Center Research Fellows

• Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein (Mellon fellow, Religious Studies), ARC visiting fellow, Islam in China
• Hina Azam (Religious Studies), ARC visiting fellow, Islamic studies
• Shari Epstein (Religious Studies), ARC doctoral fellow, Chinese religions
• Gil Fronsdal (Sati Center for Buddhist Studies), SCBS affiliate scholar, S & SE Asian Buddhism
• Lisa Grumbach (Religious Studies), SCBS doctoral fellow, Japanese Buddhism
• Linda Hess (Lecturer, Religious Studies), ARC faculty fellow, Indian religions (autumn)
• Zudi Jiang (Intel), ARC affiliate scholar, Chinese archeology
• Pauline Lee (Religious Studies), ARC doctoral fellow, Chinese religions
• Michelle Li (IIS postdoctoral fellow), SCBS visiting fellow, Japanese religions
• David Nivison (Religious Studies, emeritus), ARC faculty fellow, Chinese religions
• Okajima Hidetaka (Aichi Gakuen Daigaku), SCBS visiting fellow, Zen studies (spring)
• Richard Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies), SCBS affiliate scholar, Japanese Buddhism
• Fabrizio Pregadio (Visiting professor, Religious Studies), ARC visiting fellow, Daoist studies
• James Robson (Religious Studies), SCBS doctoral fellow, Chinese Buddhism
• Shao Dongfang (visiting professor, Religious Studies), ARC visiting fellow, Chinese religions
• Joel Sahleen (Asian Languages), ARC doctoral fellow, Chinese religions
• Gregory Schopen (UCLA), SCBS visiting fellow, Indian Buddhism (autumn)
• Julia Shaw (Visiting instructor, Religious Studies), SCBS visiting researcher, Indian Buddhist archeology (spring)
• Nancy Stalker (History), SCBS doctoral fellow, Japanese religions

SZTP Website
http://www.stanford.edu/group/scbs/sztp3
Developed and maintained for the Soto Zen Text Project, under the direction of Carl Bielefeldt, with Sarah Fremerman.

Daoist Illustrations Database
An electronic resource for the study of the Daoist canon, under the direction of Fabrizio Pregadio, with Tad Cook and George Clonos. In preparation.

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Conferences

Language & Discourse in the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Green Gulch Farm. (September 14-16; co-sponsored with Institute of Buddhist Studies, GTU)

"Visions and Visualization: Buddhist Praxis on the Silk Road." (March 22; co-sponsored with Institute of Buddhist Studies, GTU)

SCBS Annual Colloquium

Asian Gods and Demons

SCBS Graduate Colloquium

SCBS Lectures

Raoul Birnbaum (UC Santa Cruz). "Buddhist 'Fundamentalists' in 20th & 21st Century China." (October 26)

Kathy Ku (UC Berkeley). "The Nature of Buddhist Art: From Gandhara to Dunhuang and Yungang." (November 2; co-sponsored with Art History)

Alexander von Rospatt (Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley). "The Pravrajya Ordination in the Buddhist Tradition of Nepal." (November 27)

Charles Hallisey (Wisconsin). "Buddhism and Modern Indian Identity: Buddhist Tales in Contemporary Urdu Literature." (March 4)

Urs App (Hanazono). "The Tibet of the Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer." (April 4, with Religious Studies)

Morten Schlütter (UCLA). "The Many Lives of Chan Texts." (May 3)

Naoko Kumada (Cambridge). "Giving, Renunciation, and Power: Buddhism and the Politics of Generosity in Rural Burma." (May 8)

Victor Mair (Pennsylvania). "Of Sheep and Goats and Chinese Values: The Seminal Significance of Ovicaprids." (May 14, Evans-Wentz Lecture, with Religious Studies)

Julia Shaw (Cambridge). "Buddhist Propagation and Religious Change: The Archaeological Setting of Buddhist Monasteries in Central India." (May 31)

Jan Willis (Wesleyan). "Dreaming Me: From Baptist to Buddhist, One Woman's Spiritual Journey." (August 21, with The Dalai Lama Foundation)

SCBS Symposium

"Buddhist Spiritual Practice." (May 11, with Continuing Studies)

SCBS Reading Groups

"Buddhist Monastic Rules in East Asia." Griffith Foulk (Sarah Lawrence). (February 25-March 1)
Shôbôgenzô shin fukatoku. Bielefeldt in charge (spring)

ARC Humanities Center Workshop

Conversion, Comparison, and Genre (Epstein & Rapp in charge)

ARC Lectures

Fabrizio Pregadio (Religious Studies). "Rituals in Early Chinese Alchemy." (November 15; with Religious Studies)

David Nivison (Religious Studies, emeritus) and Shao Dongfang (ARC Fellow)."The Bamboo Annals and the Dating of Early Chinese History." (November 16)

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge). "The Problem of Metaphor in Comparative Perspective." Co-sponsored with Asian Languages, CEAS, Classics, Comparative Literature, Humanities Center, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. (January 18)

Urs App and Monica Esposito (University Media Research Institute, Kyoto). "Dangki: China's Shamans." (April 4)

"Art and Religion on the Silkroad." (Lecture series, with Inner Asia Silkroad Study Group)

Michael Sells (Haverford). "Islam and the West in the Wake of September 11: Beyond the Clash of Civilizations." (May 2, with Religious Studies)

ARC Performances

Stephen Sondheim's "Pacific Overtures". TheatreWorks, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. (August 29-September 23)

Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala Ceremony. Monks of Drepung Monastery. Cantor Art Center. SCBS. (June 12-15, with Cantor Center, Asian Art Museum, Yellow Hat Buddhist Center)

Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Dance. Monks of Drepung Monastery. Monks of Drepung Monastery. (June 13, with Cantor Center, Asian Art Museum, Yellow Hat Buddhist Center)

ARC Workshop
Fabrizio Pregadio (Religious Studies). "The Daoist Illustration Database: A Project Proposal." (November 8)

ARC Conference

"Critical Issues in Islamic Studies." (May 2-3, with Religious Studies.) Convener: Jackie Armijo-Hussein (Religious Studies). Participants: Carl Ernst (UNC), William Graham (Harvard, in abstentia), Sherman Jackson (Michigan), Bruce Lawrence (Duke), Richard Martin (Emory), Barbara Metcalf (UC Davis), Michael Sells (Haverford), Amira Sonbol (Georgetown), John Voll (Georgetown).

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