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ちくわ大明神 was a RIDE

Rosemary G Feal 27m • ₫8 From Leah Middlebrook: NEH related news: If you are on a rescinded grant, take a look at the terms and conditions of the letter you signed when you accepted the award. Everyone I have been talking to has language in there stating that if the grant is terminated or rescinded, the recipient has 30 days to send in an end-of-fellowship/grant report (I don't have the language in front of me, but go back and take a look). Awardees also have 30 days to appeal. We're 2 weeks in, so the deadline is in about 2 weeks. If you haven't talked this matter over with the sponsored projects office on your campus, it's a good idea to do that asap. A few items to talk over: filing a FOIA request for notes/materials relevant to the termination; the question of whether filing a final report precludes resumption of the grant; question of whether to take the time away from your research to do the work of filing an appeal (some sponsored projects offices are doing that work for affected faculty and researchers). This is what I gleaned from a recent conversation. All corrections/caveats welcome in the comments

Apologies for cross-posting, but here’s some advice for people with NEH grants

Donate to Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom, organized by Suzanne Fernando We are extremely sad to announce that our friend, Michael Ium, suddenly passed a… Suzanne Fernando needs your support for Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom

Friends and colleagues of Dr. Michael Ium, who passed away unexpectedly last week at the age of 41, please consider donating to help Michael's mother offset the sudden financial burden related to his passing. Please share widely.

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Monumental visit! ❤️

Impossibly rich color

Fields and low-rise homes at a distance in grey and blue with orange flames in the distance.

Dying over these colors 🤩

Manzairaku Ansei kenmonshi
萬歲樂安政見聞誌 (1856?)

More here: repository.duke.edu/catalog/1578...

BDK America Let's seek to understand Buddhism better! BDK America is the U.S. branch of the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai), an international organization founded in Japan. As a non-se...

BDK America's YT channel has launched! We'll b posting videos from the "Mutually Sustaining Life" & "The Buddhist Way of Life" TV series.

Plz sub, share, & like to help spread the dharma!

The videos r older so the resolution is crunchy, but the content is still great for class or self-study.

Burning Questions: On Collecting the Stuff of Latinx/e Religion by Jeffrey Sanchez I often visit my family in Texas during the sticky, hot, and humid summer months. Though it may be close to suffocatingly hot, the only place hotter (both literally and figurativ…

So many candles, so many reasons for lighting. Collecting Religion’s newest essay is live: “Burning Questions” by Jeffrey Sanchez (Stanford University). collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...

Dedicated folks at the #AAS2025 Columbus homebase like @amldavisann.bsky.social are working hard for you to have a delightful time! Check out the Columbus excursions available to @asianstudies.org participants! Don't miss the Cartoon Library, art museum, & more! www.asianstudies.org/conference/c...

Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an eme…

Recently published by Natasha Heller: Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera...

Maybe my fave spot!

a picture of a parrot beside four dishes containing saria, or pear-like relics from its cremation. Caption in picture "We know about its rebirth [in the pure land] after its cremation as there were sarias left behind"

Here's a modern chinese miracle tale of a buddhist parrot: its owner taught the parrot to do Nembutsu. When the parrot died and was cremated, they found saria- or relics - in its ashes, indicating it was reborn in Amithaba's pure land.
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The @asianlibrarynl.bsky.social is one of several global institutions that participates in our Japan Art Catalog Project to enhance access to rare and hard to find Japanese art catalogs! 🖼️ With now over 5,600 items, we’re grateful for their support of the field! ✨ guides.nccjapan.org/japanartcata...

The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy

We are very excited to welcome Kay Shimizu to the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School to talk about her book, "The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy" (co-authored with Ulrike Shaede). We hope you can join us!

munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/digita...

Libraries out here doing that good work, still

A bridge crosses over a body of water surrounded by trees and high-rise apartment buildings; text (APSI seeks postdoctoral associate researching environmental and climate studies in Asia); application URL and deadline

We're hiring! APSI seeks a postdoctoral scholar with training in a humanities or social science discipline whose research concerns environmental and climate studies in Asia.
Apply @ academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29581
The one-year position begins FA25.

Just finally left X, feeling like a million bucks

👇 Essay on why I'm drawn to collecting 100-year-old paper with Buddhist imagery on it.
Many thanks to @secondhandsacred.bsky.social and @matthew-hayes.bsky.social! They've collected many wonderful essays by Religious Studies scholars exploring personal collecting habits, research, & teaching.
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Appreciate this!! 🙏🏻

My contribution to Collecting Religion focuses on book materiality, the role of the collector as preservationist, and how building a personal collection of Buddhist books sometimes feels like taming a wild animal. 📿 📖

Excerpt of Meiji-era Buddhist journal article about the study of esoteric Buddhism with the ruby text for “petty scholar.”

You know someone’s getting dragged when the ruby comes out 😂

Front cover of Dento, a Buddhist journal, with green title label to left and journal title top center.

Picture of start of printed essay by Hase Hoshu.

🚨 Mail arrived! I bought this 1898 issue of Dentо̄ 傳燈 because of this essay by Hase Hо̄shū 長谷寶秀 (1869-1948), written at age 29. Looking forward to reading!

Young child playing with live cicadas on a porch.

Heaping bowl of cicada husks.

The world is one fire but seeing my youngest, a huge bug enthusiast, delight in the 13-year-brood cicada emergence is a personal salve. He’s spent the last week setting up “staring contests” and collecting probably more than 300 husks from our yard.

EA Buddhist texts tend to have a fairly standardized and narrow pool of vocabulary, esp. compared to other types of historical documents. Once you see the patterns, it gets easier! ☺️

Prepping for a translation of Birushana bussettsu kōngo chōkyō kōmyō shingon giki 毘盧遮那佛説金剛頂経光明真言儀軌, attributed to Fuju 福聚 (1686-1765) but contested. It'll accompany six other translations (by others) focused on the Kōmyō Shingon, hopefully out next year!

Interesting #snes #famicon game from long ago, "Fudomyooden", translated at "Demon Sword", although there's nothing demonic about Fudomyo-ou. Better translated as "The Legend of Acala". The the original TV CM includes some cool mudra, can be watched on the bad platform: twitter.com/isyumail/sta...

Been looking forward to this one!

Yes, it’s from the Shingon school! Literature like this was part of a movement that began in the 1890s to re-envision the priestly role among laity. The promotion of lay oriented practices was a big part of this, as was a new emphasis on preaching.

🚨Just unpacked the Zaike gongyō hōsoku kōwa 在家勤行法則講話 (1928). The broad overview on lay oriented practices comprises chapter 5 and the rest is narrowly focused on go-eika 御詠歌, wasan 和讃, and raimon 禮文. The staples give me anxiety.