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This is a short excerpt from the discussion “Philosophy and the Practice of Zen Buddhism”

Bret W. Davis is Professor and T. J. Higgins, S.J. Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. His authored and edited books include, among others, “Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit” (2007), “Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School” (2011), and “The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy” (2020). His latest book “Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism” was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.

Leah Kalmanson is an Associate Professor and the Bhagwan Adinath Professor of Jain Studies at the University of North Texas. She works at the intersection of comparative philosophy and postcolonial theory, with special interests in the liberational philosophies of China’s Song dynasty and related discourses on issues of cultivation and transformation in philosophy more broadly, both personal and socio-political. She is the author of “Cross-Cultural Existentialism” (2020) and co-author (with Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach) of “A Practical Guide to World Philosophies” (2021).

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