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1. RESOURCE: Online database for attributions and dates of Chinese Buddhist texts
2. RESOURCE: Library of .slr files (to run user-delimited searches) for use with CBReader
3. RESOURCE: User's guide for the use of TACL software
4. CONFERENCE > AAR Tibetan and Himalayan Religions related papers and panels
5. Re: QUERY> Burma crisis, Buddhist crisis
6. AAR> Chinese Religions Sessions in Boston
7. CFP> Reminder: Nov 15 Application Deadline for Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on Premodern Chinese Humanities
8. ADMIN> Charles DiSimone to H-Net Council, continued
9. JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 6 November - 13 November
10. NEW BOOKS> Translations and Teachings from Shambhala Publications
11. SYMPOSIUM> Buddhism: A Religion of Peace?
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RESOURCE: Online database for attributions and dates of Chinese Buddhist texts
by Michael Radich
New online reference for Chinese Buddhist Studies
Dear colleagues,
I write to announce the launch of a new online reference work for the study of Chinese Buddhist texts.
As is well known, the texts of the received Chinese Buddhist canon, and other Chinese Buddhist texts, are rife with problems of incorrect attribution and dating, and scholars must exercise vigorous critical awareness in handling them. However, it is often difficult for individual scholars to keep abreast of relevant evidence, arguments and judgments in both primary and secondary sources. Such information is copious, but scattered in far-flung and sometimes obscure locations in numerous languages.
Programmer Jamie Norrish and I have created a user-contributor online reference resource to help scholars collaborate to keep track of such information—the Chinese Buddhist Canonical Attributions database (CBC@). CBC@ may be accessed at:
http://dazangthings.nz/cbc/
CBC@ already contains thousands of entries indexing such information in primary sources like the Chu zanzang ji ji 出三藏記集 T2145 or the Kaiyuan lu 開元釋教錄 T2154, or the works of key modern scholars like Hayashiya, Bareau, Zürcher, Nattier, and Funayama. For an example of the sort of information the database can contain on a single Taishō work, see:
http://dazangthings.nz/cbc/text/2237/
More examples are given in a Guide that I have compiled for users of the database, available at:
http://dazangthings.nz/cbc-guide/
I strongly recommend that prospective users read the Guide before using the database in their research.
I hope that scholars on this list will be persuaded to use CBC@, give me their feedback about how it can be improved, become contributors, and encourage their students to do the same.
For the period 2017-2018, work on CBC@ is generously supported by funding from the Chiang Ching-kuo Research Foundation (RG003-P-16). This financial support is being applied to systematically record information bearing on the critical assessment of ascriptions and dating from key modern Japanese sources, such as Ono Genmyō’s小野玄妙 (1883-1939) Bussho kaisetsu daijiten 佛書解說大辭典 and the works of Sakaino Kōyō 境野黄洋 (1871-1933). Earlier work on the database was supported by funding from the Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; and by funds associated with a Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2015. Throughout the process of planning and building to the present point, we have also benefited greatly from the generous and nonpareil advice of Professor Jan Nattier, and I gratefully acknowledge her help here.
Yours,
Michael Radich
Dr Michael Radich, Associate Professor 
Programme Director
Religious Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Room 207, 14 Kelburn Parade
ph:(64 4) 463 9477
Fax: (64 4) 463 5065
michael.radich@vuw.ac.nz
https://victoria.academia.edu/MichaelRadich
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacr/about/staff/michael-radich
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RESOURCE: Library of .slr files (to run user-delimited searches) for use with CBReader
by Michael Radich
Dear colleagues,
The CBReader allows searching through user-delimited groups of texts, rather than the entire corpus. This functionality is a powerful facet of the CBReader's search capacities. However, I have found that creation of such groups can be cumbersome with the CBReader point-and-click interface, especially if the groups one wishes to create are very large, and not captured by the traditional organisation of the canon.
Delimitation of the target search group is handled by a file with an extension .slr. I have created a library of .slr files (which I hope will expand over time), and a Python tool with which users can quickly custom-create their own new .slr files from a simple list of Taishō numbers. Please see here:
http://dazangthings.nz/slr-files-use-cbreader/
I hope that these resources will be useful to other scholars, and enable more effective use of the amazing riches CBETA puts at our disposal.
With my best wishes,
Michael Radich
Dr Michael Radich, Associate Professor 
Programme Director
Religious Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Room 207, 14 Kelburn Parade
ph:(64 4) 463 9477
Fax: (64 4) 463 5065
michael.radich@vuw.ac.nz
https://victoria.academia.edu/MichaelRadich
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacr/about/staff/michael-radich
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RESOURCE: User's guide for the use of TACL software
by Michael Radich
Dear colleagues,
Over the past four years, my programmer colleague, Jamie Norrish, and I have been developing TACL, a suite of free computer tools to assist in the anaysis of digitised Chinese Buddhist texts. I have now written a guide to the use of TACL in application to typical research questions, and made it available here:
http://dazangthings.nz/tacl-guide/
I hope that interested readers of this list will read the guide and consider how they might apply these tools in their own work.
The guide supplements, but does not replace, the TACL documentation here:
http://pythonhosted.org/tacl/
The code for TACL itself is always up to date and freely available here:
https://github.com/ajenhl/tacl
We encourage not only use of the code, but modification of it; the code is entirely open.
In their present state of development, the tools must be run from the command line. Further, the data they produce can be copious, and usually requires significant investment of time to analyse. These tools are no quick-fix or magic wand, therefore, but I believe it should be possible to get up and running with them in a matter of days rather than weeks. I am always happy --- keen, in fact --- to help scholars interested in the possibiliity of applying TACL to their work.
A list of research publications to date using TACL-assisted methods may be found in the guide.
Thank you for your attention,
Michael Radich
Dr Michael Radich, Associate Professor 
Programme Director
Religious Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
Room 207, 14 Kelburn Parade
ph:(64 4) 463 9477
Fax: (64 4) 463 5065
michael.radich@vuw.ac.nz
https://victoria.academia.edu/MichaelRadich
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacr/about/staff/michael-radich
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CONFERENCE > AAR Tibetan and Himalayan Religions related papers and panels
by Sarah Jacoby
Dear Colleages, These are the papers and panels related to Tibetan and Himalayan Religions at the AAR in Boston next weekend. See also the following website for more information about the AAR's Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit: http://campuspress.yale.edu/thrg/

