Buddhism is not widely known as a religion of gender-equality. But the early the discourses show repeatedly that the Buddha had the deepest kindness and respect for women, as particularly evident in his treatment of the nun's Sangha. (repodcast 12/15/2023, originally podcast 5/29/2020)
Unmasking the world
Whose body and mind?
Seclusion, Samādhi and Jhāna
Observables and their contingencies
Introduction to Satipatthana Rethought
Contemplations of non-self
On Buddhist ethics
Samādhi in the earliest texts.
Was the Buddha a biologist?
What is the Buddha-Sasana?
A history of emptiness
The Buddha’s Method 2/2: insubstantial and conditional
The Buddha’s Method 1/2: practical and subjective
What did the Buddha think of women?(2/2)
The four noble truths
The seven awakening factors
The sixfold sphere
The five aggregates
The five hindrances
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