Buddhism Studies Forum

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Eric Huntington, Rice University Eric Huntington specializes in the visual culture, ritual, and philosophy of Buddhism. Employing interdisciplinary methods alongside comparative and historicizing frameworks, he seeks new...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Rae Erin Dachille, University of Arizona Dr. Rae Erin Dachille (Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of California at Berkeley) specializes in the religious and artistic traditions of Himalayan Buddhism. Her research...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Allan Ding, DePaul University Yi (Allan) Ding received his bachelor's degree from Fudan University (2008) and his PhD in Religious Studies from Stanford University (2020). As a scholar of Chinese and Tibetan Buddhism, he...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross Beginning with Sylvain Lévi, most scholars for the past century who have assessed the state of Newar Buddhism in the Kathmandu Valley have described the tradition as “decadent,”...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Xingyi Wang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Xingyi Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese History and Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She was the 2021-2023 Sheng Yen Postdoctoral...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Eric Haruki Swanson, Loyola Marymount University During the years of political uncertainty in the early 13th century, scholar-monk Jien (1155-1225) turned to the veneration of Prince Shōtoku (574-622), a regent known for...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Norihisa Baba, University of Tokyo While the Four Āgamas have been often regarded as a part of the Early Buddhist canon, this talk will shed new light on these collections. Comparing Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Pāli...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Dessislava Vendova, MFA Boston The so-called ‘Muhammad Nari Stele,’ one of the most famous Buddhist artifacts from Gandhāra, has long been the subject of scholarly disagreement. This richly and elaborately carved “complex...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University There is something delightful about jottings and doodles in the margins of religious books. Perhaps it is the counterpoint that they offer to the generally serious and devout contents...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Xiaotian Yin, Harvard University Xiaotian (Lillian) YIN 尹筱天 is a scholar of Buddhist art and architecture, specializing in Buddhist art in Inner Asia and China from the tenth to the fourteenth century. Her dissertation,...