Best wishes, Sarah Jacoby & Ben Bogin
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit co-chairs



2017 Boston related Papers/Panels
TIBETAN AND HIMALAYAN RELIGIONS UNIT SESSIONS:
A18-135
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Theme: New Research on Ritual, Politics, and Possession in Himalayan Religions
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University, Presiding
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)

Ian MacCormack, Harvard University
Figuring the Divine: Kāvya in Tibetan Political Writing

William Dewey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Geluk Sectarianism and the Tibetan Regency

Christopher Bell, Stetson University
Standardizing the Oracles: Spirit Possession in the Tibetan Monkey Year Festival

Katarina Turpeinen, University of Virginia
Soteriology and Shamanism in the Case of a Tibetan Oracle

Natasha Mikles, University of Virginia
“When is a Hat a Mountain?" Ritual’s Role in Constructing the Object of Vision

Business Meeting:
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University

A18-328
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Theme: Voices from Larung Gar
Michael Sheehy, University of Virginia, Presiding
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-102 (Plaza Level)

Antonio Terrone, Taiwan National Chengchi University
“Striving to Do Virtuous Deeds”: The Tenth Panchen Lama and Larung Gar in the Making of Modern Buddhism in Tibet

Jann Ronis, University of California, Berkeley
"The Union of Religion and Tibetan Culture": Rebuttals by Metrül Tenzin Gyatso to the Anti-religious Polemics of Tibetan Secularists

Chelsea Hall, Harvard University
Khenmo Yönten’s Quiet Commentaries: Publishing Female-Authored Buddhist Texts at Serta Larung Gar

Catherine Hardie, University of Oxford
The PRC-based "Larung Movement": Promoting Listening, Contemplating, and a Superior Mode of Lay Participation for Chinese Newcomers to Tibetan Buddhism

Responding:
Holly Gayley, University of Colorado

A19-257
Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Theme: Tibetan Madhyamaka
Richard Nance, Indiana University, Presiding
Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Wellesley (Third Level)

Michael Ium, University of California: Santa Barbara
Fake Truths: Jetsunpa, Gorampa, and Sectarian Polemics in Tibet

Jed Forman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pus and Nectar: Mixing Pramāṇa with Madhyamaka

Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University
Buddhist High Culture on the Tibetan Plateau: Tsültrim Lodrö on the Middle Way


