Center Research Fellows

Ari Borrell (Columbia), ARC Visiting Researcher, religion in the Sung
Angelika Cedzich (Depaul University), ARC Visiting Fellow, Taoist studies
Egil Fronsdal (Sati Center for Buddhist Studies), Affiliate Scholar, Buddhist studies
Henry Glassman (Religious Studies), Doctoral Fellow, Japanese Buddhism
Mark Gonnerman (Religious Studies), ARC Doctoral Fellow, American Buddhism
Hashimoto Eijû (Komazawa University), Visiting Researcher, Zen Buddhism
Linda Hess (UC-Davis and Religious Studies), ARC Visiting Fellow, Hinduism
Ishii Seijun (Komazawa University), Visiting Fellow (spring term), Zen Buddhism
Sonya Lee (Chicago), Visiting Graduate Fellow, Buddhist art history
Richard Payne (Institute for Buddhist Studies), Affiliate Scholar, Shingon Buddhism

Publication

Michel Strickmann. Chinese Magical Medicine. Edited by Bernard Faure.

SCBS inaugurated the Asian Religions & Cultures (ARC) initiative, in cooperation with the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and the Department of Religious Studies. With financial support from the university's President's Fund and the School of Humanities and Sciences, the interdisciplinary initiative is dedicated to encouraging understanding of Asian humanities both on the campus and in the community.

SCBS Colloquia

"Ritual and Iconography in Japanese Buddhism"

Buddhist Studies Seminar Lectures

"Tibetan Buddhism"

SCBS Lectures

Jan Nattier (Indiana), "Arhats in the Pure Land: A New Look at the Sravaka Vehicle in Early Mahayana Sutras" (November 1)

Valerie Hansen (Yale), "Tracing the Route of Buddhism Along the Silk Road" (January 28)

Neil McMullin (Toronto), "Options in an Age of Degenerating Expectations: Genshin's Ojoyoshu and Passed-over Court Bureaucrats" (April 7)

Paul Harrison (Canterbury), "Buddhist Visions of Perfection: Interpreting the Earliest Sources of the Sukhavati Tradition" (April 11, Evans-Wentz Lecture, with Religious Studies)

Dale Wright (Occidental), "Impermanence and Historicity in the Buddhist Thought of Enlightment" (April 21)

SCBS Conferences and Symposia

"Dogen Zen and Its Relevance for Our Time" (October 23-24, with Sotoshu and Eiheiji)

"Sôtô Zen" (October 25-26, with Sotoshu)

"The Buddhist Experience: Facets of a Religion" (April 29, Green Gulch Farm, with Continuing Studies Program)

ARC Conference

"Early Indian Religions: Interactions" (October 9-10, Evans-Wentz Conference, with Religious Studies)

ARC Lectures

"Chinese Healing Arts, Culture and Politics." Lecture series. Cosponsored with CEAS. (Autumn)

"Indian Ritual and Iconography." Lecture series. Cosponsored with Society for Art and Cultural Heritage of India. (Winter and Spring)

"The Silk Road." Lecture series. Cosponsored with Inner Asia/Silk Road Study Group. (Winter and Spring)

"From Partition to Ayodhya Demolition." Lecture series. Cosponsored with South Asia Initiative. (Spring)

"The Golden Age of Chinese Archeology." Asian Art Museum docent slide presentation. Co-sponsored with CEAS, Stanford Staffers, Asian Staff Forum (summer)

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