Hwei Tai Seminars in Buddhist Studies
a program of
faculty and graduate student seminars
supported by
the Hwei Tai Fund for Buddhist Studies
in the Department of Religious Studies
administered by HCBSS

coming 2009-10
Daniel Stevenson
University of Kansas
"Pure Land Buddhism in the Song Dynasty"

2008-09
Funayama Tōru
Kyoto University
"The Tuṣita Heaven: Closer than the Pure Land? Xuanzang's Worship of Maitreya"

2007-08
John Kieschnick
Bristol University
"Recent Works on Chinese Buddhism"

2006-07
Jan Nattier
Soka University
"The Bodhisattva Stages in Early Mahayana Texts"

2003-04
Noa Ronkin
Stanford University
"Philosophy and Psychology in Early Theravada"

2002-03
Mimi Yiengpruksawan
Yale University
"Bringing Out the Buddha: Iconographies and Iconologies of Buddhist Practice"

2001-02
Griffith Foulk
Sarah Lawrence College
"Buddhist Monastic Rules in East Asia"

2000-01
Fabio Rambelli
Sapporo University
"Texts, Tools, Rituals: Reikiki and the World of Medieval Japanese Religion"