Reading Group: Yehan Numata Program in Buddhist Studies
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"Using Epigraphy to Reveal Gendered Relational Agencies at Baoshan"
WENDI L. ADAMEK is Professor in the Department of Classics and Religion at the University of Calgary and holder of the Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies. Her research focus is medieval Chinese Buddhism. Her most recent book Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan (2021) is a multidisciplinary exploration of a 6th-century community in north-central China. Previous publications include The Mystique of Transmission (AAR Award for Excellence in Textual Studies, 2008) and The Teachings of Master Wuzhu (Columbia University Press Asian Classics Series, 2011). Born in Hawai’i, she earned her degrees at Stanford University and has held research fellowships at Kyoto University (BDK, Fulbright), Peking University (NEH, Fulbright), the Stanford Humanities Center, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), and the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.
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