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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 7 August - 14 August
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
7 August 2017 to 14 August 2017. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ANTHROPOLOGY
RESOURCE> Visualization of Zotero Buddhist Studies Bibliography with VOSviewer: (2) Keyword tagging styles and conventions
Colleagues,
When adding new materials to the Zotero Buddhism bibliography (especially when importing from other databases, such as WorldCat) it is important to check each entry and fix spelling, punctuation, etc., as such databases usually contain a high frequency of errors.
RESOURCE> Visualization of Zotero Buddhist Studies Bibliography with VOSviewer: (1) Introduction
Dear Colleagues,
Some of you will recall my having initiated, a few years back, an online, collaborative, open and free bibliographical project for Buddhist Studies using the Zotero bibliography tool. I initially seeded this database with about 5,000 entries from my personal bibliographical collection, and, along with a few others, have been steadily adding to it, such that it presently contains over 9,000 entries.
CFP> Pure Land Journal
The editors of The Pure Land (http://www.iasbs.org/pure-land-journal/), journal of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Buddhist Studies, invite all participants of the 2013 and 2015 biennial meetings in Vancouver, BC, and Berkeley, CA, to submit their previously unpublished work for consideration.
CONFERENCE > 2017-18 Winter Program: Buddhism and East Asian Cultures
2017-18 Winter Program: Buddhism and East Asian Cultures
Buddhism and East Asian Cultures: An Intensive Program of Lectures Series, Conference/Forum, and Fieldwork
2017-18年度 佛教與東亞文化國際研修班： 講座系列，研討會／論壇，與參訪
NEW BOOK> Social and Economic Dimensions in Early Buddhism by Oliver Abenayake
I would like to bring to the attention of the community the publication of a book by my former teacher, Prof. Oliver Abeynayake:
JOBS> Position in Contemporary Chinese Studies at HUJI
Dear friends and colleagues,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has announced a search for a tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese studies. Priorities incline to political subjects, but all options are open and we encourage specialists in Buddhism, and Chinese religions more generally, to apply. Please follow the link in the following notice:
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 31 July - 7 August
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
31 July 2017 to 7 August 2017. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism.
NEW BOOK> Rethinking the Buddha in paperback
Dear friends and colleagues,
I thought some of you may be interested to learn that my book, Rethinking the Buddha: Early Buddhist Philosophy as Meditative Perception (Cambridge, 2014) has recently been issued in paperback, so that it is now available at a more reasonable price. This is a brief description of its contents:
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