TIBETAN AND HIMALAYAN RELIGIONS-RELATED PAPERS/PANELS IN OTHER PROGRAM UNITS:
A18-106
Buddhism Unit
Theme: Poetic Turns in Buddhist Literature
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University, Presiding
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand D (Fourth Level)

Nancy Lin, Vanderbilt University
Promiscuous Bodies of Knowledge: Poetics at the Fifth Dalai Lama’s Court


A18-107
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Embodiment, Place, and Landscape in Buddhist Traditions
Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan, Austin College, Presiding
Saturday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)

Eric Huntington, Princeton University
Disembodied Images: Changing Views on the Materiality of Objects in Buddhism

A18-203
Body and Religion Unit and Contemplative Studies Unit
Theme: Remapping, Remodeling, and Recovering the Body: The Subtle Body across Space and Time
David P. Lawrence, University of North Dakota, Presiding
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)

Kerry Martin Skora, Hiram College
The Subtle Body of Vital Presence in Contemplative Practices of Abhinavagupta's Trika Shaivism and Longchenpa's Great Perfection

Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University
Reprogramming Embodied Experiences in the Maharthamañjarī of Maheśvarānanda

Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado
Rethinking the Body's Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta's Contemplation of the Subtle Body

Responding:
M. Alejandro Chaoul, University of Texas, Houston

A18-224
Religion and Economy Unit
Theme: Valuing Religion
Kati Curts, University of the South, Presiding
Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-203 (Second Level)

Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen
Value Creation, Marketization of Spiritual Tourism and Religious Transformation in Ladakh, India

A18-333
Navarātri Seminar
Theme: Navarātri and the Production and Performance of Socio-Political Structures
Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University, Presiding
Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Maverick B (Second Level)
The full papers are available at https://www.aarweb.org/node/1736#A18-333.

Ehud Halperin, Tel Aviv University
Establishing Gods, Kingship, and Kingdom: Palanquin Rituals in the Kullu Dasahra

Anne Mocko, Concordia College
Removing the Royals from Nepal's Navarātri

A18-404
Films
Theme: Kundun
Saturday - 8:00 PM-10:00 PM
Sheraton Boston-Constitution (Second Level)

A19-109
Buddhism Unit
Theme: Buddhist Practical Canons: Textual Community in the Pre-modern Buddhist World
José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Gardner (Third Level)

Adam Krug, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Early Indian Mahāmudrā Canon and Practical Canonicity in the Esoteric Buddhism of India and Tibet

A19-135
Holmes Welch and the Study of Buddhism in Twentieth-Century China Seminar
Theme: Revisiting the Revival: Holmes Welch's Work at 50
Rongdao Lai, University of Southern California, Presiding
Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Regis (Third Level)

Holly Gayley, University of Colorado

A19-134
Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism Seminar
Theme: Buddhist Practice During Collapse: Economic, Cultural, Institutional, and Political
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Sunday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Sheraton Boston-Fairfax B (Third Level)

Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen
The Centrality of "Youth" in Promoting and Reforming Buddhist Monasteries in Ladakh

A19-233
Focus on Sustainability
Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Ritual and Community in Religion and Ecology
Melanie L. Harris, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Sunday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-201 (Second Level)

Luke Whitmore, University of Wisconsin, Steven's Point
Are Local Gods Ecological?

A19-326
Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Reading Vasubandhu's Triṃśikā and Its Commentaries
Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University, Presiding
Sunday - 5:00 PM-6:30 PM
Sheraton Boston-Commonwealth (Third Level)

Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
Vasubandhu’s Thirty Verses on Non-duality and Figurative Predication

Jay Garfield, Smith College
Trimśika 22 and Its Commentaries and Sequelae

A20-107
Buddhism Unit
Theme: Crime and Punishment: Legal Dialogues between Buddhism and Local Society in East and Central Asia
Mark L. Blum, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Exeter (Third Level)

Charles Manson, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Conundrums in Tibetan Medieval Crime and Punishment

Vesna Wallace, University of California, Santa Barbara
Why Fermented Mare’ Milk (Airag) and Not Vodka (Arkhɩ)? Cultural Norms and the Limits of the Vinaya in Mongolia

A20-113
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: The “Unsayable” in Tibetan Religious Literature
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College, Presiding
Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Vineyard (Fourth Level)

Eric D. Mortensen, Guilford College
What Is Not Told about What Was Once Invisible? Performative Lacunae in the Folklore of Tibetans of Geza

