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- RESOURCE>Hyecho's Journey Website
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS> Reminder: Fellowships and
Grants in Buddhist Studies 2018-19
RESOURCE>Hyecho's
Journey Website
by Rebecca Bloom
Dear Colleagues,On behalf of our multi-disciplinary and multi-generational team from the University of Michigan's Humanities Collaboratory, I would like to announce the launch of our educational web resource, "Hyecho's Journey": http://hyecho-buddhist-pilgrim.asian.lsa.umich.edu/
In the year 721, a young Korean Buddhist monk named Hyecho set out on what would become one of the most extraordinary journeys in the history of Buddhism. Sailing first to China, Hyecho traveled by sea and over land to visit the many Buddhist holy sites of South Asia. He wandered as far west as Arabia before turning east on the Silk Road and finding his way back to northern China. Traveling farther than any known Buddhist pilgrim, Hyecho remarkably completed his pilgrimage in three years—and lived to tell the tale.
The website allows users to follow Hyecho’s journey across Asia and experience it in his own words. By exploring eleven of the places he visited, users can learn about the world of Buddhism he traversed, as well as the diversity of religions, cultures, landscapes, and artworks he encountered along the way. We have selected photographs to give life to Hyecho’s descriptions of landscapes and temples, and to allow the user to better visualize the physical world through which he traveled. We have also selected a variety of objects associated with these eleven places that are of the type Hyecho would have seen, touched, worshiped, used, or otherwise interacted with during his pilgrimage.
This website is the culmination of a two-year project dedicated to Hyecho’s journey that has been generously supported by the University of Michigan’s experimental Humanities Collaboratory, an innovative investment on the part of the university in collaborative, multi-generational humanities scholarship for the academy and the world beyond. As part of our grant, we have also collaboratively produced a book and an app, and contributed to the exhibition, Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia, on view at the Freer|Sackler in Washington, DC through November 29, 2020.
We hope you find this new web resource, as well as the other products of our collaborative project, to be useful tools for teaching about the world of Buddhism.
Best wishes,
Rebecca Bloom
PhD Candidate, Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan
CALL
FOR APPLICATIONS> Reminder: Fellowships and Grants in Buddhist Studies
2018-19
by Elisabeta Pop
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites
applications in the 2018-19 competition year of The Robert H. N. Ho Family
Foundation Program in Buddhist Studies. In cooperation with the Foundation,
ACLS offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions supporting
work that will expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought
in scholarship and society, strengthen international networks of Buddhist
studies, and increase the visibility of innovative currents in those studies.
Dissertation Fellowships: one-year stipends to PhD candidates for full-time preparation of
dissertations
Postdoctoral Fellowships: two-year stipends to recent recipients of the PhD for residence at a
university for research, writing, and teaching
Research Fellowships: one-year stipends for scholars who hold a PhD degree, with no
restrictions on time from the PhD
Grants for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations: one-year stipends for the creation of critical editions, translation of
canonical texts, and translation of scholarly works
New Professorships: multi-year grants to colleges and universities to establish or expand
teaching in Buddhist studies
These are global competitions. There are no restrictions
as to the location of work proposed, the citizenship of applicants, or the
languages of the final written product. Applications must be submitted in English. Program information and
applications are available at www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/.
Deadline for submission of fellowship applications:
November 14, 2018.
Deadline for institutional applications for New
Professorships: January 9, 2019.
For more information, please email BuddhistStudies@acls.org.
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