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Of Mud and Lotuses audiobook sample
2w ago00:07:57Tap to summarizeA unique blend of personal reflection, creative histories, and interview-based nonfiction that vividly imagines the lives of Buddhist women over 2,500 years. Of Mud and Lotuses illuminates the hardships, resilience, and creative ways in which Buddhist women have applied the Dharma to daily life—often in ways that history has ignored. With lyrical storytelling and a perspective informed by decades as a Japanese American scholar of women in Buddhism, Paula Arai conjures the kitchens, temples, and intimate moments of Buddhist women’s lives across India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, and the contemporary U.S. A mother and daughter circle a stupa amidst a scent of jasmine. The Buddha exchanges letters with Mahaprajapati, his aunt and adoptive mother. An ancient Indian queen proclaims the womb as the very cradle of Buddha-nature. A woman in fifth-century Sri Lanka expresses the Dharma by cooking for the local bhikkhus even as she cares for her ill sister-in-law. A widow finds solace in the communal rituals of a Japanese nunnery. In these creative histories, motherhood is sacred and everyday, caregiving is both burden and liberation, and the “womb of the Buddha” pulses at the heart of spiritual awakening. Complementing these fictional pieces are Arai’s personal and scholarly reflections on Buddhist women’s history, as well as several nonfiction narratives of contemporary American Buddhist women whose struggles and triumphs reveal a striking continuity with the ancestors who preceded them.
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Track 2: Resting in Awareness
Mar 2500:46:58Tap to summarizeTrack 2: Resting in Awareness The audio files included here offer guided awareness meditations based on Dudjom Lingpa’s Dzogchen meditation guide. These audio files accompany the book Releasing the Knot of the Mind, copyright © 2026 by Anam Thubten.
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Track 1: Shamatha and Vipashyana
Mar 2500:44:37Tap to summarizeTrack 1: Shamatha and Vipashyana The audio files included here offer guided awareness meditations based on Dudjom Lingpa’s Dzogchen meditation guide. These audio files accompany the book Releasing the Knot of the Mind, copyright © 2026 by Anam Thubten.
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Announcing This Very Moment
Oct 2400:01:15Tap to summarizeShambhala Publications is excited to announce an additional podcast that you can find on your favorite podcast aoo by searching for "This Very Moment." In this new podcast, Ivan Bercholz, co-owner of Shambhala Publications, speaks with influential figures about the origins of their spiritual journey. Delve into the stories that have shaped these individuals into who they are today. Hear about formative childhood experiences, influential teachers, songs that rocked their world, times of despair and triumph, books that opened their consciousness, and so much more. In the first two episodes, Ivan Bercholz (co-owner of Shambhala Publications) queries John Canti, a founding member of the Padmakara Translation Group and Senior Editor at 84000 about the path that has led him to This Very Moment. Packed with amazing, surprising and often humorous stories of some of the great masters of the 2th century I think you will find it incredibly worthwhile. And there are lots more on the way. This original Shambhala Publications podcast channel will continue with occasional talks and conversations
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Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche on Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk
Oct 2401:10:32Tap to summarizeOne of the greatest Dzogchen Masters of the late 20th and early 21st century was Khangsar Tenpa'i Wangchuk. Shambhala Publications is publishing his Collected Works, translated by the Padmakara Translation Group. The third volume on Longchenpa's Cho Ying Dzod, comes out in January 2026. Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche gave a series of oral transmissions for these texts and in this recording, we collected his teaching and on-the-fly translations of some of the passages that moved him from the first volume of the Collected Works. We hope you will find this as irresistible as we do. For the books in this series, see http://shmb.la/ktw-author
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Francesca Freemantle at Watkins
Jul 2001:11:11Tap to summarizeFrancesca Freemantle gave this talk at Watkins Books in London in June, 2025. This talk covers a lot of terrain, but most of all, it explores the geography where life and death, meditation, music, art, and literature all meet. We hope you enjoy it.
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04 Settling Into Sound read by John Makransky
May 9, 202500:06:34Tap to summarize04 Settling Into Sound read by John Makransky by Shambhala Publications
Transcribe →12 Field of Care Meditation as Basis of Inclusive Mode read by John Makransky
May 9, 202500:13:44Tap to summarize12 Field of Care Meditation as Basis of Inclusive Mode read by John Makransky by Shambhala Publications
Transcribe →20 Tong-len Meditation 1, Supported by Compassionate Presence to Feelings: Taking Your Own Painful Feelings into Compassion read by John Makransky
May 9, 202500:08:44Tap to summarize20 Tong-len Meditation 1, Supported by Compassionate Presence to Feelings: Taking Your Own Painful Feelings into Compassion read by John Makransky by Shambhala Publications
Transcribe →22 A Meditation for Extending Compassion to Those Suffering Injustices and to Those In Opposition read by John Makransky
May 9, 202500:13:34Tap to summarize22 A Meditation for Extending Compassion to Those Suffering Injustices and to Those In Opposition read by John Makransky by Shambhala Publications
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