Stephan Beyer (University of Wisconsin). "Religious Symbolism in Tibetan Masked Dance." 1975.

David Carrasco (University of Colorado). "A Fearful Symmetry: Aztec Temple, Aztec Sky." 1985.

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

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

Herbert Fingarette (University of California, Santa Barbara). "Can There Be Life Without Suffering?" Three lectures, 1977.

Michael Friedrich (Hamburg University). "Perceptions of Chinese Buddhism in the East and West." 2004.

Luiz Gomez (University of Michigan). "Three Buddhist Creeds: Approaches to the Interpretation of Buddhist Doctrinal Formulae." Three lectures, 1983.

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

Padmanah Jaini (University of Michigan). "Omniscience and Salvation in the Atheistic Religions of India." Three lectures, 1971.

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

Joseph Kitagawa (University of Chicago). "Religion in Japanese Culture." Two lectures, 1973; three lectures, 1974.

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

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

Donald Monro (University of Michigan). "The Concept of Man in Communist China and Chinese Educational Theory." Four lectures, 1970.

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

David Nivison (Stanford University). "Investigations in Chinese Philosophy." Three lectures, 1980. "Golden Rule Arguments in Chinese Philosophy." On the occasion of his accession to the Evans-Wentz Chair, 1984.

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

Frank Reynolds (University of Chicago). "Cosmology and Salvation in Theravada Buddhism." 1972.

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

Benjamin Schwartz (Harvard University). "Ancient Chinese Religion: Some Comparative Perspectives." 1987.

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

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

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

John Strong (Bates College). "Buddhist Relics in Comparative Perspective." 2003.

Frank Waters (independent scholar). "Symbols and Sacred Mountains." 1981.

Holmes Welch (Harvard University). "Facades of Religion in China." 1969.

Yanagida Seizan (Kyoto University). "Early Ch'an and the Lotus Sutra." 1989.

Lee Yearley (Stanford University). "Classical Confucians and Traditional Christians." 1978. "Confrontations Among Religions and New Religious Virtues." On the occasion of his accession to the Evans-Wentz Chair, 1993.

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

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Symposia & Conferences

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

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

"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.

"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.

"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.

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

"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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