Buddhist Studies Workshop
Princeton University
2008-2009

The Buddhist Studies Workshop, co-directed by Jacqueline I. Stone and Stephen F. Teiser, began in 1998 as an interdisciplinary forum for new scholarly work on Buddhism.  Interdisciplinary in design, Workshop participants come from various departments at Princeton, including Anthropology, Art and Archaeology, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, History, Sociology, and Religion.  The Workshop functions as a regional center as well, frequently drawing colleagues and students from the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, and Columbia University.  The Workshop is dedicated to helping participants talk across the usual divides imposed by the disciplines, such as the divergence between text and image, documents and living informants, present and past.  It also constitutes a broad forum for the discussion of pan-Asian (and increasingly East-West) issues.  Many sessions focus on only one area of the world (e.g., Buddhism in India and South Asia, Southeast Asia, central Asia, Tibet and the Himalayas, Korea, Japan, Europe, or America), but draw participants who focus on other areas.

If you wish to be placed on the mailing list, please contact bbermel@princeton.edu. For further information about the workshop directors, please click here: Jacqueline I. Stone and Stephen F. Teiser

Dunhuang Manuscripts and Paintings:
An International Symposium Honoring James and Lucy Lo
September 28, 2007, Friday, 1:30-6:00 pm, McCormick 101
-FAN Jinshi (Dunhuang Research Academy), “The Conservation and Study of Paintings at Dunhuang”
-Susan Whitfield (International Dunuang Project), “The Silk Road Online: Making Dunhuang and Its Treasures Accessible to All”
-Jean-Pierre Drège (École pratique des Hautes Études), “Dunhuang and the Two Revolutions in the History of the Chinese Book” 
-Jacob P. Dalton (Yale University), “New Insights into the Tibetan Collection from Dunhuang”
-Huaiyu Chen (University of the West), “Dunhuang and Turfan Manuscripts at Princeton”
Co-sponsored by the Tang Center for East Asian Art, the Princeton University Library, and others.

The Social Life of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in Northwest China, 9th-10th Centuries (Lecture in Chinese).
November 14, Wednesday, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
HAO Chunwen (Capital Normal University)
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies.

The Death and Funerals of “Sovereigns” in Medieval Japan (Lecture in Japanese).
Monday, November 26, 2007, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
UEJIMA Susumu (Kyoto Prefectural University)
Co-sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies

Imaginary Geographies: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map
Monday, February 4, 2008, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
Max Moerman (Barnard College)

Art History, Buddhist Studies, Tibet: New Perspectives from the Tibet Site Seminar
March 7-9, 2008, Friday-Sunday, McCormick 101
Friday, 4:30 pm:  Keynote lecture by Deborah Klimburg-Salter (University of Vienna).
Saturday and Sunday: Papers by graduate-student participants in the 2007 Tibet Site Seminar, with responses from Janet Gyatso (Harvard Divinity School), Marylin Rhie (Smith College), and E. Gene Smith (Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center).
Co-sponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Center for the Study of Religion.
The conference is free but registration is required: http://www.princeton.edu/~tibetsem/program-conference.htm

Bringing Together Intuition and Law:
Linguistic Relevance and Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics
Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
Charles Hallisey (Harvard Divinity School)

Filling the Missing Link: Simha Bhiksu and Zongmi’s Construction of an Indian Transmission Line for Chan Buddhism
Friday, April 11, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
Peter Gregory (Smith College)

War Magic in Tibetan Buddhism
Thursday, April 17, 2008, 4:30 pm, 1879 Hall, Room 137
Bryan Cuevas (Florida State University and the Institute for Advanced Study)

Patronage and Pure Land Paintings in Korea, 13th-14th Centuries  
Monday, April 28, 4:30 pm, 202 Jones Hall
Youngsook Pak (School of Oriental and African Studies and Yale University)
Co-sponsored by the P.Y. and Kinmay W.Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Program in East Asian Studies.

Questions?  Please send e-mail to bbermel@princeton.edu.

The Buddhist Studies Workshop is generously supported by the Provost, the Center for the Study of Religion, and the Department of Religion. 
Additional co-sponsors of specific events include:
The Program in East Asian Studies
The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
The Princeton University Library
The Council on the Humanities