The European Association for Chinese Studies is holding an Autumn School titled "字 and the Search for Universalism", for students and junior scholars working on the history of the Chinese script and the “sinographic sphere”.
Dates: 14–16 November
Location: Nürnberg
sites.google.com/view/eacsaut...
A page from a manuscript with "highlights" in yellow and blues in form of little boxes surrounding names and important phrases.
Do you also highlight a lot when you are reading? Here is highlighting in a book, medieval manuscript-style.
Paris. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-492, Gregory the Great's Dialogues, 11th century
Eleven copies of our book “Countless Sands” are stacked one atop the other, with every other spine showing the title. One copy at left is facing out, to show the books cover.
First copies just arrived:
COUNTLESS SANDS: MEDIEVAL BUDDHISTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS (2025)
The publisher’s website is shipping now
go.hawaii.edu/bXG
When the the text writes itself.....
Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Merci pour ce starter pack bien utile ! 🙏 Pourriez-vous m'ajouter à la liste également ?
Thank you for making this awesome starter pack! 🙏 Could you please add me to the list? My work on premodern Chan/Zen Buddhist literature has led me to produce TEI editions of manuscripts and woodblock prints, as well as delving into Historical Social Network Analysis.
Thank you for making this starter pack! 🙏 Could you please add me to the list? A critical dimension of my research on premodern Chan/Zen Buddhist literature deals with manuscript and print culture in Dunhuang and other parts of East Asia.
Hi everyone, I've made my first starter pack for Rare Books and Spec Coll folks. I am completely sure I've missed folks, so please speak up in a reply and I'll add you to the pack! follow on, friends! 📜 #bookhistory go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS
Thank you very much for making this fantastic starter pack! 🙏 Could you please add me to the list? A critical dimension of my research on premodern Chan/Zen Buddhist literature deals with manuscript and print culture in Dunhuang and other parts of the Chinese mainland.
Painting of a skeleton seated cross legged at a low table, holding a brush and thinking. Beside the skeleton lay a pile of books. To one side, a pot of tea is on a charcoal stove.
Morbid frontispiece to “Skeletons” a la Zen master Ikkyū 一休 (1394-1481). A meditation on impermanence. 1847 manuscript edn. of 一休骸骨 held by Ryukoku University Library, Kyoto.
The Sanchi stupa, a half dome-shaped reliquary surrounded by a circumambulatory path, is a pilgrimage site for Buddhists and tourist attraction for persons of all faiths.
A Buddhist Studies Starter Pack is up and running! Envisioned as primarily academic, it’s also a place for librarians, publishers, and professional societies that work with Buddhist Studies to connect.
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Many thanks for this! I'd love to join the list if it's not too late. My research focuses on premodern Chinese Chan/Zen Buddhism. 🙏
Thank you so much for doing this! I would also suggest adding @tommazanec.bsky.social to the list. (And if I qualify, I'd be very happy to join as well!)
The Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations" at the University of Vienna has advertised two postdoctoral positions in imperial Eurasian and Chinese history:
eurasiantransformations.univie.ac.at/news/details...
I'm not sure whether this is of any help, but I found another painting with the same 白雲山叟 (a sobriquet?). Here is the link: www.kongfz.cn/6634768/pic/.
I organized a workshop on "New Approaches to Traditional Chinese Food Culture" with one of our grad students, Wandi Wang, for next weekend, March 9-10, at UC Santa Barbara. If you are in the southern / central California area, please join us!
The deadline for our East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop is just over a week away! 🚨Apply by 3/8 for this intro to DH through EAS! Apps from grad students & contingent faculty are prioritized. 🥳 Taken our DL before? Recommend us! 😀⬇️ @vierth.bsky.social web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...
To those dealing with ancient (Chinese) manuscripts, what type of loupes/magnifiers would you recommend using? Do you have any suggestions in particular? 🧐 And same question for micrometers.
