Buddhism Studies Forum

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Briana Brightly, Harvard University When imagining the creation of Buddhist art, few picture the artist observing dissections, studying materia medica, or diagramming disease. Yet this is precisely what happened in...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Or Porath, Tel Aviv University "A Long Tale for an Autumn Night" (Aki no yo no naga monogatari) is an illustrated narrative scroll (emaki) dating to the fourteenth or fifteenth century, now held at the Metropolitan Museum...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Paula Arai, Institute of Buddhist Studies How does one wield liberating power in a context with oppressive institutions, teachings, and practices? This question drives Of Mud and Lotuses: Dreaming the Lives of Buddhist...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM This event has been canceled. SPEAKER: Joie Szu-Chiao Chen, Harvard University Joie Szu-Chiao Chen is a PhD candidate in Buddhist Studies at Harvard University, where her research looks at the confluence of various modes of...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Benjamin Brose, University of Michigan A world in which spirits stand guard, animals gravitate toward sages, and the Earth itself expresses its opinion is par for the course in both Indic and Chinese texts. It is the...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Prakirati Satasut, Thammasat University, Yenching Visiting Scholar In 2020, a wave of protests broke out in Thailand. Calling for political and royal reform, the youth-led movements challenged the status quo with open...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Janice Leoshko, UT Austin Janice Leoshko taught courses about various issues concerning the art of South Asia as well as Buddhist Art throughout Asia. While her research primarily concerns the development of Buddhist...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Paulina Kolata, Harvard University Paulina Kolata is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She is a scholar of religion in Japan, specialising in Buddhism, material and...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Amy Langenberg, Eckerd College/HDS Amy Paris Langenberg is a specialist in classical South Asian Buddhism with a focus on monasticism, gender, sexuality, and the body. She also conducts ethnographic research on contemporary...