Month: November 2019

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Adeana McNicholl

Post author By mheller1
Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Body, Buddhism in the U.S., Cosmology, Gender, Ghosts, South Asian Buddhism

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Sarah Haynes

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Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Buddhism in North America

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Jessica Zu

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Post date November 21, 2019

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Jane Mikkelson

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Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Central Asia, Iran, Islam, Islam in Russia, Islamic philosophy, Literature in Persian, Pahlavi, South Asia, Sufism, Urdu

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Kristin Hanssen

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Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Anthropology of emotions, Baul, Begging, Burials, Caste, Gender, India, Life stories, Patronage, Religious expertise, Resistance, Rituals, Vaishnava traditions, West Bengal, Women

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Marta Sanvido

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Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Buddhism, Chan, Chinese religions, Daoism, Engi-mono, Gozan manuscripts, Japanese religions, Kamakura Buddhism, Kirigami, Koan, Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Meiji period, Muromachi Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism, Onmyōdō, Ritual formation, Soto school, Zen Buddhism

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Barbara Ruch

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Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Buddhism, Cultural history, Japanese Imperial Buddhist nuns, Japanese women, Mugai Nyodai, Otomae, Zen Abbess

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Kelly Hammond

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Post date November 21, 2019

Tags Chinese borderlands, Chinese Islam, Imperialism, Islam in Asia, Nationalism, Uyghurs, Xinjiang

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Marzia Vettorato

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Post date November 21, 2019

2017 – present: Ph.D. Student, Civilizations of Asia and Africa, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University, Rome. Major: East Asian Philosophies and Religions
2019 – present: member of AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi)
02/2019 – 03/2019: participant of the international project “Ise and Japan Study Program”, Kōgakkan University 皇學館大学, Ise (Japan)
2014 – 2017: Master of Arts, Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Japanese Language and Culture), Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University, Rome – summa cum laude. Major: East Asian Philosophies and Religions

Tags Ancient Japanese religions, Divination, Esoteric Buddhism (mikkyo), Honji suijaku, Japanese Buddhism, Onmyōdō, Shinto