Bright On Buddhism

Nicholas Bright Haight
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Welcome to Bright on Buddhism, a podcast where we discuss and explain topics of Buddhism in a casual, conversational, question and answer setting. My name is Nick Bright, scholar of East Asian Buddhism. I am currently studying for my Master’s degree in Religion at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, where I am specializing in pre-modern Japanese Buddhist architecture history. I have researched topics such as Japanese Buddhist responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, Buddhist Haiku poetry, and the Japanese history of science and religion. I will be joined by my friend Proven Paradox.

  1. 3 HR AGO

    What is Gelug Buddhism?

    Bright on Buddhism - Episode 136 - What is Gelug Buddhism? What are some of its similarities and differences to other schools of Buddhism? What is its historical significance? Resources: Schaik, Sam van. Tibet: A History. Yale University Press 2011 Powers, John (2007) Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, p. 467. Snow Lion Publications. Jinpa, Thupten (2019). Tsongkhapa: A Buddha in the Land of Snows. Boulder, CO: Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1-61180-646-5. Wallace, Vesna A. (2015). Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society (illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-995866-5. Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, NM. ISBN 1-57416-092-3. Arnold, Edward A. (2021). Tsongkhapa’s Coordination of Sūtra and Tantra: Ascetic Performance, Narrative, and Philosophy in the Creation of the Tibetan Buddhist Self, Doctoral Thesis, Columbia University. _________________________________ If you like our show and would like to support us, we encourage you to give your money or resources to a worthy cause. We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    24 min

  2. 3 APR

    What is Hawaiian Buddhism?

    Bright on Buddhism - Episode 135 - What is Hawaiian Buddhism? What is its history? How does it interact with the tensions surrounding Hawaii's statehood? Resources: https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-hawaii-big-island/ https://savingplaces.org/stories/japanese-buddhist-temples-in-hawaii-preserve-their-history-by-embracing-change https://byodo-in.com/ https://hongwanjihawaii.com/jodo-shinshu-buddhism/ https://www.multiculturalcooperation.net/content/the-role-of-identity-in-the-rise-and-decline-of-buddhism-in-hawaii-the-50th-state-of-the-united-states-of-america Kimura, Yukiko (1992). Issei : Japanese immigrants in Hawaii (Pbk. ed.). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0824814819. OCLC 37566798. _________________________________ If you like our show and would like to support us, we encourage you to give your money or resources to a worthy cause. We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    16 min

  3. 27 MAR ·  BONUS

    Kōans with Dox

    Bright on Buddhism - Kōans with Dox Join us as we discuss 3 major kōans in Zen Buddhism - “Ordinary Mind is the Way,” “Not the wind, not the flag,” and “a non-Buddhist questions the Buddha.” _________________________________ If you like our show and would like to support us, we encourage you to give your money or resources to a worthy cause. We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    29 min

  4. 20 MAR

    Revisit - What are the fundamental beliefs of Buddhism?

    Bright on Buddhism - Episode 134 - Revisit - What are the fundamental beliefs of Buddhism? Does Buddhism have an afterlife? Does Buddhism have a bible like Christianity? Resources: Kevin Trainor: Buddhism: An Illustrated Guide Donald Lopez: Norton Anthology of World Religions: Buddhism Chan Master Sheng Yen: Orthodox Chinese Buddhism Nagarjuna: Verses of The Middle Way (The Madhyamakarika) Conze, Edward, trans. The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines and Its Verse Summary. Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1973. Lopez, Donald S., Jr. Elaborations on Emptiness: Uses of the Heart Sutra. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Stearns, Cyrus. The Buddha from Dolpo: A Study of the Life and Thought of the Tibetan Master Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. Streng, Frederick. Emptiness: A Study in Religious Meaning. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1967. Robert E Buswell: Encyclopedia of Buddhism: Death, Mark L. Blum. Nirvana, Luis O. Gómez. Samsara, Bryan J. Cuevas _________________________________ If you like our show and would like to support us, we encourage you to give your money or resources to a worthy cause. We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    19 min

  5. 13 MAR ·  BONUS

    Research Project Series - Yōkai

    Bright on Buddhism - Research Project Series - Yōkai Resources: Foster, Michael Dylan (2009). Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25361-2. Hirota, Ryūhei (2021). "Traversing the Natural, Supernatural, and Paranormal: Yōkai in Postwar Japan". Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 48 (2, Religion and Identity in Japan since 1940): 321–340. doi:10.18874/jjrs.48.2.2021.321-339. JSTOR 27039930. S2CID 237709697. Komatsu, Kazuhiko [in Japanese] (2011). Yōkaigaku no kiso chishiki 妖怪学の基礎知識 (in Japanese). Kadokawa gakugei shuppan. ISBN 978-4-04-703487-7. Komatsu, Kazuhiko [in Japanese] (2015). Yōkaigaku shinkō: Yōkai kara miru nihonjin no kokoro 妖怪学新考 妖怪からみる日本人の心 (in Japanese). Kodansha. ISBN 978-4-06-292307-1. Miyata, Noboru [in Japanese] (2002). 妖怪の民俗学 (in Japanese). Chikuma shobo. ISBN 4-480-08699-4. _________________________________ If you like our show and would like to support us, we encourage you to give your money or resources to a worthy cause. We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    1hr 1min

  6. 6 MAR

    Who was Daosheng?

