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  • 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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