HCBSS COLLOQUIUM 2009-10 Saints and Sages a program in cooperation with the Department of Religious Studies supported by the Hwei Tai Fund for Buddhist Studies unless otherwise noted all lectures to be held 5:15 p.m. Encina Hall West 208

Thursday, November 12

Reginald Ray
Naropa

The Path of Desire:
Tantric Saints in Indian Buddhism

SPECIAL VENUE:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center

Wednesday, February 3

Phyllis Granoff
Yale

On Reading the Lives of the Jinas:
Questions and Answers of Medieval Monks

Thursday, February 4

Koichi Shinohara
Yale

Fotudeng’s “Magic”:
Dhāraṇī Practice and the Narrative of Omniscience

Wednesday, March 10

Devin A. DeWeese
Indiana

Paradigm and Personality in the Lives of Khudāydād:
The Domestic Life of a 16th-Century Central Asian Saint

Co-sponsored with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies

Thursday, April 8

Stephen J. Patterson
Eden

Jesus Meets Plato:
The Wisdom of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas

Thursday, April 29

Ra‘anan Boustan
UCLA

The Rabbinic Sage as Martyred Saint:
Transformations of Jewish Narrative and Liturgy in Late Antiquity

Co-sponsored with the Taube Center for Jewish Studies