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Ralph H. Craig III
@rhcraig.bsky.social
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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/)
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rhcraig.bsky.social
I am looking forward to speaking at UPenn this Thursday! I hope to see 🫵🏿 there!
feelingtheory.bsky.social Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 5d
Extremely excited to have the great Ralph Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social coming to Penn to speak on Thursday!

Philly folks, come join us!
upennrels.bsky.social Penn Religious Studies @upennrels.bsky.social · 5d
Our next Religious Studies colloquium event!
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Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts
RELS Colloquium
Ralph Craig (Whitman)
Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social
Proud to launch the Digital Library of Chinese Classics! 510 texts, 20 years of research, 500 scholars, 282 vols, in one comprehensive digital collection, empowered by Brill’s renowned dictionaries. Check it out:
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October 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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judithweisenfeld.com
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.
xroadproj.bsky.social The Crossroads Project @xroadproj.bsky.social · Sep 19
New projects and a teaching resources added to the Crossroads Project's online gallery at SPIRIT HOUSE! Designed by @mpgphd.bsky.social, the site features 37 original projects exploring Black religious histories, communities and cultures. 1/2

Visit the site: www.crossroads-spirithouse.org
Black and white image of a river baptism with the words SPIRIT HOUSE: A Crossroads Project added.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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nwitkowski.bsky.social
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...
Dr. Ralph Craig III, "Preachers and Inspired Eloquence in Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras" - Learn | Explore | Connect
September 11, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm - “Inspired eloquence” the foremost skill in the Mahāyāna Buddhist preacher’s rhetorical toolkit.
buddhiststudies.utoronto.ca
August 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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sauthoff.bsky.social
Happy Birthday, big guy.
A Buddha carved into a mountainside.
May 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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elisafreschi.bsky.social
#JohnNemec presents his new book on brahmins and kings, and the role of narratives within Sanskrit philosophy:
indianphilosophyblog.org/2025/04/21/b...
Brahmins and Kings, political philosophy in the Sanskrit Narratives (a guest post by John Nemec) – The Indian Philosophy Blog
indianphilosophyblog.org
April 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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tommazanec.bsky.social
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.
Screenshot of Word document about the history of Chinese literary genre fu, with some main text and footnote text visible. In the first footnote a sentence is highlighted: "In translating the text, I have not once used AI or machine translators (I would rather resign from the profession than start doing this). "
March 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
rhcraig.bsky.social
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...
2025 - Thus Have I Heard: American Buddhism Through the Lens of Tina Turner - Barre Center for Buddhist Studies
www.buddhistinquiry.org
February 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
rhcraig.bsky.social
Tell me BBC America ain’t petty. 🤭
January 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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elisafreschi.bsky.social
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 ?
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation New Professorships in Buddhist Studies
New Professorships in Buddhist Studies supports new teaching positions.
www.acls.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:00 AM
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themodsisyphus.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...
apply — Sacred Writes
www.sacred-writes.org
December 10, 2024 at 6:36 PM
rhcraig.bsky.social
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! 🕊️🕊️🕊️
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · Dec 10
Nikki Giovanni, the poet, activist, children’s book author and professor who wrote about race, politics, gender, sex and love, died on Monday at 81. She was prolific star of the Black Arts Movement that erupted during the civil rights era. nyti.ms/3BbzyPP
December 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
rhcraig.bsky.social
I have been looking forward to reading @protass.bsky.social’s new book!
nwitkowski.bsky.social Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · Nov 27
PURCHASE NOW: Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social and Jeffrey Moser's COUNTLESS SANDS: MEDIEVAL BUDDHISTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS, with

Ryuichi Abe
Phillip E. Bloom
Megan Bryson
Maria Heim
Eric Huntington
Sonya S. Lee
D. Max Moerman
Jeffrey Moser
Reiko Ohnuma
Jason Protass
James Robson
Tamara Sears
November 28, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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raymoishe.bsky.social
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.
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 AM
rhcraig.bsky.social
Looking forward to presenting this weekend at AAR this weekend alongside some brilliant scholars, such as @nwitkowski.bsky.social, @adeanamcn.bsky.social, and others!
November 18, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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snehrdich.bsky.social
BuddhaNexus 2.0 is maturing and will be ready for release soon! This is going to be 🔥🔥🔥
November 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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nwitkowski.bsky.social
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
November 14, 2024 at 10:54 PM
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nccjapaninfo.bsky.social
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...
November 13, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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adeanamcn.bsky.social
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
2024 Annual Meetings of SBL and AAR. Save 40% on new and notable religion and biblical studies titles from OUP.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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jolyonbt.bsky.social
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...
The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions
For nearly two decades, the Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions has served as a valuable resource for students and scholars of religion in Japan. This exciting update expands the audience to include…
uhpress.hawaii.edu
November 10, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Meanwhile, the British Library exhibition has a kind of soundtrack:
idp.bl.uk/blog/contemp...
The Silk Roads in Sound (1) Introduction: Contemporary Echoes of an Ancient Legacy - International Dunhuang Programme
A mural of musicians from Cave 112 at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang. On 27 September, the long-awaited British Library exhibition ‘A Silk Road Oasis – Life in Ancient Dunhuang’ will open to the public. ...
idp.bl.uk
November 9, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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arianam.bsky.social
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
November 9, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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tommazanec.bsky.social
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.
November 8, 2024 at 1:09 AM
rhcraig.bsky.social
Finished my last day of teaching yesterday @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social. Looking forward to starting my tenure-track position at #WhitmanCollege in August!
May 30, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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neuroyogacara.bsky.social
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
May 20, 2024 at 2:50 PM