Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats: Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.
Sarasvatī @natureofmind.bsky.social A transient inhabitant of this ephemeral world
Believer in Karma
Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net Resist Rebel Revolt! Anti-Fascist. Author. Philosopher. Dog-Mom. Utilitarian Democrat. Existential Activist.
https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
Organized 3 Abortion Marches
Past President of Women's Non-Profit
Past Secretary of LGBTQIA Org
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Tenzin Trepp @tenz.in 📸 Photographer & Alpinist
✍️ Author of multiple books: tenz.in/books
⏰ Originator of Existential Realism: tenz.in/er
💭 Philosopher of Time & Cognition
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Tenzin Yangzom @yangzom.bsky.social Campaigns with @tibetnetwork.bsky.social! #FreeTibet #FreeHongKong #FreeEastTurkistan
Tenzin Peljor @tenzinpeljor.bsky.social Buddhist monk
www.tenzinpeljor.de
Karma Rinpoche @martialartssutra.bsky.social Tibetan Canadian, reluctant Buddhist nun, looking for love, co-founder of Nerd Net with @wickidatnerdnet.bsky.social and @discoduckgandolf.bsky.social
https://www.facebook.com/karmarampoch
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Ria Marie @msmariestillfree.bsky.social Partless particles aside, no mud no lotus
Interests
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meditation 🧘 yoga 🕉️
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low mow gardening 🌻🌱
songwriting & rain gardens
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Fuligo @fuligo2.bsky.social Leftist theory, Eastern philosophy, Mahamudra, science, Deleuze drippings and Guattari gravy. (Well ) Over 21 He/him/they
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Pema Chöga @mariecari.bsky.social human, woman, lesbian, progressive/leftist, aspiring to do good in a world of suffering, practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition. #BeKind #SkillfulMeans #Act No DMs please!
Eduwyn @eduwyn.bsky.social #Literature, #philosophy, rippling thoughts and questions flow abundantly here.
Drink from the fountain of #inspiration and let your mind sparkle with creativity. Prosit.
Tathagata @dipamkara.bsky.social
Olga Nenazhivina Art 👩🎨 @nenazhivina.com 👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️
Mostly drawings ✍️
Vegan 🌱🫶
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Jrat Nunya @jratnunya.bsky.social Defeated but has no shame.
Stubborn but has no pride.
Endures but has no courage.
trolls and what-appear-to-be-thirstbots deked without explanation.
Trixie Jones @trixie-jones.bsky.social I don’t smoke. Unless it’s a really, really good smoke
OLIGARCHS OUT
Samantha Slade @heysamslade.bsky.social Dancer, dreamer, mom, connector, communicator.
I produce the 5Rhythms in Philly. That means I am on the move. 💃✨ Cultivating stillness in chaos.
“I am not going anywhere; I am only on my way.” - Siddhartha, Hesse
Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social Physics, philosophy, complexity. @jhuartssciences.bsky.social & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest books: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
https://preposterousuniverse.com/- D David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social
Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social Philosophy Prof. Heretical Christian. Author of "Why? The Purpose of the Universe" & "Galileo's Error." "One of the most persuasive panpsychists" - Stephen Fry.
Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
Kate Lingley 龍梅若 @klingley.bsky.social Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social She/her. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Historian of Buddhism in South Asia and the United States
Author, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
Joel Bordeaux🌹জোয়েল বোর্দো @joelbordeaux.bsky.social Humanities / Social Sciences researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.
Andrew Quintman @andrewquintman.bsky.social Buddhism in Tibet & Himalaya | Religion Dept @ Wesleyan U | The Yogin & the Madman | The Life of Milarepa | http://journaloftibetanliterature.org | http://lifeofthebuddha.org | www.andrewquintman.com | #TibetanStudies #BuddhistStudies #seakayaking
Trine Brox @trineb.bsky.social
Tsering Shakya @tshakya.bsky.social All things Tibet and Tibetans! ངས་རང་ཉིད་ནི་ཁྱི་ཞིག་ཡིན་པར་ངོས་འཛིན།།
Dagmar Schwerk @dagmarschwerk.bsky.social Professor of Tibetology (with TT) at Leipzig University, Tibetan/Bhutanese Buddhism/History, Engaged Buddhism and the Climate Crisis, own views, passionate violinist, she/her
Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/
Support open-access projects:
http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
Hillary Langberg @hlangberg.bsky.social National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholar. Lover of Paul, Grey Sculptures from India, Rooms a Thousand Years Wide. Religions of South Asia, Goddess Traditions. Writer, Singer, Postdoc (she/her)
Frederik Schröer @frederikschroeer.bsky.social Historian of Emotions in Buddhism, India, Tibet; Environmental History; History of Concepts. 🏳️🌈
Kate Hartmann @kateahart.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Wyoming | PhD Harvard 2020 | drkatehartmann.com for research and teaching, strava for running and mtb
Natalie M Avalos @nataliemavalos.bsky.social Native/Indigenous Studies | Tibetan/Buddhist Studies | Ethnographer of Religion | Land-based Ethics | Decolonization | Asst Prof of Ethnic Studies at CUBoulder ✨ Chicana-Indígena | Views My Own
Susan Dine @susandine.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.
