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Scholar of Chinese religion (mainly Buddhism) and within that scope especially interested in literature and trees at present
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“The fires gutted the 1,300-year-old Gounsa temple in Uiseong city”

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"For Western scholars of China, the era before the pandemic now feels like a distant golden age." Yanzhong Huang on the withering of academic engagement with China thanks to domestic factors in both countries, as well as heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington.

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The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

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I love our library

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Recently published by Natasha Heller: Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera...

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Thomas Jefferson's Monticello design notebook from 1771 contains a description for a "Chinese temple" - it was never built. Loosely based on Chinese Buddhist pagodas, this would have been an open air gazebo (sometimes also called a pagoda). #ManuscriptMondays 🗃️

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@arianam.bsky.social could you add me to the Buddhism starter pack?

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Writing a book on East Asian Buddhism and need support to finish it? Apply for the Kuroda Institute Manuscript Completion Grant, which provides funds for developmental editing, line editing for non-native speakers, manuscript workshops, child/eldercare, and more. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

New book - Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan Natasha Heller reveals "how contemporary picturebooks reframe Buddhism and offer fresh perspectives on its teachings and ideals of family for both children and adults" uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera... #histed

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What a lovely way to mark the passage of time in deep winter

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Now available! An innovative and sophisticated study, this book is ideal for university classroom use, and it also makes the GATELESS BARRIER accessible to other first-time readers, Buddhist practitioners, and scholars. https://buff.ly/3ZRENME

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Famously a favorite food of the Buddha

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