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Dear colleagues,

The following PDF files of our publications become available:

Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University for the academic year 2018 (= ARIRIAB), Volume XXII (2019)

A PDF file is now available at the following link: http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/publication/aririab.html

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The Mahāvastu. A New Edition. Volume III.

Ed. by Katarzyna Marciniak.

Dear Friends,

I am pleased to share our latest release, Seeing the Sacred in Samsara: An Illustrated Guide to the Eighty-Four Mahāsiddhas by Donald Lopez.

AFGHANISTAN is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Edinburgh University Press: https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/afg.

Dear friends and colleagues,

You are cordially invited to the following lectures at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University in Tokyo.

Dr. Jonathan A. Silk (Professor, Leiden University)

Theme: A Window into Sino-Tibetan Pure Land Practices at Dunhuang

Dr. Vincent Tournier (Maître de conférences, École française d’Extrême-Orient)

Theme: Buddhist Lineages along the “Southern Routes”

Date: 29, May, 2019

Time: 1300-1700 (JST)

Place: Meeting Room 8, 12th Floor, Global Square, Soka University

Dear Colleagues,

On May 3-4, Brown University will host a conference entitled “Buddhist Geoaesthetics” to discuss the history of Buddhist arts, thought, and practices in their relationships to ecological and geological processes, bringing together diverse disciplinary and geographic perspectives.

The Second International Conference on Buddhism and Law will be held from Thursday, September 26^th to Sunday, September 29, 2019 at The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York.

Dear colleagues,

The speaker for the April meeting of the Kyoto Asian Studies Group is Michael Jamentz, who will present “Re-envisioning the Vanished Elephant: Fugen Faith in Medieval Japan” (see abstract below).

Crosspost from H-Buddhism

Discussion published by Richard Payne on Saturday, April 6, 2019 

We are pleased to announce the publication of:

Dear Colleagues,

This is a polite reminder about the 2019 ASRSA conference at UNISA (Pretoria). We are pleased to announce that the Keynote Speaker will be Prof. Birgit Meyer from Utrecht University.

The deadline has been extended to 10 April. Please see the CfA below and on our website http://asrsa.org

Papers on Buddhism are welcome.

Kind regards,

Elisabetta Porcu

ASRSA Secretary

Dr Elisabetta Porcu

University of Cape Town

Department of Religious Studies

Dear Friends and Colleagues,