Dominique Townsend, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Unsayably Clear, Empty, and Divine: Cultivating an Awareness of Life and Death as Illusory through a Tibetan Practice of Lucid Dreaming

Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University
What Cannot Be Said Must Be Remembered: Unsayability and Tibetan Buddhist Aporias of Absence, Loss, Longing, and Realization

A20-237
Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Yogācāra and Meditation: An Inquiry Into the Practical Dimensions of Yogācāra Doctrine
William S. Waldron, Middlebury College, Presiding
Monday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Falmouth (Fourth Level)

Yaroslav Komarovski, University of Nebraska
Why Pointing at the Moon in the First Place? How Positive Articulations of Reality Affect Its Non-conceptual Realization

Responding:
Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University

A21-111
Buddhism Unit
Theme: New Work in Buddhist Studies
Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Tuesday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Westminster (Second Level)

Blayne Harcey, Arizona State Univeristy
The Search for Buddhist Origins and the Construction of Lineage at Lumbini Nepal

Ian MacCormack, Harvard University
Circling the Square: Rethinking the Lhasa Maṇḍala

Natasha Mikles, University of Virginia
The Butcher, the Baker, and the Hell-Being Maker: How the Embodied Experience of Samsara Makes Buddhist Hell

A21-119
Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Constructing Powerful Selves: Autobiography in South Asia
Kristin Bloomer, Carleton College, Presiding
Tuesday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)

Alyson Prude, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Authority and Vulnerability: Tibetan Buddhist Women's Oral Life Narratives

Ben Williams, Harvard University
Abhinavagupta as a Cosmopolitan Siddha: Religious Sources for Writing the Self in Medieval Kashmir

Responding:
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University

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Re: QUERY> Burma crisis, Buddhist crisis
by Matthew McMullen
The links in the previous message were broken. The corrected urls have been posted below.

https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/fighting-the-cancer-of-extreme-nationalism-in-myanmar

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/group-targets-rangoon-division-next-petition-u-wirathu.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/business/facebook-misinformation-abroad.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/world/asia/myanmar-government-facebook-rohingya.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/technology/facebook-fake-content-employees.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/myanmar-rohingya-ethnic-cleansing.html

http://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-rohingya-activists-say-facebook-silences-them

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-41364633


https://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20171019/Politics-Economy/A-resurgent-nationalism-is-shaping-Myanmar-politics

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Rohingya-crisis/Tensions-over-Rohingya-return-highlight-donor-dilemmas


http://www.newmandala.org/myanmars-national-races-trumped-citizenship/
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AAR> Chinese Religions Sessions in Boston
by Charles Muller
Posted on behalf of Anna Sun
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Dear colleagues,

We look forward to seeing you at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Boston next week! We have four sessions organized or co-organized by the Chinese Religions unit. Our annual business meeting is right after one of the afternoon sessions on Saturday November 18 (please see the detailed list below).

We are also inviting you to the luncheon roundtable organized by the Society for the Study of Chinese Religion, showcasing the work of new PHDs or ABDS in the field of Chinese religions. Please email Gil Raz, President of SSCR (gil.raz@dartmouth.edu), to reserve a seat.

We very much hope that you will be able to attend these exciting panels.

With best regards,

Anna Sun and Megan Bryson
Co-Chairs, Chinese Religions Unit

Saturday November 18, 2017

Saturday - 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Exeter (Third Level)
Buddhism Unit and Chinese Religions Unit
Theme: Reshaping Family Life in Modern Chinese Buddhism

Alison Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
Jessica Zu, Princeton University: Buddhisizing the Secular: Reframing the Family Ideals on Yogācāra Terms in Republican China
Paul Katz, Academia Sinica: Chen Hailiang’s Vision of Buddhist Family Life: A Pilot Study
Natasha Heller, University of Virginia: Buddhist Parenting for Modern Families: A Case Study
Neky Tak-Ching Cheung, University of Macau: Ritual and the Reformulation of Family Values: A Case Study of Lay Buddhist Menopausal Rituals in China
Responding: Robert Weller, Boston University

Saturday - 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Hynes Convention Center-205 (Second Level)
Chinese Religions Unit
Theme: Chinese Religions and Print Culture