Alice Casalini @alicecasalini.bsky.social Art Historian at UChicago | Buddhist Art of Gandhāra, Northern India, and Western China | Visual Artist | Cat Connoisseur
Jenn Ortegren @jennortegren.bsky.social Associate Prof of Religion at Middlebury College; Hinduism, Islam in India, ethnography, gender, and class. Author of *Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism.* Most skeets sarcastic.
elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social Sanskrit (and) philosophy. Permanently in beta phase. Blogging at http://elisafreschi.com and http://indianphilosophyblog.org. Articles at PhilPapers Here to learn & share
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
Geoff Barstow @thelostyak.bsky.social Scholar of #Buddhism, #Tibet, #vegetarianism, and #animals.
Yael Rice @yaelrice.bsky.social Art historian researching and teaching pre-modern Islamic South Asia and West Asia. Portable objects, books, dh, museums, and cats, not necessarily in that order.
Justin Whitaker @justinwhitaker.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Buddhistdoor Global (BDG); PhD in Buddhist ethics from U London, writer on Pali Buddhism and interfaith dialogue
Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️
Scholar of Asian religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Postdoc Fellow in Asian Media Studies @ University of Idaho | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
Joy Brennan @joybrennan.bsky.social Reading and writing Buddhist philosophy, esp Yogacara & Zen. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center (https://www.kokosingzencenter.org/), raising my daughter, learning the native trees & plants of central Ohio
aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈 @sudasana.bsky.social 無子養貓居士
Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, University of Manchester
Teaching about China, writing about Chinese Buddhist mass media in the modern era
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8138-0866
Ray Buckner @raymoishe.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Queer and Trans Studies of Contemporary Buddhism. Dissertation: “Sensual Materialities: Buddhist Art and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok”
Scott Mitchell 教楽 @djbuddha.bsky.social teller of dad jokes, keeper of cats, president of America’s oldest Buddhist seminary, wrote the book on American Buddhism (literally)
http://djbuddha.org
Levi McLaughlin @levimclaughlin.bsky.social Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
Matthew McMullen @mcmullen.bsky.social Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
Elsa Cuillé 崔靄莎 @elsacuille.bsky.social PhD candidate at the EPHE, Paris. Medieval China and Religious Studies. Obsessed with 太平廣記. Rituals and religious practices in anomaly accounts.
Paulina (Paula) Kolata @paulakolata.bsky.social Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, US. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food.
Megan Bryson @meganbryson.bsky.social Chinese religions, University of Tennessee
Simona Lazzerini @simonalazzerini.bsky.social Shinjo Ito Postdoc, UC Berkeley | PhD Religious Studies, Stanford University |Chinese and Japanese Buddhism | Hārītī 鬼子母神 | Demonology and creepy stuff 👹 | Italiana 🇮🇹 She/her
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) @buddhistdoor.bsky.social Posts from the international Buddhist journal Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) buddhistdoor.net : offerings of news, insights, and commentary on Buddhist practice, thought, history, and culture. Welcome!
Latest posts: https://bio.site/buddhistdoor
Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social Exploring the circulation of Buddhist material culture in Western historical media, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social.
📜 #buddhasinthewest
🌟 Summer Hiatus 🏖️
Sebastian Nehrdich @snehrdich.bsky.social CTO of the MITRA project @BAIR, UC Berkeley.
Research in ancient Asian low resource languages, especially text reuse, machine translation, semantic similarity search.
Buddhist studies MA, now PhD in computational linguistics @Duesseldorf university.
Matthaeus Tomasevici 🥨 馬太 @covrig.bsky.social Historian of Chinese religions
Religion, philosophy, West Europe, East Asia and everything in between. Mostly dad jokes, bad humor and memes - mostly memes. Curious, asking questions and using this platform to know more people.
Caleb Carter @calebscarter.bsky.social Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, religious graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Adam S. Pearcey @adamspearcey.com PhD | Translator of Tibetan Buddhist texts | In-House lotsawa @lotsawahouse.org | https://adamspearcey.com
OTANI Yuka / 大谷 由香 🍄🕊️ @yukao1218.bsky.social I ♥ 仏教学
Brian Ruppert @brianruppert.bsky.social Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).
