Buddhism and the Senses

What is Bad About Bad Smell? Relativity, Relationship, and Revelation in the Buddhist Olfactory Imagination. (Published in Buddhism and the Senses. Donald S. Lopez and Robert DeCaroli, eds. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications. 2024.)

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Learning to Walk Softly

Learning to Walk Softly: Intersecting Insect Lifeworlds in Everyday Buddhist Monastic Life. (Published in Animals and Religion. David Aftandilian, Barbara Ambros, and Aaron S. Gross, eds. London: Routledge. 2024.)

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The Personal and the Planetary

The Personal and the Planetary: Buddhism, Climate Change, and Anthropocene Time. (Published in Religions: The Question of Buddhist Environmentalism. Francisca Cho, ed. 2023.)

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Chan Buddhism in the United States

Chan is a vibrant practice tradition in America. Lina Verchery recommends four communities. (Lion’s Roar Magazine, 2022)

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A Profoundly Social Solitude

This new documentary film about Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is ostensibly about the spiritual work of solitude, but there is another message that rises to the surface: that solitude, paradoxically, is consummately social. (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, 2021)

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An Alternative to the "Westernization" Paradigm

An Alternative to the “Westernization” Paradigm and Buddhist Global Imaginaires. (Published in Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West. Harding, Hori, Soucy, eds. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.)

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Rebirth and the Transspecies Imagination in Chinese Buddhism

Both Like and Unlike: Rebirth, Olfaction and the Transspecies Imagination in Modern Chinese Buddhism. (Published in Religions: Reflections on Animals in Asian Religions and Culture. Reiko Ohnuma, Barbara Ambros, eds. Vol. 10.6, 2019.)

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How to Film Buddhism, According to Buddhism

Filmmaker and scholar Lina Verchery discusses what film can teach us about perception, reality, and Buddhist thought. (Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, 2019)

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Seeing and Being in Buddhism and Film

Blindness, Blinking, and Boredom: Seeing and Being in Buddhism and Film. (Published in Religions: Practicing Buddhism Through Film. Francisca Cho, ed. Vol. 9.8, 2019.)

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Seeing Like the Buddha, by Francisca Cho

Book Review of Seeing Like the Buddha: Enlightenment Through Film by Francisca Cho. Read on H-Buddhism Reviews.

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A History of Cultuic Images in China

French-to-English translation of A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan by Alain Arrault (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2019).

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New Perspectives on Globalized Buddhism

The Avatamsaka Sagely Monastery (華嚴聖寺) and New Perspectives on Globalized Buddhism in Canada. (Published in Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends. Jason Zuidema, ed. Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2015.)

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Bitter Practice, Sweet Heart 苦盡甘來.

Bitter Practice, Sweet Heart. Ku jin gan lai 苦盡甘來. Translated into Chinese by Yihuan Shi and Lina Verchery. (Published in Vajra Bodhi Sea: A Monthly Journal of Orthodox Buddhism. 536, 2015.)

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Imaging the Ineffable

Imaging the Ineffable: Representation and Reality in Religion and Film. Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Conference Proceedings. Lina Verchery, Zoe Kelly-Nacht, eds., 2015.

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On Fieldwork and Film

Reflections on Fieldwork and Film: Studying the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (法界佛教總會) in Malaysia. (Published in Eastern Horizon. Vol. 45, 2015.)

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Ontologies of Emptiness

Ethics of Inscrutability: Ontologies of Emptiness in Buddhist Film. (Published in Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Kate Crosby, Andrew Skilton, Almut-Barbara Renger, eds. Vol. 14.1, 2015.)

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Buddhism Through the Lens

Buddhism Through the Lens: A Study of the Study of Buddhism Through Film. (Published in Studying Religions in Practice, Buddhism Volume. John Harding, ed. London: Routledge, 2014.)

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The Woodenfish Program and Global Buddhism

The Woodenfish Program: Fo Guang Shan, Canadian Youth and a New Generation of Buddhist Missionaries. (Published in Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada. John Harding, Victor Hori, Alexander Soucy, eds. Toronto: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.)

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Buddhism and the Senses

Learning to Walk Softly

The Personal and the Planetary

Chan Buddhism in the United States

A Profoundly Social Solitude

An Alternative to the "Westernization" Paradigm

Rebirth and the Transspecies Imagination in Chinese Buddhism

How to Film Buddhism, According to Buddhism

Seeing and Being in Buddhism and Film

Seeing Like the Buddha, by Francisca Cho

A History of Cultuic Images in China

New Perspectives on Globalized Buddhism

Bitter Practice, Sweet Heart 苦盡甘來.

Imaging the Ineffable

On Fieldwork and Film

Ontologies of Emptiness

Buddhism Through the Lens

The Woodenfish Program and Global Buddhism

lina.verchery@vuw.ac.nz

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Sort by: Peer-Reviewed Academic Writing | General Interest | Translations and Other

Buddhism and the Senses

Learning to Walk Softly

The Personal and the Planetary

Chan Buddhism in the United States

A Profoundly Social Solitude

An Alternative to the "Westernization" Paradigm

Rebirth and the Transspecies Imagination in Chinese Buddhism

How to Film Buddhism, According to Buddhism

Seeing and Being in Buddhism and Film

Seeing Like the Buddha, by Francisca Cho

A History of Cultuic Images in China

New Perspectives on Globalized Buddhism

Bitter Practice, Sweet Heart 苦盡甘來.

Imaging the Ineffable

On Fieldwork and Film

Ontologies of Emptiness

Buddhism Through the Lens

The Woodenfish Program and Global Buddhism

lina.verchery@vuw.ac.nz

Sort by: Peer-Review ed A cademic Writing | Gen eral Interest | Transla tions and Other