Gregory Adam Scott, University of Manchester, Presiding
Noga Ganany, Columbia University: Origin Narratives: Writing and Worship in Late Ming Print Culture
Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado: Late Qing Performances of Philanthropic Identity in Reprints of Pan Gong Baojuan
Yair Lior, Boston University: The Tang-Song Transition in Light of Communication Technologies
Kaiqi Hua, University of British Columbia: The Tangut Buddhist Canon in the Yuan Dynasty: Printing Alien Scriptures under Alien Rule
Responding: Jiang Wu, University of Arizona

Business Meeting (right after the session Chinese Religions and Print Culture):
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee
Anna Sun, Kenyon College

Sunday Novemer 19, 2017


Sunday - 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Hilton Boston Back Bay-Belvidere B (Second Level)
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions Roundtable and Luncheon.
For more details please see (http://chinesereligions.org/home/announcements/).

Daniel Murray, ABD McGill University, “The Infrastructure of Spiritual Efficacy: Urban Development and Communal Temples in Modern Xiamen”
Lin Hsinyi, Ph.D. Columbia University, 2017, “Treating Childbirth with Dharmic Medicine:Buddhist healing resources for reproduction in Medieval China”
Wang Xiaoxuan, Postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, “Religion, Maoism and its Legacies in China, 1949-2016”
Noga Ganany, ABD Columbia University, “Hagiographic Narratives: Reading and Reverence in Late-Ming China”

Sunday - 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
Marriott Copley Place-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Chinese Religions Unit
Theme: Mapping Religion in Contemporary China

Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Presiding
Fenggang Yang, Purdue University: Mapping Religious Sites in Twentieth Century China: A Comparison of Mapping Techniques
Joey Marshall, Purdue University: Mapping the Growth of Buddhism and Daoism under Repressive Conditions in Twentieth-Century China
Yunping Tong, Purdue University: Religious Geography and Son Preference: A Spatial Analysis of Religious Sites in China
Responding: Jiang Wu, University of Arizona

Monday November 20, 2017

Monday - 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
Marriott Copley Place-Brandeis (Third Level)
Chinese Religions Unit and Confucian Traditions Unit
Theme: Religious Legacies of the Taiping War, 1850-1900

Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Presiding
Hsueh-Yi Lin, University of Wisconsin: Breaking the Symbiosis: The Destruction of Shrines of Worthies and the Decline of Confucianism
Gregory Adam Scott, University of Manchester: Local Gazetteer Data on the Post-Taiping Reconstruction of Religious Institutions
Joshua Sooter, New York University: Translating Religion: Qing Officials, Local Religious Sects, and the Problem of Orthodoxy in Post-Taiping China
George Kam Wah Mak, Hong Kong Baptist University: An Assessment of the Taiping Legacy on the Protestant Bible Work in Late Qing China
Responding: Natasha Heller, University of Virginia
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CFP> Reminder: Nov 15 Application Deadline for Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on Premodern Chinese Humanities
by Daniel Tuzzeo
Dear all,
This is a final reminder that this Wednesday, November 15th, is the deadline for applications for the Fifth Annual Stanford-Berkeley Graduate Student Conference on Premodern Chinese Humanities, to be held April 6–7, 2018. This conference will be of interest to Master's and doctoral students researching various aspects of Chinese Buddhism, Chinese religions, and Chinese culture and history. We encourage proposals that explore new methodologies, utilize recent developments in digital technology, or reconfigure cross-disciplinary boundaries.
Presenters will be provided with shared lodging, Friday dinner, and Saturday lunch. Partial travel assistance is available for students who cannot find other funding.
To apply, please submit a single-spaced 300-word paper proposal and short bio via our online submission system here by Wednesday, November 15 [https://ceas.stanford.edu/conferences/2018-stanford-berkeley-graduate-student-conference-premodern-chinese-humanities]. Presenters will be notified of acceptance by December 18, 2017. Full papers will be due by March 16, 2018.
For further inquiries, please contact Ronald Egan (ronegan@stanford.edu) or Zhou Yiqun (yzhou1@stanford.edu).

Daniel R. Tuzzeo
PhD Candidate, Buddhist Studies
Department of Religious Studies
Stanford University
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ADMIN> Charles DiSimone to H-Net Council, continued
by Charles Muller
Dear Colleagues,
I'm delighted to inform you that one of our Network editors, Charles DiSimone, has been elected to a second term on the H-Net Council, H-Net's administrative committee. It is good for H-Buddhism to have representation on the Council so that we have a say on network-wide decisions regarding the future of the platform. A good amount of time and energy is required to serve in this role, so we deeply appreciate Charlie's willingness to do this for us.
Best wishes from the editors


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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 6 November - 13 November
by Franz Metcalf
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 6 November 2017 to 13 November 2017. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.