    Bright on Buddhism - Episode 133 - Who was Daosheng? What did he do? What is his significance to East Asian Buddhism? Resources: Blum, Mark (2003). "Daosheng". In Buswell, Robert E. (ed.). Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan Reference Lib. pp. 201–202. ISBN 0028657187. Buswell, Robert Jr; Lopez, Donald S. Jr., eds. (2013). Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691157863. Hsiang-Kuang, Chou (1956). A History of Chinese Buddhism. Allahabad: Indo-Chinese Literature Publications. Kanno, Hiroshi (1994). "An Overview of Research on Chinese Commentaries of the Lotus Sutra". Acta Asiatica. 66: 87–103. Kim, Young-Ho (1985). Tao-Sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sutra: A Study and Translation. dissertation, Albany, NY.: McMaster University. Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Kim, Young-ho (1992). Tao-Sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sutra: A Study and Translation. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-0898-9. Lai, Whalen (1982). "Sinitic speculations on buddha-nature". Philosophy East and West. 32 (2): 135–149. doi:10.2307/1398712. JSTOR 1398712. Lai, Whalen (1991). "Tao Sheng's Theory of Sudden Enlightenment Re-examined". In Peter N. Gregory (ed.). Sudden and Gradual. Approaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. pp. 169–200. Tanabe, George J. (1992). "Review: Tao-sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sutra: A Study and Translation, by Young-he Kim". Philosophy East and West. 42 (2): 351–355. doi:10.2307/1399301. JSTOR 1399301. Archived from the original on August 17, 2011. _______________________ If you like our show and would like to support us, we encourage you to give your money or resources to a worthy cause. We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    17 min

  7. 27 FEB ·  BONUS

    Avatamsaka Sutra Book 8 - The Four Holy Truths

    Bright on Buddhism - Avatamsaka Sutra - Book 30 - The Incalculable Join us as we read and discuss Book 30 of Thomas Cleary's translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra! Resources: Prince, Tony (2014). Universal Enlightenment, An introduction to the teachings and practices of Huayen Buddhism. Kongting Publishing Company Ltd. Taiwan.; Beer, Robert (2003), The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols, Serindia Publications; Burley, Mikel (2007), Classical Samkhya and Yoga: An Indian Metaphysics of Experience, Routledge; Cook, Francis H. (1977), Hua-Yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra, Penn State Press, ISBN 0-271-02190-X; Debroy, Bibek (2013), Mahabharata, Volume 7 (Google eBoek), Penguin UK; Jones, Ken H. (2003), The New Social Face of Buddhism: A Call to Action, Wisdom Publications, ISBN 0-86171-365-6; Goudriaan, Teun (1978), Maya: Divine And Human, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers; Kabat-Zinn, Jon; Watson, Gay; Batchelor, Stephen; Claxton, Guy (2000), Indra's Net at Work: The Mainstreaming of Dharma Practice in Society. In: The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Science, and Our Day-to-Day Lives, Weiser, ISBN 1-57863-172-6; Lee, Kwang-Sae (2005), East and West: Fusion of Horizons, Homa & Sekey Books, ISBN 1-931907-26-9; Malhotra, Rajiv (2014), Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity, Noida, India: HarperCollins Publishers India, ISBN 978-9351362449 ISBN 9351362442, OCLC 871215576; Odin, Steve (1982), Process Metaphysics and Hua-Yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration Vs. Interpenetration, SUNY Press, ISBN 0-87395-568-4; Ram, Tulsi (2013), Atharva Veda: Authentic English Translation, Agniveer, pp. 910–911, retrieved 24 June 2014 ____________ At the time of recording, the list of people murdered by ICE includes - Victor Manuel Díaz - no fundraiser link currently available Geraldo Lunas - https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-bring-their-father-home-for-goodbye Luis Gustavo Nunez - https://www.gofundme.com/f/ayuda-para-regresar-a-mi-hermano-a-casa Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz - https://www.gofundme.com/f/luis-beltran-yanez-cruz Heber Sanchez Dominguez - https://www.gofundme.com/f/heber-sanchez-dominguez Parady La - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-parady-las-family-and-fight-ice-for-change Keith Porter Jr. - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-franceolas-granddaughters-future Alex Pretti - https://www.gofundme.com/f/alex-pretti-is-an-american-hero Renee Good - donations currently paused We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    53 min

  8. 20 FEB

    How do you balance romantic desire and the desire for companionship with non-attachment?

    Bright on Buddhism - Episode 132 - How do you balance romantic desire and the desire for companionship with non-attachment? Is romantic desire bad in Buddhism? What are the potential dangers of desire for partnership and companionship? Resources: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.055.than.html ____________ At the time of recording, the list of people murdered by ICE includes - Victor Manuel Díaz - no fundraiser link currently available Geraldo Lunas - https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-bring-their-father-home-for-goodbye Luis Gustavo Nunez - https://www.gofundme.com/f/ayuda-para-regresar-a-mi-hermano-a-casa Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz - https://www.gofundme.com/f/luis-beltran-yanez-cruz Heber Sanchez Dominguez - https://www.gofundme.com/f/heber-sanchez-dominguez Parady La - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-parady-las-family-and-fight-ice-for-change Keith Porter Jr. - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-franceolas-granddaughters-future Alex Pretti - https://www.gofundme.com/f/alex-pretti-is-an-american-hero Renee Good - donations currently paused We can get through this. Our strongest weapon is solidarity. Stay strong and help where you can. Thank you. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com. 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

    17 min
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Welcome to Bright on Buddhism, a podcast where we discuss and explain topics of Buddhism in a casual, conversational, question and answer setting. My name is Nick Bright, scholar of East Asian Buddhism. I am currently studying for my Master’s degree in Religion at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, where I am specializing in pre-modern Japanese Buddhist architecture history. I have researched topics such as Japanese Buddhist responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, Buddhist Haiku poetry, and the Japanese history of science and religion. I will be joined by my friend Proven Paradox.

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  • Creator
    Nicholas Bright Haight
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    252
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Nicholas Bright Haight
  • Show Website
    Bright On Buddhism

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