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May 2022
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507: Roger Jackson

DUNCAN TRUSSELL FAMILY HOUR
About this episode
Roger Jackson, wonderful author of a new book on reincarnation, joins the DTFH!

Be sure to check out Roger's new book, Rebirth: A Guide to Mind, Karma, and Cosmos in the Buddhist World, available wherever you get your books! Roger has also authored Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by Contemporary Buddhist Scholars (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) and the definitive Mind Seeing Mind: Mahamudra and the Geluk Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism), also available for purchase!

Original music by Aaron Michael Goldberg.

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