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The new issue of JAOS, 145.1 (2025), is now available online at lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... (and in print soon). Here is the East Asia content for this issue, which I edited. Sinology 📚🀄️ @aos-site.bsky.social 1/

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#ManuscriptMonday nazi hunting edition. First 2 folios of The Conquest of Germany: a modern narrative in which the mythic Tibetan warrior hero Gesar of Ling travels to Germany (phyi gling 'jar) to fight Hitler's reich. It was written by the Eighth Khamtrul Rinpoche (1931-1980). 1/

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There's more amazing photos in the article. "Scientists do not know exactly why starlings form murmurations, though they are thought to offer collective protection against predators, such as falcons. The phenomenon can last from just a few seconds to 45 minutes." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/s...

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It was a pleasure guiding Matthew Bell @matthewjbell.Bsky.social from The World around Yasaka Shrine to discuss the difficulties and opportunities Kyoto religious sites face due to increased tourism. #Shinto #神社巡り #八坂神社 #祇園

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Happy to have contributed to this large new volume: The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia. My chapter is on the 19th Century interactions between missionaries and local peoples in Japan: link.springer.com/referencewor...

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Labyrinth-like Heart Sutra drawn in the shape of a pagoda. The unicursal text flows around the entire image staring and finishing at the doorway where Guanyin sits. A handful of these dated to the 9th century were found inside the hidden library cave of Dunhuang in 1908. #manuscriptmonday 🗃️ 🀄️📚

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Inspired by @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social's manuscript that was never meant to be read, here's another: a long consecration inscription on the back of a Tibetan portable scroll painting (thangka) of Milarepa, in the shape of a stūpa. #ManuscriptMonday 1/

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I appreciated this post from @mahabali.bsky.social: blog.mahabali.me/educational-.... She reviews the reasons typically given for resisting AI in education and notes that some of these reasons might change as the AI landscape changes.

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Labyrinth-like Heart Sutra drawn in the shape of a pagoda. The unicursal text flows around the entire image staring and finishing at the doorway where Guanyin sits. A handful of these dated to the 9th century were found inside the hidden library cave of Dunhuang in 1908. #manuscriptmonday 🗃️ 🀄️📚

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Some manuscripts are never meant to be read, at least not by human eyes. This 13th-century statue of Prince Shōtoku from Harvard University was filled with manuscripts, including prayers by nuns, that were only discovered 700 years later. #manuscriptmonday harvardartmuseums.org/tour/603/

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Ryuichi Yamashiro. Forest. 1954 www.moma.org/collection/w...

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A rare and threatened #fungus recorded in England for only the second time since 1876. The willow blister fungus is included on the World's 100 most threatened species list. #fungi #fungifriends www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The Humble Neighborhood Library: Why It Should Be Part of Your Book-Enthusiasm-Generating Plan

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Fun book discovery: "Eating and drinking images may seem like an anomalous notion but, since antiquity...people have swallowed down frescoes, icons, engravings, eucharistic hosts stamped with images, heraldic wafers, marzipan figures, and other sculpted dishes." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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For those who collect things: “The more I got, the more I could see how different these once identical objects had become,” ... “I didn’t know where it was going when I started other than that I wanted at least enough to see the differences between them. Then it just kept going and I can’t stop.”

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Great to hear from @shelleytrower.bsky.social recently. It reminded me of the beautiful and insightful Living Libraries project she lead in 2019/20. I was lucky enough to be involved in a small way and it is still a wonderful window into libraries as seen by the people working in and using them.

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France in 2000, as envisaged in 1899. Some tech is wonderfully prescient: we've versions of Zoom, a vacuum cleaner, drone deliveries. Other visions less so, particularly those anticipating a life beneath the waves, of underwater croquet + whale buses... publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

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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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Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

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The "Heart Sutra for the Blind" (Mekura shinkyō) is a pictorial/rebus based rendering of the Buddhist Heart Sutra. It allows illiterate ("blind") Japanese to recite the text. The version here is from 1795. 👇 #ManuscriptMonday 🗃️ kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/20002...

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I have just published a translation of another buddhist apocryphon on my blog 生天經(偽造) The Scripture on birth in the Heavens edwardwhite123.blogspot.com/2025/02/budd...

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A beautiful Qing-era robe covered in Buddhist figures held by the Minneapolis Institute of Art collections.artsmia.org/search/42.8....

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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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Moon x Venus over San Diego Central Library 📚 🔭

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The small Voodoo Museum in New Orleans was a surprise. Lots of items with detailed information and discussion of modern voodoo lineage in New Orleans.

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it's absolute amateur-hour over here. Just kindergarten-tier soupery, all across the board. Intramural-league, on its best day.

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This is a succint and helpful article on using generative AI for students by students: ai.duke.edu/wp-content/u.... It's authored by a group of Duke U. students, with assistance from @remikalir.bsky.social, who shared it over on LinkedIn. ai.duke.edu/wp-content/u...

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"Material Catholic Afterlives," our new article, is out now! If you don't have access and would like a copy just let me know. It was such a pleasure to do this with Alyssa! muse.jhu.edu/pub/16/article…

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An 1844 Japanese map of lower California coast from New Stories about America (Amerika shinwa 亜墨新話). A decade before the "opening" of Japan, a Japanese sailor lost at sea was saved by a Spanish galleon and brought to Baja California in 1842. #ManuscriptMonday 🗃️

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Exciting new guest edited issue of _Nidan_ on Material Religion, Assemblage, and the Agency of Things in South Asia hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/nid...

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Available now! Open-access Winter 2024 issue of Teaching History: A Journal of Methods. Special section "Teaching History in the Age of Generative AI," guest editor Julia Gossard. 🗃️ #skystorians #BlueSkyStorians #SoTL #SocialStudies #THAJM openjournals.bsu.edu/teachinghist...

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