Center Research Fellows

• Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein (Lecturer, Religious Studies), ARC visiting fellow, Islam in China
• Shari Epstein (Religious Studies), ARC doctoral fellow, Chinese religions (winter & spring)
• Gil Fronsdal (Sati Center for Buddhist Studies), SCBS affiliate scholar, S & SE Asian Buddhism
• Noa Gal (Oxford), SCBS visiting fellow, Theravada 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
• Kumada Naoko (Cambridge), SCBS visiting fellow, Burmese Buddhism
• Sonia Lee (Chicago), SCBS visiting scholar, Chinese Buddhist art (spring)
• Michelle Li (SSFJS postdoctoral fellow), SCBS visiting fellow, Japanese religions
• Richard Martin (Emory), ARC visiting fellow, Islam (winter & spring)
• Okajima Hidetaka (Aichi Gakuin Daigaku), SCBS visiting fellow, Zen studies (autumn & spring)
• Richard Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies), SCBS affiliate scholar, Japanese Buddhism
• Fabrizio Pregadio (Acting associate professor, Religious Studies), ARC visiting fellow, Daoist studies
• Joel Sahleen (Asian Languages), ARC doctoral fellow, Chinese religions
• John Strong (Bates; visiting professor, Religious Studies) SCBS visiting fellow, S Asian Buddhism (spring)

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.

SCBS Computing Workshop
Faculty-student series on information technology in Buddhist studies; Bernard Faure in charge.

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SCBS Lectures

Lectures on South Asian Buddhism. (With Religious Studies)

Lectures on Tibetan Culture.

Manabe Shunsho (Hosen Gakuen Daigaku). "Japanese Esoteric Buddhism and Mandala Art" (in Japanese). (October 18)

Ajarn Sulak Sivaraksa (Sathirakoses-Nagapradeepa Foundation). "The Buddhist Response(s) to 9/11." (January 13, with SLE)

Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Yale). "The Eyes of Michinaga in the Light of Buddha: A Japanese Case Study in Art and Illumination." (March 4, with SSFJS)

Hiroki Kikuchi (Historiographical Instititute, Tokyo). "Revaluating the Genkô-shakusho in the Buddhism of the Kamakura period." (April 22, with SSFJS)

Kojiro Hirose (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka). "Reconsidering Japanese Religious History: The Aum Incident and Blind Culture in Modern Japan." (April 22, with SSFJS)

Rinchen Khando Choegyal and Elizabeth Napper (Tibetan Nuns Project). "Women of Spirit: The Tibetan Nuns Project (TNP)." (May 2, with Tibetan Nuns Project, & Dalai Lama Foundation)

John Strong (Bates). "Buddhist Relics in Comparative Perspective." (May 8, Evans-Wentz Lecture, with Religious Studies)

SCBS Faculty/Graduate Seminar

Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Yale). "Bringing Out Buddha: Iconographies and Iconologies of Buddhist Practice." (March 3-7, with Art, SSFJS, and Religious Studies)

SCBS Conferences

"Practitioners of Reality: A Symposium on Poetry and Buddhism," with Norman Fisher, Michael McClure, and Leslie Scalapino. (May 15, with Stanford Humanities Center Workshop on Contemporary Poetry & Poetics.)

"The Roots of Inner Alchemy." (May 30-31, with Religious Studies)

SCBS/ARC Fellows Colloquium

Okajima Hidetaka (Aichi Gakuin Daigaku). "Religious Consciousness in Contemporary Japan" (in Japanese). (November 13)

Richard Payne (Institute of Buddhist Studies). "Indian Philosophy of Language as Background to Japanese Tantric Practice." (November 20)

David Nivison (Philosophy, Asian Languages, & Religious Studies, emeritus), Shao Dongfang (Fo Guang University), & Jiang Zudi (Intel, ARC fellow). "Debates on the Xia-Shang-Zhou Chronology Project." (December 4)

Bernard Faure. "From Womb to Cosmos: The Gods of Destiny in Asian Religions." (May 1, with Religious Studies)

SCBS/ARC Graduate Colloquium

Julius Tsai (Religious Studies). "Videos from the Field: Taoist Ritual in Taiwan." (November 11, with Religious Studies)

Noa Gal (Oxford). "Some Remarks on the Theravadin Notion of Causation." (February 5)

Tad Cook (Religious Studies). "Pivots of Meaning in the Teaching of the Way: Buddho-Taoist Palimpsests c. 700 C.E." (February 19)

Sarah Fremerman (Religious Studies). "Making Wishes Come True: Japanese Transformations of Nyoirin Kannon." (April 30)

SCBS/BCAS Film Series

Buddhism in Film (Part I)
Buddhism in Film (Part II)
Buddhism in Film (Part III)
Developed by Mark Mancall and Greg Watkins. (With Religious Studies, History, & Kannondo)

SCBS Reading Groups

Linji lu. Pregadio in charge (autumn)
Kôzen gokoku ron. Bielefeldt in charge (winter)
Medieval Daoist Texts. Pregadio in charge (winter)

ARC Lectures

Sacred Art in South & Southeast Asia. (With Asian Art Museum)

Lectures in South Asian Studies. (With School of Humanities and Sciences)

Al Dien (Asian Languages emeritus). "Life and Arts Along the Silk Road." (November 3, with Stanford Lively Arts)

Lakshmi Kannan (Tamil author). Reading from her poetry and prose. (November 25)

Farhad Azad (Society of Afghan Professionals). "Afghanistan: A Cultural Journey." (January 27)

Hafez Modirzadeh (San Jose State). "Ancestral Echoes of the Persian Musical Diaspora: World Connections in Iranian Musical History." (February 10)

Kazuya Ishii (Fulbright Fellow, Economics). "Religious and Economic Views of Mahatma Gandhi. (May 21)

ARC Symposium

"Music of the Silk Road." (November 2, with CEAS, CREEES, Music, Stanford Lively Arts, & IASSG)

ARC Performance

Melody of China. "Music of the Silk Road." (November 2, with CEAS, CREEES, Music, Stanford Lively Arts, & IASSG)

ARC Film Series

Beyond Bollywood: New Indian Cinema. (May 30-June 1, with South Asian American Films & Arts Association)

ARC Tour

The New Asian Art Museum India Gallaries. (May 31)

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