Happy New Year !
One event this week.
Thursday, January 11
BUDDHIST STUDIES WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
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Happy new year! We at the Princeton Buddhist Studies Workshop
(BSW) are
happy to announce our second speaker for the 2000-01 academic year.
On January 11 (Thurs) at 4:30, Prof. Mimi Yiengpruksawan (Yale, History
of
Art) will speak with the theme "Illuminating the Illuminator:
The Sutra
That Wanted to Have a Body." As the presentation will include
slides, we
will meet in a special location: McCormick Hall, Room 106.
Prof. David Max
Moerman (Barnard, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures) and Prof. Melissa
McCormick (Columbia, Art History and Archaeology) have kindly agreed
to act
as discussants for this session.
You are cordially invited to participate. After the talk, please
join us
for a vegetarian-friendly catered dinner in our usual location, the
Department of Religion lounge in 1879 Hall. Online maps showing
McCormick
Hall and 1879 Hall are available at the following two links:
McCormick Hall:
http://www.princeton.edu:80/cgi/map/bq?building=McCormick+Hall
1879 Hall:
http://www.princeton.edu:80/cgi/map/bq?building=1879+Hall
Advance Distribution of the Workshop Paper
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At the BSW, we use meeting time not for paper presentation but principally
for discussion, so we make available advance copies of the paper.
Copies of
Prof. Yiengpruksawan's paper are already available in the Dept. of
Religion
lounge. If you are not near the Princeton campus and would like
to receive
a hard copy in the mail, then please reply with your paper address
as soon
as possible.
Upcoming Sessions of the BSW
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William R. LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania), March 2
"The Heavenly Path (Tendo) as Monarchy, Secrecy, and Sex"
Jan Nattier (University of Indiana at Bloomington), April 20
"Gender and Enlightenment: Sexual Transformation in Mahayana
Sutras"
Susanne Mrozik (University of Western Michigan), May 7
"Bodies Good to Eat: The Bio-Moral Effects of Bodhisattva Vows"
T. Griffith Foulk (Sarah Lawrence College), date TBA
"The Many Postures of Zen"
About the BSW
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Begun in 1998, the BSW is a forum for scholars of Buddhism to share
their
work and promote Buddhist Studies across boundaries of scholarly discipline,
time period, and region/nation/ethnicity. Prof. Yiengpruksawan's
talk will
integrate with our overarching theme for this year, "Buddhism and the
Body."
If you have questions or need more information, please e-mail me, Micah
Auerback (auerback@princeton.edu). I am the graduate student
helping with
the workshop this year.