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Prof. James McDermott |
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| The donation, particularly
strong in Pali materials, represents the professional library
of the late Professor James P. McDermott, for many years the
chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Canisius College.
Prof. McDermott was the author of Development in the Early
Buddhist Concept of Kamma/Karma (1984) and other important
studies. |
| Cataloguing of the SCBS collection
should be completed during the coming year, making the center's
reading room holdings available on line. |
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| The Stanford Center for Buddhist
Studies and the U.C. Berkeley Group in Buddhist Studies co-sponsored
a series of public talks on Buddhism during spring term. The
events were part of the newly initiated Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist
Studies Colloquium, which brings visiting speakers to the Bay
Area. The cooperation between the two campuses will be expanded
next year to include a shared forum for the presentation of graduate
student research. |
| Colloquium talks
during spring term included: |
- Jacob Dalton (British Library), "Tantric
Buddhism on the Silk Road: New Discoveries from the Caves of
Dunhuang"
- William Porter (author Red Pine), "Road
to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits"
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- Michael Zimmermann (Stanford), "Buddha-Nature
in India: Ethical Stimulant, Metaphysical Rationale, or Prosyletizing
Strategy?"
- Christian Luczanits (Vienna), "Buddhist
Sculpture in Clay: Early Western Himalayan Art, Late 10th to
Early 13th Centuries"
- Alexander von Rospatt (UC Berkeley), "No
Suffering in Old Age: Life Cycle Rituals for Elders in Newar
Buddhism"
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Tethong, former Representative of H.H.
the Dalai Lama in New York and Washington, D.C., and former Chairman
of the Kashag, the Tibetan Cabinet, has played a leading role
in key Tibet initiatives in the U.S., including the Tibet Fund,
Tibet House, the International Campaign for Tibet, the Committee
of 100 for Tibet , and the Dalai Lama Foundation.
He has previously been a visiting scholar
at Stanford, where he has taught Tibetan history and culture
in both History and Continuing Studies.
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| Great Clarity: Alchemy
and Daoism in Early Medieval China,
by Religious Studies faculty member Fabrizio Pregadio, will appear
in the Asian Religions & Cultures series of
Stanford University Press. The book is one of four new series
volumes currently in press. |
| Pregadio, director of the
arc/china
initiative, is a leading scholar of the Daoist religion and
editor of the forthcoming Encylopedia of Taoism (Routledge). |
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