An Upward Spiral
A short teaching from the Anguttara Nikaya on the spiral path to freedom
Maria Heim
Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfield Crosby Professor in Religion at Amherst College and a Guggenheim fellow. Her books include How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go (co-authored by Jay Garfield and Robert Sharf), Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India, and a translation of The Questions of Milinda. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Revisiting ‘The Questions of Milinda’
Scholar Maria Heim discusses how treating Buddhist texts as literature can enhance our perception and hone our attention.
Can Language Shape Human Experience?
A new book considers 177 classical Indian terms for emotions—from simmering wrath to six kinds of compassion—to explore how Buddhist texts expand our capacity to feel.
Podcasts
A Buddhist Guide to Understanding Emotion
Scholar Maria Heim discusses how the Buddhist psychology of emotions can offer us a different way of observing and relating to our feelings—and, in the process, bring about a sense of freedom.
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The Greek King and the Buddhist Monk
Scholar Maria Heim discusses her new translation of The Questions of Milinda, a classic Buddhist text that tells the story of a transformative philosophical discussion between an Indo-Greek king and a Buddhist monk.
Listen Now on Tricycle | Apple Podcasts | Spotify
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