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Dear Colleagues,

I call your attention to the next lecture in Mangalam Research Center's online Spotlight Lecture series (Buddhism and the Natural World), "Buddhist Elemental Thought across Time, Place, and Genre" with Devin Zuckerman, PhD candidate, University of Virginia, October 3rd, 3pm-4:30pm PDT (UTC-7). Details and registration (free) on Eventbrite.

REMINDER: CFP (due Oct 2): Emerging Scholars in Asian Studies (with award money and travel reimbursement)

Faculty of the Asian Studies Program of the University of Delaware invites applications from emerging scholars to present their research on topics related to Asian Studies at the University of Delaware (Newark, DE).  By emerging scholars, we refer to graduate students, ABD preferred, or postdoctoral scholars who graduated after April 2021.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the “Seminars in Practical Wisdom for Body and Society” by Kengo Konishi (program-specific senior lecturer, Cultural Anthropology, Uehiro Research Division, IFoHS) and Takahiko Kameyama (Research fellow, Japanese Culture and Philosophy, IFoHS) . With Associate Professor Seiji Kumagai as advisor, we will build an interdisciplinary research platform on the body and society. We will co-host the 3rd International Workshop on Law, Politics, and Ethics in the Himalayas.

This is a reminder about our call for applications. The deadline is October 25th, 2023

The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany offers two PhD scholarships for dissertation projects related to Buddhism.

Deadline for applications: October 25th, 2023
Start of scholarship: Spring, Summer or Autumn 2024
Duration of scholarship: 4 years

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies has been published. The journal is available online at https://chinesebuddhiststudies.org/. Submission and subscription information is available at https://chinesebuddhiststudies.org/submissions/.

Contents:

Contested Visions of the Buddhist Past and the Curious Fate of an Early Medieval Chinese Buddhist Text
Elizabeth Morrison

The Polemics of Passivity and Yuanwu’s Usage of It
Jimmy Yu

We are pleased to announce a publication in two parts in memory of Helmut Krasser (1956-2014) as volume 19 in our Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series:

Vincent Eltschinger, Jowita Kramer, Parimal Patil, Chizuko Yoshimizu (eds.): Burlesque of the Philosophers. Indian and Buddhist Studies in Memory of Helmut Krasser, 2 parts, Bochum: ProjektVerlag, 918 pages

See Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series

The Journal of Chinese Buddhists Studies would like to organize a special issue in 2024 featuring two general themes of Chinese Buddhist monastic institutions and Chinese Buddhist women's experience and practice in premodern or modern periods. The specifics of the topic can cover all aspects of Buddhist thought, practice, social, and institutional life in China, including historical interactions with Buddhist developments in South, East, Central Asia, and the West in modern times. 

This online workshop will explore the agencies of Buddhist women through teaching-oriented presentations on premodern China and Japan. The program is free and open to undergraduate educators and will include presentations from Dr. Kate Lingley (Art History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) and Dr. Lori Meeks (Religion, University of Southern California), followed by a roundtable discussion of the challenges of teaching about women’s agency across historical and cultural differences, as well as strategies for creatively meeting those challenges.

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