The Evans-Wentz Lectureship
in Oriental Philosophies, Religions, and Ethics
Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University
Funded by a bequest from
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz (Stanford, '06; M.A., '07)
Special events sponsored by the lectureship

XXXV 2010
Leonard van der Kuijp
Harvard University
"Buddhist Tantras on their Origins"

XXXIV 2009
Richard Gombrich
Oxford University, emeritus
“Fitting the Buddha into the Early History of Indian Religion"

XXXIII 2008
Jacqueline Stone
Princeton University
"In the Aftermath of the 'Divine Winds': The Mongol Threat and Buddhist Re-imaginings of Japan"

XXXII 2006
Timothy Barrett
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Climate Change and Religious Response: The Case of Early Medieval China"

XXXI 2004
Michael Friedrich
Hamburg University
"Perceptions of Chinese Buddhism in the East and West"

XXX 2003
John Strong
Bates College
"Buddhist Relics in Comparative Perspective"

XXIX 2002
Victor Mair
University of Pennsylvania
"Of Sheep and Goats and Chinese Values: The Seminal Significance of Ovicaprids"

XXVIII 2000
Paul Harrison
University of Canterbury
"Buddhist Visions of Perfection: Interpreting the Earliest Sources of the Sukhavati Tradition"

XXVII 1995
David Keightley
University of California, Berkeley
"'Reding' and 'Riting': The Endurance of the Sacred in Neolithic and Bronze-Age China"

XXVI 1993
Lee Yearley
Stanford University
On the occasion of his accession to the Evans-Wentz Chair
"Confrontations Among Religions and New Religious Virtues"

XXV 1993
Hubert Durt
Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
"The Bodhisattva as Prince: Royal Ideology in Mahayana Buddhism"

XXIV 1992
Melford Spiro
University of California, San Diego
"Is the Western Concept of the Self 'Peculiar' Within the Context of World Cultures?"

XXIII 1991
Gregory Schopen
University of Indiana
"Archeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of the History of Indian Buddhism"

XXII 1989
Yanagida Seizan
Kyoto University
"Early Ch'an and the Lotus Sutra"

XXI 1989
Michel Strickmann
University of California, Berkeley
"Apocalypse in China: Medieval Visions of the World and Its Destiny"
Three lectures
1988

XX
Anna Seidel
Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient
"Corruptible Body, Incorruptible Body, Substitute Body: Modes of Immortality in China"

XIX 1987
Benjamin Schwartz
Harvard University
"Ancient Chinese Religion: Some Comparative Perspectives"

XVIII 1986
Lewis Lancaster
University of California, Berkeley
"The Rock Cut buddhist Canon of Fang-Shan: The Making and Preservation of Scripture"

XVII 1985
David Carrasco
University of Colorado
"A Fearful Symmetry: Aztec Temple, Aztec Sky"

XVI 1984
David Nivison
Stanford University
On the occasion of his accession to the Evans-Wentz Chair
"Golden Rule Arguments in Chinese Philosophy"

XV 1983
Luiz Gomez
University of Michigan
"Three Buddhist Creeds: Approaches to the Interpretation of Buddhist Doctrinal Formulae"
Three lectures

XIV 1982
Anthony Yu
University of Chicago
"Pilgrimage and Allegory in The Journey to the West"

XIII 1981
Frank Waters
Independent scholar
"Symbols and Sacred Mountains"

XII 1980
David Nivison
Stanford University
"Investigations in Chinese Philosophy"
Three Lectures

XI 1978
Lee Yearley
Stanford University
"Classical Confucians and Traditional Christians"

X 1978
Wendy O'Flaherty
University of California, Berkeley
and
Nancy Falk
Western Michigan State University
"Images of Women: South Asia"
Two lectures

IX 1977
Herbert Fingarette
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Can There Be Life Without Suffering?"
Three Lectures

VIII 1975
Vishwanath Naravane
University of Poona
"Indian Culture: Its Adapatations to the Aryans, to the Muslims, to the West"

VII 1975
Stephan Beyer
University of Wisconsin
"Religious Symbolism in Tibetan Masked Dance"

VI 1974
Joseph Kitagawa
University of Chicago
"Religion in Japanese Culture"
Two lectures

V 1973
Joseph Kitagawa
University of Chicago
"Religion in Japanese Culture"
Two lectures

IV 1972
Frank Reynolds
University of Chicago
"Cosmology and Salvation in Theravada Buddhism"

III 1971
Padmanah Jaini
University of Michigan
"Omniscience and Salvation in the Atheistic Religions of India"
Three lectures

II 1970
Donald Monro
University of Michigan
"The Concept of Man in Communist China and Chinese Educational Theory"
Four lectures

I 1969
Holmes Welch
Harvard University
"Facades of Religion in China"

Special events sponsored by the Evans-Wentz Lectureship

"Tuṣita Heaven: Closer than the Pure Land? Xuanzang's Worship of Maitreya." A seminar with Funayama Tōru (Tokyo). 2009

"Sufi Music: South Asian Qawwali and Debates on Music in Islam." A symposium with Shemeem Burney Abbas, Salman Ahmad, Linda Hess, Scott Kugle, James Newell, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Lorraine Sakata, Natalie Sarrazin, Homayra Ziad. 2006.

"Krishna in Springtime." A symposium with Edwin Bryant, Tracy Coleman, and Archana Venkatesan. 2005.

"The Roots of Inner Alchemy." A conference with Ben Brose, Stephen Bokenkamp, George Clonos, Albert Dien, Monica Esposito, Bernard Faure, Donald Harper, Katô Chie, Mark Lewis, Fabrizio Pregadio, James Robson, Harold Roth, and Haun Saussy. 2003.

"Early Indian Religions: Interactions." A Conference with Wendy Donniger, Padmanah Jaini, Patrick Olivelle, Gregory Schopen, Fred Smith, Frits Staal, Kristi Wiley, and Liz Wilson. 1999.

"Buddhist Priests, Kings, and Marginals." A conference with Abe Ryuichi, Abe Yasurô, David Bialock, Bernard Faure, Allan Grapard, Thomas Hare, Hosokawa Ryoichi, Iyanaga Nobumi, Susan Matisof, Charles Orzech, Fabio Rambelli, Brian Ruppert, Sakurai Yoshiro, and John Strong. 1999.

"New Approaches to Buddhism: Three Recent Works." A symposium with Steven Collins, Collet Cox, Janet Gyatso, Charles Hallisey, Donald Lopez, and Robert Sharf. 1998.

"Recent Work in Buddhist Studies." A symposium with Alan Cole, Steven Collins, Allan Grapard, Matthew Kapstein, Gregory Schopen, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan. 1997.

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