The Kuroda Institute is pleased to announce a symposium on Nov 21 to honor Peter Gregory—use the QR to access the full program

Franz Metcalf @franzmetcalf.bsky.social reviews Natasha Heller's @nlheller.bsky.social new book on Buddhist picture books for children. "These books become the material form of modern family Buddhism, giving rise to new practices rooted not in the temple but in the home." Accessible Link

My review of Don Lopez’s amazing new history of Buddhism

State Sen. Creigh Deeds asks the BOV: “What is your understanding of the importance of shared governance in a university? What is your understanding of the significance of having lost the confidence of the people who educate students in that university?” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

A simple idea: faculty should be represented in the search for UVa’s next president: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

To be clear, the Olympic swimmer is not the problem. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

I am annoyed by people who write in library books but especially astounded by this—at least it is not in pen!

We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.

The title is a little misleading, but this is a clear explanation of what’s happened at UVa. TLDR: the people appointed or elected to represent the University are in fact its opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...

Polo Buddies and Rental Cabs: The Donkeys of Tang China and Their Poetic Destinies www.medievalists.net/2022/06/donk... #MedievalChina

More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"

This policy, which is so real it was published on the State Department's actual website and not its Substack, is about as bad a policy as one could imagine for American national security and prosperity. The Rubio of 4 months ago would call it insane. Which it is. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Academic friends, how do you think about summer writing? What strategies or resources have been useful for you? What are the biggest challenges?

In 1871, Harper’s Weekly published a wood engraving depicting the interior of a San Francisco Chinese temple, a rare print subject before the 1906 earthquake. Clues suggest it shows the main hall of Eastern Glory Temple located off Jackson St. on St. Louis Alley. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Chinatown

On this farm and creamery run by Hindu devotees and modeled after a traditional Indian gaushala, both soil and soul are cultivated with God in mind. religionnews.com/2025/04/25/o...

Pitches for this are due Sunday. If you know someone who might want to contribute, please share this with them!

Want to brush up on your skills about fighting back against repression and political interference in #highered? Join an online session for the April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd. Register: www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits." what! www.popsci.com/environment/...

“The fires gutted the 1,300-year-old Gounsa temple in Uiseong city”

"For Western scholars of China, the era before the pandemic now feels like a distant golden age." Yanzhong Huang on the withering of academic engagement with China thanks to domestic factors in both countries, as well as heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington.

The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.

I love our library

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

Thomas Jefferson's Monticello design notebook from 1771 contains a description for a "Chinese temple" - it was never built. Loosely based on Chinese Buddhist pagodas, this would have been an open air gazebo (sometimes also called a pagoda). #ManuscriptMondays 🗃️

@arianam.bsky.social could you add me to the Buddhism starter pack?

Writing a book on East Asian Buddhism and need support to finish it? Apply for the Kuroda Institute Manuscript Completion Grant, which provides funds for developmental editing, line editing for non-native speakers, manuscript workshops, child/eldercare, and more. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

New book - Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan Natasha Heller reveals "how contemporary picturebooks reframe Buddhism and offer fresh perspectives on its teachings and ideals of family for both children and adults" uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera... #histed

What a lovely way to mark the passage of time in deep winter

Now available! An innovative and sophisticated study, this book is ideal for university classroom use, and it also makes the GATELESS BARRIER accessible to other first-time readers, Buddhist practitioners, and scholars. https://buff.ly/3ZRENME

Famously a favorite food of the Buddha