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A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
A Chinese-American Buddhist Healer (Pierce Salguero and Kin Cheung)
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Nov 11, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Dr. Pierce Salguero sits down with Kin Cheung, a scholar of contemporary Buddhism at Moravian University. We talk about his research on a Chinese-American community healer who happens to be his father. We discuss how his father’s practice raises challenging questions for scholars, and reveals gaping holes in current academic approaches to Buddhism. Along the way, we talk about how code-switching between different ontologies is a feature of life for Asian Americans, and hear Kin’s father conduct a blessing ritual.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine
Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021)
Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019)
Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020)
Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan)
Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024)
Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020)
Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com.
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Enjoy the conversation! And remember that not all of our episodes are distributed by NBN, so be sure to subscribe to Blue Beryl!
Resources mentioned in this episode:
First installment of Pierce's blog series on Meta Approaches to Asian Medicine
Chenxing Han, Be the Refuge: Raising the Voices of Asian American Buddhists (2021)
Duncan Ryūken Williams, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (2019)
Pierce Salguero, Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources (2020)
Jivaka Project Philadelphia (documentary films on Asian American Buddhism in Philadelphia, by Pierce and Lan)
Pierce Salguero, Kin Cheung, and Susannah Deane, Buddhism and Healing in the Modern World (2024)
Pierce Salguero and Andrew Macomber, Buddhist Healing in Medieval China and Japan (2020)
Dr. Pierce Salguero is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University’s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. www.piercesalguero.com.
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Released:
Nov 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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