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The Sacred Geographies Workshop will complete
its meetings this spring with a final series of talks on the
spatial dimension in Asian religions. Scheduled to speak are
James Robson (Michigan) on Chinese mountains, Charlotte Fonrobert
(Religious Studies) on rabbinic mapping, and Sayoko Sakakibara
(Tokyo) on the notion of the three kingdoms.
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The workshop, which began last academic
year, heard papers during winter term by Ronald Davidson (Fairfield)
on Indian Tantra, Griffith Foulk (Sarah Lawrence) on Chinese
monasteries, and Gregory Levine (Berkeley) on Japanese landscape
painting.
Organized by Prof. Michael Zimmermann and
doctoral student Kenneth Koo (both of Religious Studies), the
workshop is sponsored jointly by ARC and the Stanford Humanities
Center, and funded by the Mellon Foundation. Events are open
to the public. For information, consult the workshop web site.
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The Berkeley-Stanford Buddhist Studies Graduate
Student Colloquium will hold its second meeting at Stanford on
Friday, April 15. Scheduled to present papers are Berkeley students
Jinah Kim and Nancy Lin, and Stanford student Theodore Cook.
The first meeting of the new annual program was held at Berkeley
in December.
The colloquium is designed to bring together
students and faculty of the two universities to hear presentations
on doctoral student research projects. Events are open to the
public. For more information, visit the colloquium web page.
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Stanford hosts Buddhist
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Meeting explores meditation
in Pure Land Buddhism |
| A symposium entitled "Meditation
in American Shin Buddhism" was held on campus February 24
at the Fairchild Center. The event was organized by the Institute
of Buddhist Studies, a seminary and graduate school associated
with the Buddhist Churches of America. |
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| The day-long meeting heard
talks on the history of Buddhist meditation practices and their
role in the religious practice of the Jodo Shin school. |
| The symposium was hosted
at Stanford by Buddhism in the Modern World, a joint program of
the Office for Religious Life and the Buddhist Community at Stanford. |
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