Annabella Pitkin is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhist intellectual history, philosophy, and literature, and associate professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at Lehigh University. Her research explores themes of renunciation, power, and the bodhisattva ideal. She is the author of Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint about the life of the meditator-poet Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (1895–1977). She is on the editorial committee of the Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya, and is a member of the review committee for the Rubin Institute.
Hosted by singer, writer, and frontwoman of the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Kathleen Hanna, season 6 focuses on images of wrathful deities from the Rubin's collection to illuminate their teachings on wrath and fierce compassion.
Hosted by singer, songwriter, and artist Devendra Banhart, season 5 focuses on a painting of the Wheel of Life from the Rubin’s collection to see what it can teach us about the interconnected nature of existence.
We might want to believe that there is a definitive point where some unhealthy patterns have died and new ones have been born, but it’s a continuous cycle of reminders and realizations.
All of this season’s guests share their practices for working with attachment and moving toward a more open relationship with oneself and life as a whole.
Hosted by actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini, season 4 explores the Buddhist concept of attachment and how letting go can transform our experience of the world.
