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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)
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New issue of Buddhist Studies Review, the journal of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies, is now available, the first edited by my good friends Naomi Appleton and @halleoneal.bsky.social at Edinburgh. Subscription is required to view the contents. journal.equinoxpub.com/BSR/issue/vi...
Vol. 42 No. 1 (2025) | Buddhist Studies Review
journal.equinoxpub.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
For those interested in kintsugi and Buddhist repair in art and ritual, I'm doing a few events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social

Lecture on Buddhist Repair, Spiegeltent, 17 Aug 10:30
www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
August 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Scottish RME teachers:

Buddhism Discovery Day: 12 June, 10am-2.30pm
University of Edinburgh

Includes Q&A with Thai Buddhist monk, meditation with Zen Buddhist priest, Buddhist Studies taster lectures, and Treasure Hunt for Buddhist art at National Museum of Scotland. Contact halle.oneal@ed.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I’m excited to be giving on a talk on paper, reuse, and collage in Japanese Buddhist rituals for anyone in the Cambridge, MA area. Come say hello if you’re free!
April 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan,

NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it!
github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...

The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:
November 27, 2024 at 2:11 AM
New Fully-Funded PhD Scholarship in Buddhist Studies at University of Edinburgh. Open specialism: art history, religious studies, literature, etc. Please spread the word! Applications due 20 January:

Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Scholarship:
buddhist-studies.ed.ac.uk/2025-khyents...
2025 Khyentse Foundation Buddhist Studies Doctoral Scholarship
Thanks to the generous support of the Khyentse Foundation, Edinburgh Buddhist Studies is inviting applications for a doctoral scholarship. The scholarship, which includes a fee-waiver and a stipend, w...
buddhist-studies.ed.ac.uk
November 14, 2024 at 4:44 PM