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- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2 December - 9 December
- QUERY> Co-translator for Submission to the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature
- RESOURCE> Jātaka Stories database launch
- CONFERENCE> "The Idea of Text in Buddhism", the Hebrew University
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2 December - 9 December
by Franz Metcalf
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 2 December 2019
to 9 December 2019. 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.org,
or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.ANTHROPOLOGY
Bauhaus-Universit"at Weimar - Research Training Group "Media Anthropology"; 10 PhD Positions, 2 Post-Doc Positions, 2 PhD Scholarships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59674
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Academia Sinica - Researcher (open rank Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, or Assistant Research Fellow)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59636
Oregon State University - Postdoctoral Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59679
Phillips Academy, Andover - Instructor in History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59682
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - The Wilson China Fellowship Seeks Applicants
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59666
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Bauhaus-Universit"at Weimar - Research Training Group "Media Anthropology"; 10 PhD Positions, 2 Post-Doc Positions, 2 PhD Scholarships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59674
Council on Library and Information Resources - CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowships in African American and African Studies, Energy Social Science, and Academic Libraries (multiple positions)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59676
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Academia Sinica - Researcher (open rank Research Fellow, Associate Research Fellow, or Assistant Research Fellow)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59636
Harvard University - 2020-21 Hou Family Fellowship in Taiwan Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59650
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - The Wilson China Fellowship Seeks Applicants
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59666
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Japanese Teacher, Language Center
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59642
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - The Wilson China Fellowship Seeks Applicants
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59666
QUERY> Co-translator for Submission to the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature
by Gregory Adam Scott
Dear colleagues,A call for manuscripts for a new series, the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, to be published by Oxford University Press, has been making the rounds of various e-mail lists. I wonder if anyone is interested in collaborating with me on translating an important Buddhist Classical Chinese text from the late Imperial period (Ming or Qing) as a contribution to the series. In addition to translating short pieces of Buddhist primary sources in my research, I also teach Classical Chinese at the undergraduate level, so this would be an interesting project for me, and hopefully for someone else as well. Please feel free to get in touch with me via email:
gregory.scott@manchester.ac.uk
Best,
Gregory Scott
University of Manchester
RESOURCE> Jātaka Stories database launch
by Chris Clark
Dear friends and colleagues,We are pleased to announce the launch of Jātaka Stories (https://jatakastories.div.ed.ac.uk), a free online searchable database of jātakas in Indian texts and art. In this database, users may browse stories belonging to a variety of Sanskrit and Pali textual collections. Each story in text contains a set of information, including the story’s themes, characters and places; the Sanskrit or Pali full text; and an English translation (where available). Similarly, users may browse artwork belonging to a number of Buddhist sites of ancient India. Each story in art contains a different set of information, including its date, location, visual elements, associated textual stories, corresponding inscription (in Prakrit and English translation, where present), a description of the scene, and an image of the artwork (where available). Many of the data fields are hyperlinks, e.g. themes, characters, places, rebirth identifications and visual elements. Users may click on any of these hyperlinks to explore the stories with which they are associated.
In addition to browsing, there are search pages for finding particular textual and visual jātakas. These pages contain a series of filters that, with each addition, gradually narrow the search results. Please note that, at present, the search function for texts has a couple of issues that will be fixed during the first half of 2020 (details of these issues are given in the Search Stories in Text webpage). Finally, users may browse or search for specific story clusters, which group together similar stories in text and art (a concept that is similar to “parallel stories”, though more inclusive).
Further expansion of the database is planned, including texts and art from other parts of Asia (if you are interested in contributing to future additions, please email naomi.appleton@ed.ac.uk). We hope that the Jātaka Stories database will be a useful research tool for scholars and will further encourage the study of textual and visual narratives side by side. This project has been generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
Naomi Appleton and Chris Clark
University of Edinburgh
CONFERENCE> "The Idea of Text in Buddhism", the Hebrew University
by Eviatar Shulman
Dear Colleagues,I am please to announce the upcoming conference at the Hebrew University on "The Idea of Text in Buddhism", supported by a generous grant from the Khyentse Foundation.
Please see the program below.
With best wishes,
Eviatar Shulman
The Idea of Text in Buddhism
A workshop at HUJI, December 10-12, 2019
Tuesday, December 10
Morning Session, Chair: Naphtali Meshel, HUJI
9:45 – 12:15 Charlie Hallisey, Harvard:
"Behind Every Great Text Is a . . . ?" A Guided Reading of Buddhaghosa on Saṃyutta Nikāya I.13 and Visuddhimagga I.
12:30 – 13:30 Mark Allon, University of Sydney:
The Composition and Transmission of Early Buddhist Texts with Specific reference to Sutta/Sūtras
Afternoon session, Chair: Yael Bentor (HUJI)
15:00-15:45 Richard Salomon, Washington University
Cutting and Pasting the Buddhist Way: Some thoughts on the Combination and Constitution of Buddhist Texts
15:45 – 16:30 Juan Wu, Tsinghua University:
The Cīvaravastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya and Its Counterparts in Other Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Codes: A Comparative Survey
17:00 – 18:00 Eviatar Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Play of Formulas in the Early “Discourses”
Wednesday, December 11
Morning Session, Chair: David Shulman, HUJI
9:30 – 12:00 Paul Harrison, Stanford:
Moving Targets: Reading and Reflecting on Three Passages from the Vajracchedikā
12:20 – 13:05 Natalie Gummer, Beloit College:
Buddhavacana as Ritual-Poetic Power Substance
13:05 – 13:50 Richard Nance, Indiana University:
The Limits of Provenance: Reconsidering Buddhavacana
Afternoon Session, Chair: Flavio Geisshuesler, HUJI
15:30 – 16:15 Janet Gyatso, Harvard University:
High-Density Suggestion: Texts that Contact Us
16:15 – 17:00 Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Bochum:
Mobility and Plasticity of Divination Texts
17:15 – 18:00 Christine Mollier, CRNS Paris:
Buddhist and Daoist Scriptural Production in Medieval China: Doubles and Counterfeits
Thursday, December 12
Morning Session, Chair: Natalie Gummer, Beloit College
9:30 – 11:00 Matthew Kapstein, University of Chicago:
Just what is the Yogācārabhūmisāstra?
11:20 – 12:05 Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv University:
On the Language, Authority, and the Role of Commentaries: Sthiramati's Use of Etymology as a case study
12:05 – 12:50 David Fiordalis, Linfield College:
Seeking Buddhist Narrative: Discourse, Genre, Text
13:00 – 13:45 Shenghai Li, Fudan University:
Buddhist Texts as Scripture: Aspects of Āgama’s Conceptual Range and Application
Afternoon session, Chair: Charles Hallisey, Harvard
15:15 – 16:00 Yagi Morris, University of Wisconsin:
Between a Buddha and a Rock: Text as a Device of Transformation
16:00 – 16:45 Jonathan Silk, University of Leiden:
Determining Texts and Contexts
17:15 – 18:15 Concluding discussion
