1969-1978

I
Holmes Welch
Harvard University
"Facades of Religion in China"
1969

II
Donald Monro
University of Michigan
"The Concept of Man in Communist China and Chinese Educational Theory"
Four lectures
1970

III
Padmanah Jaini
University of Michigan
"Omniscience and Salvation in the Atheistic Religions of India"
Three lectures
1971

IV
Frank Reynolds
University of Chicago
"Cosmology and Salvation in Theravada Buddhism"
1972

V
Joseph Kitagawa
University of Chicago
"Religion in Japanese Culture"
Two lectures
1973

VI
Joseph Kitagawa
University of Chicago
"Religion in Japanese Culture"
Three lectures
1974

VII
Stephan Beyer
University of Wisconsin
"Religious Symbolism in Tibetan Masked Dance"
1975

VIII
Vishwanath Naravane
University of Poona
"Indian Culture: Its Adapatations to the Aryans, to the Muslims, to the West"
1975

IX
Herbert Fingarette
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Can There Be Life Without Suffering?"
Three Lectures
1977

X
Wendy O'Flaherty
University of California, Berkeley
and
Nancy Falk
Western Michigan State University
"Images of Women: South Asia"
Two lectures
1978

XI
Lee Yearley
Stanford University
"Classical Confucians and Traditional Christians"
1978

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1980-1989

XII
David Nivison
Stanford University
"Investigations in Chinese Philosophy"
Three Lectures
1980

XIII
Frank Waters
Independent scholar
"Symbols and Sacred Mountains"
1981

XIV
Anthony Yu
University of Chicago
"Pilgrimage and Allegory in The Journey to the West"
1982

XV
Luiz Gomez
University of Michigan
"Three Buddhist Creeds: Approaches to the Interpretation of Buddhist Doctrinal Formulae"
Three lectures
1983

XVI
David Nivison
Stanford University
On the occasion of his accession to the Evans-Wentz Chair
"Golden Rule Arguments in Chinese Philosophy"
1984

XVII
David Carrasco
University of Colorado
"A Fearful Symmetry: Aztec Temple, Aztec Sky"
1985

XVIII
Lewis Lancaster
University of California, Berkeley
"The Rock Cut buddhist Canon of Fang-Shan: The Making and Preservation of Scripture"
1986

XIX
Benjamin Schwartz
Harvard University
"Ancient Chinese Religion: Some Comparative Perspectives"
1987

XX
Anna Seidel
Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
"Corruptible Body, Incorruptible Body, Substitute Body: Modes of Immortality in China"
1989

XXI
Michel Strickmann
University of California, Berkeley
"Apocalypse in China: Medieval Visions of the World and Its Destiny"
Three lectures
1989

XXII
Yanagida Seizan
Kyoto University
"Early Ch'an and the Lotus Sutra"
1989

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1991-1999

XXIII
Gregory Schopen
University of Indiana
"Archeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of the History of Indian Buddhism"
1991

XXIV
Melford Spiro
University of California, San Diego
"Is the Western Concept of the Self 'Peculiar' Within the Context of World Cultures?"
1992

XXV
Hubert Durt
Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
"The Bodhisattva as Prince: Royal Ideology in Mahayana Buddhism"
1993

XXVI
Lee Yearley
Stanford University
On the occasion of his accession to the Evans-Wentz Chair
"Confrontations Among Religions and New Religious Virtues"
1993

XXVII
David Keightley
University of California, Berkeley
"'Reding' and 'Riting': The Endurance of the Sacred in Neolithic and Bronze-Age China"
1995

XXVIII
"Recent Work in Buddhist Studies"
A symposium with Alan Cole, Steven Collins, Allan Grapard, Matthew Kapstein, Gregory Schopen, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan
1997

XXIX
"New Approaches to Buddhism: Three Recent Works"
A symposium with Steven Collins, Collet Cox, Janet Gyatso, Charles Hallisey, Donald Lopez, and Robert Sharf
1998

XXX
"Buddhist Priests, Kings, and Marginals"
A conference with Abe Ryuichi, Abe Yasurô, David Bialock, Bernard Faure, Allan Grapard, Thomas Hare, Hosokawa Ryoichi, Iyanaga Nobumi, Susan Matisof, Charles Orzech, Fabio Rambelli, Brian Ruppert, Sakurai Yoshiro, and John Strong
1999

XXXI
"Early Indian Religions: Interactions"
A conference with Wendy Donniger, Padmanah Jaini, Patrick Olivelle, Gregory Schopen, Fred Smith, Frits Staal, Kristi Wiley, and Liz Wilson
1999

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2000-present

XXXII
Paul Harrison
University of Canterbury
"Buddhist Visions of Perfection: Interpreting the Earliest Sources of the Sukhavati Tradition"
2000

XXXIII
Victor Mair
University of Pennsylvania
"Of Sheep and Goats and Chinese Values: The Seminal Significance of Ovicaprids"
2002

XXXIV
John Strong
Bates College
"Buddhist Relics in Comparative Perspective"
2003

XXXV
"The Roots of Inner Alchemy"
A conference with Ben Brose, Stephen Bokenkamp, George Clonos, Albert Dien, Monica Esposito, Bernard Faure, Donald Harper, Katô Chie, Mark Lewis, Fabrizio Pregadio, James Robson, Harold Roth, and Haun Saussy
2003

XXXVI
Michael Friedrich
Hamburg University
"Perceptions of Chinese Buddhism in the East and West"
2004

XXXV
"Krishna in Springtime"
A symposium with Edwin Bryant, Tracy Coleman, and Archana Venkatesan
2005

XXXVI
"Sufi Music: South Asian Qawwali and Debates on Music in Islam"
A symposium with Shemeem Burney Abbas, Salman Ahmad, Linda Hess, Scott Kugle, James Newell, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Lorraine Sakata, Natalie Sarrazin, Homayra Ziad
2006

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