ANTHROPOLOGY
University of Calgary - Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Indigenous Heritage, Faculty of Arts
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56044

ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Havard University - Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56046

McNeese State University - Assistant Professor, Non-Western History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56037

University of Strathclyde - Doctoral Studentship in the history of psychoactive substances and intoxicants in Asia c. 1900 to 1945
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56051

Wagner College - Assistant Professor - Tenure Track
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56057


DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Aarhus University - Assistant/Associate Professor in Digital Methods in History (940113)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56050

German Historical Institute - Metadata Editor/Digital Project Librarian
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56026

Washington University in St. Louis - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Cutlure
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56055


EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Havard University - Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56046

University of Georgia - Assistant Professor in East Asian Religions
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56024


JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Havard University - Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on US-Japan Relations
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56046

University of California - Los Angeles - Assistant Professor in Art History/Arts of Japan
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55851


NONE
Kobe Collge - Drake Guest Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56042

Qatar University - Senior Policy Analyst
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56031

University of Notre Dame - Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56054
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NEW BOOKS> Translations and Teachings from Shambhala Publications
by Nikko Odiseos
Dear Friends,
I am pleased to share a set of new releases that will be of interest to many on this list.
Note: All these books will be in our booth at AAR in Boston this coming weekend, stand 2313 in the middle of the hall, right next door to Columbia University Press.
The Life and Visions of Yeshe Tsogyal: The Autobiography of the Great Wisdom Queen, translated by Chonyi Drolma
This is a translation of a terma text discovered by Drime Kunga, then rediscovered by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo.  It included reflections from many contemporary teachers and scholars including Holly Gayley and Judith Simmer-Brown.  This is a quite different text from Lady of the Lotus-Born.
http://shmb.la/life-visions-yeshe-tsogyal
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: A New Translation by Christopher Stagg
"Stagg's authoritative and vibrant new translation of The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa is a marvelous achievement, at once faithful to the original Tibetan and sensitive to the modern reader. As the first complete English rendering of Milarepa’s collected poetry in more than fifty years, this edition will, no doubt, stand as the yogin’s voice for a new generation." —Andrew Quintman, associate professor of religious studies, Yale University
http://shmb.la/songs-of-milarepa
Changing Minds: Contributions to the Study of Buddhism and Tibet in Honor of Jeffrey Hopkins
This collection includes works such as:
- Tsongkhapa’s analysis of the two truths by Guy Newland
- Gendun Chopel’s critique of the orthodox Gelugpa approach to Madhyamaka by Donald Lopez.
- Tsongkhapa’s views on the afflictive emotion of anger by Daniel Cozort.
- Tsongkhapa, the centrality of ethics in his Lam Rim, the founding of the Gelug tradition by Elizabeth Napper.
- Dzogchen in the Bön tradition and how students are introduced to open awareness by Anne Klein.
- The Gelug tradition of Mahamudra and its relationship to the Kagyu tradition by Roger Jackson
- How Tsongkhapa, Dolpopa, and Buton viewed some of the prajnaparamita literature and how these views informed the development of the understanding of Madhyamaka in Tibet by Gareth Sparham.
- A discussion of alayavijnana from Asanga and Vasubandu to later Gelug commentators by Joe Wilson.
- An exploration of authorship and literature in Tibet by Jose Cabezon.
- How the books Jeffrey Hopkins have authored and translated form a comprehensive course in Tibetan Buddhism by Paul Hackett.
http://shmb.la/changing-minds
The Gathering of Vidyadharas: Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Düpa by By Jigme Lingpa, Patrul Rinpoche, Khenpo Chemchok, Kangsar Tenpe Wangchuk, and Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye.  Translated by Gyurme Avertin.
*Note, this is generally available but buyers are warned it is for those who have received the reading transmission for the Rigdzin Düpa.
