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| An audience of over forty
scholars from the two universities heard talks by Berkeley students
Amanda Goodman and Juhn Ahn, and Stanford student Lisa Grumbach. |
| Planned as an annual series, the colloquium
will hold its second meeting April 15, at Stanford. |
| The cooperative program is
an extension of the Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Colloquium,
which brings together scholars of the two campuses for lectures
on Buddhism. The next meeting of the colloquium, January 19,
will feature Mario Poceski (Florida), speaking on Tang-dynasty
Zen. |
| Meetings of the colloquium
are free and open to the public. For more information, visit
the colloquium website. |
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| Stanford will be the site
of a symposium on Jodo Shin Buddhism, to be held February 24.
The one-day program will bring together scholars and representatives
of the religion to discuss the topic "Meditation in American
Shin Buddhism." |
| The event is organized by
the Institute of Buddhist Studies, a seminary associated with
the Buddhist Churches of America. Campus host is Buddhism in
the Modern World, a joint program of the Buddhist Community at
Stanford, the Office for Religious Life, and the Stanford Center
for Buddhist Studies |
| For information on the event,
visit the BMW web page. |
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Initiative to provide
electronic resources |
| A project to provide electronic
resources for the study of Daoism is underway at Stanford. The
new initiative, to be known as the Daoism KnowledgeBase, is the
brainchild of arc/china director Fabrizio Pregadio. |
| When fully implemented, the project will
provide a bibliographic database of Daoist texts, critical editions
and translations of previously untranslated sources, digital
versions of non-canonical texts, an online glossary of Daoist
terms, and digital reproductions of iconography. |
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| The initiative will begin
at Stanford with a pilot project focused on some three hundred
sources in the Daoist tradition known as "inner alchemy"
(neidan). As the work expands, efforts will be made to
include scholars and institutions in Europe and Asia. |
| Pregadio, who teaches Chinese religions
in Religious Studies, is a specialist in Daoist studies; he is
the editor of the forthcoming Encylopedia of Taoism (Routledge)
and author of Great Clarity: Alchemy and Daoism in Early Medieval
China, forthcoming in the ARC series. |
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