Erik Braun @erkbraun.bsky.social
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social JPP is a global information hub and digital repository that promotes research & teaching in Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders. https://japanpastandpresent.org/
Lotsawa House @lotsawahouse.org The Home of Tibetan Buddhist Texts in Translation. More than 6000 texts in nine languages. https://www.lotsawahouse.org/
Tsadra Foundation @tsadrafoundation.bsky.social Tsadra Foundation is a privately funded nonprofit trust established in New York City in 2000. We provide vital funding for the combined study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the west. Check out our public offerings on buddhanature.org or Tsadra.org
Madhura Balasubramaniam @madhurab.bsky.social PhD scholar | State-making at Indo-Tibetan Borderlands | Contributes to Tibetscapes | Excited by paperwork & puppies 🐶🐾
Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social The mission of the Amdo Research Network (ARN) is to connect scholars and advance research on the multicultural region of Amdo.
Tsering Samdrup ཚེ་རིང་བསམ་གྲུབ། @samdrup.bsky.social Curator of Tibetan Collections @British Library; pragmatics; Tibetan language and culture; amateur musician
@toddpmarek.bsky.social @toddpmarek.bsky.social (འཇམ་དབྱངས་ནོར་བུ། 马陶德) Anthro PhD. Tibetan Medicine in Amdo ཨ་མདོ and beyond. #linganth #medanth #STS
Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social AuDHD & PhD. anthropology, language, power. he/him
New book: The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501777783/the-politics-of-language-oppression-in-tibet/
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2410-351X
Swati Chawla, Ph.D. @swatichawla.bsky.social Historian (Himalaya, migration, Buddhisms, DH); Associate Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, via @scholarslab.bsky.social, UVa History, and Sacred Writes.
Robert Barnett @robbiebarnett.bsky.social Professor & Senior Research Associate, SOAS University of London; Affiliate Lecturer, Kings College London; Modern Tibetan Studies, Columbia 1998-2018
High Peaks Pure Earth @hpeaks.bsky.social "Ocean, As Much As Rain" by Tsering Woeser - published by Duke University Press OUT NOW 🌧️ https://linktr.ee/highpeakspureearth
Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Museology and 2026 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism #Provenance
Ruth Gamble @ruthgamble.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Educator.
Association of Nepal & Himalayan Studies (ANHS) @anhs-himalaya.bsky.social An academic organization devoted to the study of Nepal and wider Himalaya–Tibet, Sikkim, Ladakh, Bhutan. Publisher of Himalaya, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal. Provider of grants & prizes for students and scholars. https://anhs-himalaya.org
The Digital Orientalist @digitalorientalist.bsky.social https://digitalorientalist.com
Dedicated to discovering and sharing insights on digital humanities in an inclusive environment! Join us・انضم إلينا・参加しませんか・bize katıl・kasance tare damu. 🗃️ 🌐
Diana Lange @wiselange.bsky.social Professor for History and Cultures of Central Asia/ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ Tibetan and Himalayan Studies/ East Asian Studies/ Maps and Mapping/ Material and Visual Culture/ Transport History- N @nicolewillock.bsky.social @nicolewillock.bsky.social
Dr. Seth Ligo @drseth.bsky.social Asst. Teaching Professor
South Asian Religions / Buddhism
Penn State- A Antje @antjii.bsky.social Subject specialist for Central Asia at Berlin State Library
@robertmayer.bsky.social @robertmayer.bsky.social
@alicetravers.bsky.social @alicetravers.bsky.social
SFEMT @sfemt.bsky.social Société Française d'Etudes du Monde Tibétain, fondée en 2012.
The French Society for Tibetan Studies is an association founded in 2012
Plus d'infos / more information here: https://www.sfemt.fr/
Chandra Chiara Ehm @chandrachiara.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at EFEO, CNRS _CRCAO. Tibetologist and cultural anthropologist. Tibetan Buddhist Monasticism. Secularism. Social change.
Patrick Lambelet @jigmelamb.bsky.social Professor of Buddhist Studies (Maitripa College), translator, editor. PhD UC Santa Barbara
Focus on Tibetan Buddhism | Vajrayana | Buddhist philosophy, practice, auto/biography, and poetry | religion and culture | environmentalism. Also a music nerd.
Daniel Wojahn @danielwojahn.bsky.social Associate Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (@ox.ac.uk) and for the Tibetan Manuscript Project Vienna (@istb-univienna.bsky.social)
Editor for the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social
Ariana M @arianam.bsky.social Himalayan & South Asian material culture, Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist art & ritual. Fulbright Scholar (2x) & NEH-Mellon Fellow. Also likes: digital humanities, open access, Pictured Rocks. lifeofthebuddha.org | bhutan.virginia.edu
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
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
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.
Connie Kassor @ckassor.bsky.social i'm not entirely sure.
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
Alison @alisonmelnickdyer.bsky.social History of Religions Prof., Buddhism, Drikung Kagyu, Spinner of fibers wool, Bees
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.
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
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
Frances Garrett @francesg.bsky.social Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Toronto. Will not comply in advance.
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 😌✨