I'm so excited about the work the Crossroads Project fellows have done and hope you will check out the new projects and teaching resource.

Sept 11 - Friends in Buddhist Studies and beyond - @rhcraig.bsky.social will be speaking at the Ho Center at @utoronto.ca on Dharma preachers of the Indian Buddhist Mahāyāna and the Dharma preacher Tina Turner! buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca/events/inspi...

Happy Birthday, big guy.

#JohnNemec presents his new book on brahmins and kings, and the role of narratives within Sanskrit philosophy: indianphilosophyblog.org/2025/04/21/b...

Time to start explicitly saying what used to be implicit (and what I regard to be the ethical limits of this sort of thing). From a paper I'm working on for next week's confererence.

I am excited for this online discussion on March 23rd with the Barre Center For Buddhist Studies about my book Dancing in My Dreams (@eerdmansbooks), and American Religion through the lens of @tinaturner! www.buddhistinquiry.org/classes/2025...

Tell me BBC America ain’t petty. 🤭

The Robert H. No foundation finances up to 2/3 of new professorships in Buddhist studies! www.acls.org/competitions... Perhaps @jamesabenn.bsky.social can help me spread the news? Or @histphilosophy.bsky.social ? Or @rhcraig.bsky.social ?

Do you study religion, gender and/or sexuality? Consider applying to this amazing program. Deadline is Dec 16, 2024. If you can’t do this one, there will be 3 MORE this year! Sacred Writes is open to all religion scholars regardless of citizenship. www.sacred-writes.org/apply?fbclid...

I had the great honor of meeting Nikki Giovanni in high school. She spent a whole class session with us, had lunch with us, and then gave one of the most powerful talks I have ever heard. We thank her for her insight, her power, and her graciousness. Now, may she soar on into the great unknown! 🕊️🕊️🕊️

I have been looking forward to reading @protass.bsky.social’s new book!

11. Author meets critics roundtable: Ralph H. Craig III: Dancing in My Dreams: A spiritual biography of Tina Turner. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm with @rhcraig.bsky.social 12. The Anthropology of Buddhism. Sunday 12:30-2:30pm.

Looking forward to presenting this weekend at AAR this weekend alongside some brilliant scholars, such as @nwitkowski.bsky.social, @adeanamcn.bsky.social, and others!

BuddhaNexus 2.0 is maturing and will be ready for release soon! This is going to be 🔥🔥🔥

NEW Article: "Translating Charismatic Bodies as Erotic Bodies: A Study of Revolutionary Agency and Counterrevolutionary Reception in Buddhist Legal Codes for Monastic Women." DOWNLOAD HERE: tinyurl.com/mw6k6jhy #monasticwomen #IndianBuddhism #ChineseBuddhism #translating women from India to China

How can we be purposeful and impactful in teaching at institutions with smaller library collections? In today's #NCCSpotlight Dr. Asuka Sango (Carleton College) shares insights into her collections-based teaching of Buddhist manuscript culture with students! 📿 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

My #Buddhism book, Of Ancestors and Ghosts, is currently on sale for #SBLAAR24. Use promo code EXAAR24 for 40% off at Oxford University Press: oxford.ly/40uQpHm

Lots of new followers in the last several days, so between that and the rollout of the new threading feature, this seems as good a time as any to plug a new book that I co-edited with @mcmullen.bsky.social. It’s the New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions. uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-ne...

Meanwhile, the British Library exhibition has a kind of soundtrack: idp.bl.uk/blog/contemp...

And for those whose work focuses on South Asia, any culture, tradition, or discipline—though likely humanities and social sciences at its core go.bsky.app/BugNwc7 This list too is a work in progress; please comment to be added or suggest adds. #southasia #academia #asianstudies #humanities

Proofs for my next publication are in. A chapter on Wen Tingyun 溫庭筠 for the Routledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature, ed. Victor Mair and Zhenjun Zhang.

Finished my last day of teaching yesterday @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social. Looking forward to starting my tenure-track position at #WhitmanCollege in August!

Hey friends who work in philosophy or the cognitive sciences. I will be teaching a 4-week module of a course on attention next fall, and my task is to introduce the question: what is attention. What are your favorite papers addressing this question from a philosophical or scientific POV

🚨Do yourself a favor: go and pre-order @adeanamcn.bsky.social’s forthcoming book 🔥🔥🔥

Check out the AAR's Black History Month reading list, which includes two excellent and essential books on Buddhism, @rhcraig.bsky.social's religious biography of Tina Turner, "Dancing in My Dreams," and Rima Vesely-Flad's "Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition" (which I recently reviewed).

Thank you!!! Was so great to celebrate with you all!

The absolute thrill of finding your own book in Barnes & Noble! 📕: www.eerdmans.com/978080287863... 📕: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dancing-in...

Lend me your ears 🙌🏿

At long last, publication day is here: my religious biography of Tina Turner is released today! It feels surreal; at the same time, it feels right that the book is released six months after she joined the ancestors in the realm she called “the beyond.” 🕊️ www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/

Faculty: we need more TT lines, better pay for grad students & support staff, research funds & money for the libraries Chancellors: what I’m hearing is you want us to pay a consulting firm to do a climate survey, launch a new LMS, redo the uni website, & make every class hybrid