Kiyonori Nagasaki @knagasaki.bsky.social 永崎研宣/ Intl. Institute for Digital Humanities, Japan/ Professor of LIS in Keio University
Nick Jones @nicholaos.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy. Interests in Chinese Buddhism, systems sciences, metaphysics.
http://youtube.com/@thenickjones
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/metaphors-for-interdependence-9780197807194
井上 陽 |𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑒 @ainowuye.bsky.social 浄土真宗僧侶。大学教員。専門はインド仏教。フィールドに出るのが生きがいみたいなもの。趣味は冒険的旅行と、様々な国の料理を作ること。好きな言葉は「愛念愛思苦胸次/詩文忘却無一字/唯有悟道無道心/今日猶愁沈生死」(一休)
Erica Baffelli @baffellierica.bsky.social Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social SORAAAD.org, allowing people to gather w/o being religious since 2011. Qual Research on Religion, Religion-like stuff, and Religion & stuff best not studied as religious but key to understanding those doing, being, saying & feeling stuff labeled religion
Jann Ronis @jannr.bsky.social Buddhist Digital Resource Center (bdrc.io), Tibetan Studies, Digital Humanities, literature, swimming, coffee, travel, San Francisco... Joined in November '24
Laurent Van Cutsem 方洛杭 @vancutseml.bsky.social BOF Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent Univ. | Premodern Chan/Zen Buddhism (ca. 750-1050), Dunhuang manuscripts, DH (TEI editions and HSNA). http://laurentvancutsem.com | Tea, Nature, and Landscape Photography.
Tao Jiang @taojiangscholar.bsky.social Prof of Classical Chinese Phil & Mahāyāna Buddhist Phil at Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, US; Books: "Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China" & "Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on Subliminal Mind" amzn.to/3bzJ2qU
taojiangscholar.com
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Halle O'Neal @halleoneal.bsky.social Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
Deborah Sutton @debssutton.bsky.social Teaches South Asian History at Lancaster University, UK. Currently working on deserts in India, especially soils, water and salination. Delhiphile and runner.
William McGrath @wmcgrath.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at New York University | Tibet and China | Religion and Medicine
Nicola Bianco @nicolabi.bsky.social Cultural Anthropology, Buddhology, Japan, Linguistics, Media, Folklore, Western Alps, Autism
Paul Fuller @buddhismviews.bsky.social Lecturer in Buddhist Studies in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Tori Montrose @torimontrose.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at #FurmanUniversity
Japanese and Global Buddhism, Buddhist education and modernization, new religious movements.
Nature 🌲comedy nerd 🤓 dance parties 💃🏻podcasts 🎧 reformed pessimist 😌✨
Kerry Lucinda Brown, PhD @kerrylucinda.bsky.social Specialist in South Asian & Himalayan art (Nepalese and Buddhist visual culture), promoting engagement with global art histories through innovative teaching and research. Associate Chair, Art History, SCAD - Savannah. https://bio.site/KerryLucindaBrown
Mareike Wulff @mareikewulff.bsky.social social-& cultural anthropologist / ethnographer / bhutan & himalayan studies / buddhist studies / endangered languages documentation / material culture/ visual anthropology / uni of sydney/
https://sydney.academia.edu/MareikeWulff
Jessica Locke @jesslockephd.bsky.social Philosophy, Buddhism, Baltimore. PhD at Emory, Associate Prof of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland
Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
Bernat Font @bernatfont.bsky.social PhD in Buddhist Studies, dharma teacher & jazz musician. Based in Chiang Mai.
www.dharma.cat
Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com Historian of Buddhism, political thought, and gender in medieval Sri Lanka. Kiwi in Heidelberg. Big fan of nice maps.
He/Er/ඔහු/அவர்
Prof. Pierce Salguero @piercesalguero.bsky.social Author, scholar, teacher, fan, and critic of Buddhism & Asian medicine. 📖 I'm not active here, so come find me at piercesalguero.com. ☀️
Jessie Starling @jstarling.bsky.social Chair of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark | Author of Guardians of the Buddha's Home | Research interests: being a Buddhist laywoman in modern Japan; ethics and emotions in religious volunteerism; religion in public in contemporary Japan
Jessica Zu @jessicaxzu.bsky.social scholar of Buddhist studies, jogger, writer, sci-fi fan, meditator
Michael Sheehy @mclsheehy.bsky.social Director of Research @ Contemplative Sciences Center, University of Virginia | phenomenology | Tibetan Buddhism | michaelrsheehy.com