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Bryan Lowe deposited Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19 on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
My contribution to the Immanent Frame project on “Pandemic, Religion, and Public Life.” It’s a story on disease, divine protection, and penance ritual. What can early Japanese Buddhism teach us about our present moment?
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Bryan Lowe deposited Roads, State, and Religion in Japanese Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
This is a story of the possibilities created by connection but also of the inherent fragility of movement within a network. It uses a case study of roads in ancient Japan (defined as late seventh through early ninth centuries) to show how networks not only amplify interaction but also isolation. This article explores the religious implications of…[Read more]
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Bryan Lowe deposited Power and History in Japanese Buddhism Syllabus on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
Syllabus for a graduate reading course on secondary scholarship on Japanese Buddhism
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Bryan Lowe deposited Readings in Japanese Religions: Ancient and Medieval Buddhist Texts Syllabus on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
Syllabus for graduate seminar on premodern Japanese Buddhist texts from fall of 2019
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Bryan Lowe deposited Religion in Japanese Culture Syllabus on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
Syllabus for Religion in Japanese Culture from the fall of 2020.
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Syllabus for my course on Zen Buddhism from spring 2020.
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Bryan Lowe's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoReview of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoReview of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoReview of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoReview of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
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Thomas Mazanec deposited Review: The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
Review of The Halberd at Red Cliff: Jian’an and the Three Kingdoms, by Xiaofei Tian (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018)
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James A Benn deposited Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for a level 2 course on Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views. To be taught online Fall 2020.
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James A Benn deposited Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSyllabus for a level 2 course on Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views. To be taught online Fall 2020.
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James A Benn deposited Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
Syllabus for a level 2 course on Health, Healing and Religion: Comparative Views. To be taught online Fall 2020.
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Michael Stanley-Baker started the topic COVID-19 Teaching Resources – Call for Contributions, Invitation to Use in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoIf you want to contribute or use teaching resources on COVID-19, come visit this site and get involved.
Teach311+COVID-19 Collective is a collective of educators, researchers, artists, students and survivors spanning disciplinary and linguistic boundaries who study and teach about disasters. Our collaborative process…[Read more]
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Michael Stanley-Baker started the topic Call for Papers:Palgrave Encyclopedia of Health Humanities in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoThe editors are inviting scholars to participate in the The Encyclopaedia of Health Humanities to be published by Springer Nature (under the imprint of Palgrave Macmillan). This will be the first reference volume of the health humanities of its kind. Entries are sought with a lower limit of approximately 500-1,000 words and an upper limit of no…[Read more]
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Natasha Heller's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months ago
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited The General and the Bodhisattva: Commander Hou Jigao Travels to Mount Putuo in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoMount Putuo, the Chinese Potalaka, is located in the Zhoushan archipelago not far off the coast from Ningbo. The abode of Avalokiteğvara/Guanyin was not only a popular pilgrimage site, but also played a strategic role for the naval control of the archipelago, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In late imperial China, a number of military…[Read more]
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Marcus Bingenheimer deposited Stylometric Analysis of Chinese Buddhist texts – Do different Chinese translations of the Gaṇḍavyūha reflect stylistic features that are typical for their age? in the group
Digital Humanities East Asia on Humanities Commons 5 years, 9 months agoBelow we develop a method to determine whether the use of grammatical particles in Chinese Buddhist scriptures is characteristic for the period of their translation. The corpus consists of three different Chinese translations of an early Indian Mahāyāna text from two different periods. We use the results of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to d…[Read more]
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