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This fellowship program provides one-year grants to graduate students at North American universities in order to support them in their pursuit of dissertation research focused specifically on Tibetan Buddhism. Dissertation work must include significant textual work on Tibetan Buddhist primary sources and include translation into English. Two grants of $35,000 are available each year.  

Dear Colleagues,

I’m currently working on an early ninth-century Japanese text, which references Yakushi's (Bhaiṣajyaguru) 琉璃 Pure Land. I had for a long time translated 琉璃 as lapis lazuli, but I’ve been cautioned by several people that this is incorrect and instead should be beryl, which apparently (and I’m outside of my linguistic comfort zone here) has etymological roots with vaidūrya. Beryl over lapis lazuli seems to be the standard these days from what I can tell.

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