http://shmb.la/gathering-of-vidyadharas
The Pure Joy of Being: An Illustrated Introduction to the Story of the Buddha and the Practice of Meditation by Fabrice Midal
While not an academic book per se, this is a great candidate for an introduction to Buddhism course.  Fully illustrated with beautiful art from across traditions.
http://shmb.la/pure-joy
Touching the Infinite: A New Perspective on the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness by Rodney Smith.
http://shmb.la/touching-infinite
An Ocean of Blessings: Heart Teachings of Drubwang Penor Rinpoche,  translated by Ani Jinba Palmo
The first formally published work of Penor Rinpoche
http://shmb.la/ocean
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 13: Philosophical Systems and Lines of Transmission by Choying Tobden Dorje, translated by Gyurme Dorje
This volume presents the philosophical systems of India and Tibet, according to the writings of Longchen Rabjam and the revelations of Orgyan Lingpa. First, it discusses the views attributed to classical Hinduism, Jainism, materialism, and nihilism. Second, it describes the standpoints of the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika exponents of the lesser vehicle, exemplified by pious attendants and hermit buddhas, and the Cittamatra (“mind only”) and Madhyamaka (“middle way”) commentators of the great vehicle, exemplified by great bodhisattva beings. Third, it analyzes the inner and outer vehicles of the Buddhist tantras, with an emphasis on the three classes of the great perfection. Fourth, it documents the lines of philosophical transmission within Tibet, including Bon, Nyingma, Kagyu, Sakya, Kadampa, and Geluk. It concludes with an extract from a well-known treatise of the Fifth Dalai Lama, applying the techniques of consequential reasoning to the first chapter of Vasubandhu’s Treasury of Phenomenology.
http://shmb.la/cnt-13
The Complete Nyingma Tradition from Sutra to Tantra, Book 14: An Overview of Buddhist Tantra By Choying Tobden Dorje, Translated by Ngawang Zangpo
An Overview of Buddhist Tantra is the fourteenth volume from this collection and the first in the series to focus on tantra. Whereas previous volumes presented the general exoteric teachings of Buddhism, this work outlines the esoteric practice of tantra according to the Nyingma system. The author defines the parameters of tantra by dividing the work into outer and inner tantras, and concludes with explaining the result of the tantric path—enlightenment itself. Designed to be a companion for dedicated practitioners who receive direct instructions from a qualified teacher, this work is a comprehensive manual that provides the foundation for understanding the genuine and profound teachings of Buddhist tantra.
*Note, in accord with the wishes of the people behind the book, this is a restricted title, only available through Shambhala.com.  It is intended to only be read by those who have completed the preliminary practices (ngondro).
http://shmb.la/cnt-14
Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: The Trilogy of Rest, Volume 1 By Longchenpa, Translated by Padmakara Translation Group
At last a new translation of Longchenpa’s Lam Rim.  Volumes 2 & 3 of the Trilogy will be released in 2018.
http://shmb.la/finding-rest-1
The Supreme Siddhi of Mahamudra: Teachings, Poems, and Songs of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage, Translated by Sean Price, Adam Kane, and Gerardo Abboud, introduced by Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
The first collection of its kind, it includes works by Lingchen Repa, Tsangpa Gyare, the Second Drukchen Kunga Paljor, Drukpa Kunleg, Pema Karpo, Tsele Natsok Rangdrol, Third Khamtrul Kunga Tenzin, Togden Shakya Shri, the Eighth Khamtrul Dongyu Nyima, Adeu Rinpoche, and more.
 http://shmb.la/supreme-siddhi.
The Light That Shines through Infinity: Zen and the Energy of Life By Dainin Katagiri
http://shmb.la/through-infinity
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SYMPOSIUM> Buddhism: A Religion of Peace?
by Mahinda Deegalle
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Event
Date:
November 4, 2017 to November 5, 2017
Location:
United Kingdom
Subject Fields:
Asian History / Studies
Southbank Centre in London has an annual "Belief and Beyond Belief" series this year. This weekend (4-5 November 2017) event is entitled "With God on Our Side . . . Religion and War."
A few Buddhist Studies scholars have been invited for three sessions including the panel on "Buddhism: A Religion of Peace?"
Panelists are: (1) Ulrich Pagel (SOAS, London), (2) Kate Crosby (King's College, London), Mahinda Deegalle (Bath Spa University) and Pyi Phyo Kyaw (King's College, London).
The link is southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/11936.
Thanks.
Mahinda Deegalle
Contact Info:
Prof. Mahinda Deegalle
Bath Spa University
Newton Park, Bath BA2 9BN, UK
Contact Email:
m.deegalle@bathspa.ac.uk
URL:
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/mahinda-deegalle/
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