Blue Beryl

Introducing Season 1 "Buddhist Medicine," with Pierce Salguero & Lan Li

November 06, 2022 Dr. Pierce Salguero Season 1 Episode 1
Blue Beryl
Introducing Season 1 "Buddhist Medicine," with Pierce Salguero & Lan Li
Show Notes

Meet your host Dr. Pierce Salguero and producer/editor Dr. Lan Li as we inaugurate the Blue Beryl podcast and kick off our first season dedicated to Buddhist medicine. We discuss Pierce's background as a practitioner of Theravada Buddhism and traditional Thai medicine, some interesting experiences he had at Thai temples and meditation centers, and his work as an academic researcher of Buddhist medicine globally. We also chat about tensions between scholarship and practice, our previous multimedia collaborations related to Buddhism and Asian medicine, as well as our goals for the first season of the podcast.

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