Thank you Karyōbinga Shōmyō Kenkyūkai for their first performance in front of the giant Kannon Bosatsu replica scroll from Hasedera, at The Forum Norwich!

Today, The Kazakh Spring, my third book, that deals with conceptual and empirical exploration of protests under dictatorships is out worldwide! I have a 20% discount flyer for hardcover/paperback and can send it to anyone interested (dm me pls) cambridge.org/core/books/kaz…

L'Ifrae et le CEIB ont le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence : "The Globalization of Taiwan Buddhism" 📅Vendredi 31 mai 2024, 14h-16h 📍 Maison de la Recherche, 2 rue de Lille, Paris Plus d'informations👇 inalco.fr/evenements/glo…

New HYI Scholar Profile! Prof. Youn-mi Kim discusses her research on “Space, Body, and Ritual in Chinese Medieval Buddhism: Liao Pagodas (907-1125)”: ow.ly/bzT650ROPGa

BBC Radio 4's In Our Time programme discusses the life of Empress Dowager Cixi. Guests include China Centre Associate Rana Mitter Harvard Kennedy School St Cross College bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A friend once described Margaret Howell's aesthetic as "Cucinelli if Cucinelli was based in the English countryside." I don't own anything from the brand except for two pairs of knitted gloves, but I admire the company's lookbooks every season. Margaret Howell FW24

cincinnati has meijers AND krogers!!!

I have a new article out in the Journal Of The American Academy Of Religion: TIBETAN BUDDHISM IN THE AGE OF WASTE doi.org/10.1093/jaarel…

Here's an image of Bodhisattva ("Pussa" < púsà 菩薩) Guanyin 觀音, identified as the Chinese Cybele or Isis, with both Sinitic and Indic inscriptions, from Athanasius Kirchner's "China Illustrata", 1667 😍

No. Monkeys don’t use water to mindlessly scroll, but to open their mind. Water is much more than an ipad to him.

Gecko noises and human anxieties: Sino-Platonic Papers is pleased to announce the publication of its three-hundred-and-forty-sixth issue: "The Imagery of House Geckos and Tokay Geckos in Imperial Era Chinese Literature," by Olivia Anna Rovsing Milburn.… dlvr.it/T7PVSf

Buddhist sutras from 6th to 14th centuries, on display at Yale’s Sterling Library

*MUST READ!* A visit to a Buddhist centre in Peckham inspires me to explore the life of Master Miao Jiang, religious faith in the Datong region under Maoism, and Wutaishan through successive regimes stephenjones.blog/2024/05/26/bud… Ian Johnson UK Association for Buddhist Studies Antiokhos in the West

#Kazakhstan is celebrating 800 years of the Ulus of Jochi: Historical studies and revelations en.inform.kz/news/celebrati…

Too tired to post but this is temple 1 of 7 I went to today, the Tang dynasty East Main Hall of Foguang Temple 佛光寺, dated 857. I was almost tearful ambulating outside the hall - looking up at the roof support - the building isn’t a tiny grainy photo anymore!

John Berger discussing Caravaggio with some school kids [from 'Ways of Seeing', 1972]

Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance is now in paperback from Routledge Books more info below: routledge.com/Contemporary-C…

Check out "The Politics of Collecting" by Eunsong Kim. It will be out in August but you can read the book's introduction, for free, right now on our website. ow.ly/U5Bh50S6KJa #MuseumStudies #ArtHistory