# Being a 'Bad' Buddhist with Sharon A. Suh

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Podcast: [Tricycle Talks](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tricycle-talks-828620)
Published: 2025-12-10T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://tricycle.org/podcast/sharon-suh
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Duration seconds: 3250

## Resource

Sharon A. Suh is a professor of theology and religious studies at Seattle University, and she is currently the president of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Her new book, Emergent Dharma, brings together the voices of eleven Asian American feminist Buddhists to present a dynamic vision of Buddhist practice and identity. In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Suh to discuss why she describes herself as a bad Buddhist, the dangers of equating Buddhism primarily with meditation, what it means for the book to be a sangha in written form, and what she’s learned from bell hooks about love as an action to end domination.

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