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ARC Launches Spectrum
Spectrum from p. 1 |
| Like ARC itself, Spectrum
will cover the broad range of Asian humanities at Stanford, with
a focus especially on information that might be of interest beyond
the campus. We will try to keep you abreast of the news and aware
of events, as well as introduce you to some of the players. |
Design and content of Spectrum
are still under development. If you have suggestions of what
you would like see in the publication, please contact Wendy;
you can reach her by email at
wabraham@stanford.edu |
If you wish to be added to
or removed from our mailing list, please email us at
winchin@stanford.edu |
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| Lori
Meeks (Princeton University) will
be a postdoctoral fellow in Religious Studies. Prof. Meeks specializes
in medieval Japanese religion and will teach a spring course
on religion and the family in East Asia. |
| Azim
Nanji (Ismaili Institute) will
be visiting professor in Islamic studies in Religious Studies
during winter and spring terms. |
| Meir
Shahar (Tel Aviv University) will
be a visiting scholar in Religious Studies. He is completing
a book while at Stanford on the history of the Chinese martial
arts at Shaolin Monastery and will teach a course on the subject
in the spring. |
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| The new appointments will
expand the resources of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies and
rebuild the core faculty of the Group in Buddhist Studies at
Cal. With these added strengths, the two schools look forward
to close cooperation in joint projects and events. |
| Steven Carter, a graduate of UC Berkeley, is the author of Unforgotten
Dreams, Poems by the Zen Monk Shôtetsu (Columbia University
Press, 1997), and other works on the Japanese poetic tradition.
Prof. Carter was formerly chair of East Asian Languages and Literatures
at UC Irvine. |
| Alexander von Rospatt, a graduate of Hamburg, is the author of The
Buddhist Doctrine of Momentariness and other works on South
Asian Buddhist thought and practice. |
| Robert Sharf, who graduated from and subsequently taught in
the Buddhist studies program at Michigan, is the author of Coming
to Terms With Chinese Buddhism and other works on East Asian
Buddhism. |
| Michael Zimmermann, author of A Buddha Within, is a graduate
of Hamburg. Prof. Zimmermann, formerly director of the Nepalese
Manuscript Project in Kathmandu, comes to Stanford from a postdoctoral
appointment at Munich University. |
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