{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Buddhist Studies","slug":"new-books-in-buddhist-studies-851606","podcast_index_feed_id":851606,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT8948303572","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/religion-faith/buddhist-studies/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b391c9ba-ecf5-11e8-908d-53b9e7cf016b/image/a37eb6d9dc7eaa5c9949983662b71010.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":416,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/buddhist-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:21:55.893820+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-buddhist-studies-851606"},"episode":{"title":"Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew eds., \"Buddhist Masculinities\" (Columbia UP, 2023)","slug":"megan-bryson-and-kevin-buckelew-eds-buddhist-masculinities-columbia-up-2023","published_at":"2026-01-02T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-buddhist-studies-851606/megan-bryson-and-kevin-buckelew-eds-buddhist-masculinities-columbia-up-2023","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-buddhist-studies-851606","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8931393993.mp3?updated=1695155393","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR8931393993.mp3?updated=1695155393","summary":"While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According to Buddhist scriptures, the Buddha's body boasts thirty-two physical features, including lionlike jaws, thighs like a royal stag, broad shoulders, and a deep, resonant voice, that distinguish him from ordinary men. As Buddhism spread throughout Asia and around the world, the Buddha remained an exemplary man, but Buddhists in other times and places developed their own understandings of what it meant to be masculine. This transdisciplinary book brings together essays that explore the variety and diversity of Buddhist masculinities, from early India to the contemporary United States, and from bodhisattva-kings to martial monks. Buddhist Masculinities (Columbia UP, 2023) adopts the methods of religious studies, anthropology, art history, textual-historical studies, and cultural studies to explore texts, images, films, media, and embodiments of masculinity across the Buddhist world, past and present. It turns scholarly attention to normative forms of masculinity that usually go unmarked and unstudied precisely because they are \"normal,\" illuminating the religious and cultural processes that construct Buddhist masculinities. Engaging with contemporary issues of gender identity, intersectionality, and sexual ethics, Buddhist Masculinities ushers in a new era for the study of Buddhism and gender. MEGAN BRYSON is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and chair of the Asian Studies program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her B.A. in Religious Studies and Chinese from University of Oregon, and her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Stanford University. Her research focuses primarily on themes of gender an…","meta_description":"While early Buddhists hailed their religion's founder for opening a path to enlightenment, they also exalted him as the paragon of masculinity. According…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3325,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-buddhist-studies-851606/episodes/megan-bryson-and-kevin-buckelew-eds-buddhist-masculinities-columbia-up-2023/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-buddhist-studies-851606/megan-bryson-and-kevin-buckelew-eds-buddhist-masculinities-columbia-up-2023.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}