Annabella Pitkin is associate professor of Buddhism/East Asian religions and director of the Asian Studies Program at Lehigh University. Pitkin’s wide-ranging research spans classical and contemporary Tibetan Buddhism, East Asian religion and pop culture, and Buddhist social and ecological movements. Her research focuses on Tibetan Buddhist modernity, Buddhist ideals of renunciation, miracle narratives, and Buddhist biographies. She is on the editorial committee of the online database Treasury of Lives: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalaya.Pitkin is a member of the review committee for the Rubin Institute.
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.