Shodhin Geiman, M.A., Ph.D.
Senior Research Professor of Philosophy
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A.B. Xavier University 1983 Université de Paris-Sorbonne A.M. Washington University 1987 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Ph.D. Washington University 1988 Ruhr-Universität Bochum
CONTRIBUTIONS
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2023 Obstacles to Stillness: Thoughts, Hindrances, and Self-Surrender in Evagrius and the Buddha, Fortress Press
2022 Alone in a World of Wounds: A Dharmic Response to the Ills of Sentient Beings, Cascade Books
2019 “Facing the Seeming Pointlessness of Aspirant Life: Acedia and Thīna-Middha,” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 54, 562–85.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
2025 “‘The Whole of the Holy Life:’ On Spiritual Friendship in the Dharma,” Mystical Theology Network Meeting, Antwerp
2024 “On the Impermanence and Frailty of the Body in the Buddhadharma,” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies Conference, St. Ottilien
2024 “Acting as a Buddha, Acting as Christ: Reconsidering the Action/Non-Action Debate Around Contemplative Life, Mystical Theology Network Meeting, Oxford
2023 – “‘This Earth Where We Stand is the Pure Lotus Land’: Revisiting the Purported Boundary between Zen and Pure Land Buddhism,” UK Association for Buddhist Studies, St. Andrews
2022 “‘Justice’ is a Word not Uttered by the Wise,” XIXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Seoul
2022 “Guardians of the Way and the World: Penthos and Hiri-Ottappa as Challenges for Buddhist-Christian Dialogue,” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies, Salzburg
2021 “Two Arrows Aiming at Absolutely Nothing: Imageless Prayer in Evagrius and Signless Meditation (ānimitta-samādhi) in the Buddhadharma,” Mystical Theology Network, Virtual
2020 “Why Renunciation (Still) Matters: Lessons from the Buddhist and Desert Christian Traditions,” Contemplative Studies Unit, AAR, Virtual
2019 “On the Seeming Pointlessness of Aspirant Life: Acedia and Thīna-Middha,” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies, St. Ottilien
INTERESTS
- Buddhist Thought
- Buddhist-Christian Studies
- Modern Philosophy
- 20th Century European Philosophy
COURSES TAUGHT
- Culture, Identity and Values
- The Good Life
- Buddhist Philosophy & Practice
- Environmental Philosophy & Ethics
- Modern Philosophy
- Philosophy of Religion
- History of 20th Century European Philosophy
