. Hirshberg: Nyingma Lore and Lineage (#136)

Alejandro Chaoul on Body Buddhism (#135)

H. H. the 42nd Sakya Trizin, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, & B. Alan Wallace in Conversation (#134)

Ven. Bhikkhu Anālayo and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: Early Buddhism and Dzogchen (#133)

Alexander Berzin: Dharma for Everyone (#132)

Pamela Weiss: Real Health, Real Freedom, and Fierce Feminine Buddhism (#131)

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche: 84000 App Launch Celebration (#130)

Karl Brunnhölzl: Milarepa’s Kungfu (#129)

Achariya Doug Qapel Duncan and Catherine Pawasarat Sensei: Journeying Across Traditions (#128)

David Nichtern: Unsheathing the Sword of Prajna (#127)

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo: Emptiness, Dzogchen, and Women in Buddhism (#126)

Koshin Paley Ellison: Making All of Life a Place of Practice (#125)