The European Association for Chinese Studies is holding an Autumn School titled "字 and the Search for Universalism", for students and junior scholars working on the history of the Chinese script and the “sinographic sphere”.

Dates: 14–16 November
Location: Nürnberg

sites.google.com/view/eacsaut...

Do you also highlight a lot when you are reading? Here is highlighting in a book, medieval manuscript-style.

Paris. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Ms-492, Gregory the Great's Dialogues, 11th century

First copies just arrived:

COUNTLESS SANDS: MEDIEVAL BUDDHISTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS (2025)

The publisher’s website is shipping now
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When the the text writes itself.....

Bodleian Library MS. Douce 6; Psalter; c.1320 CE-1330 CE; Flanders (Ghent) f.61r @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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Morbid frontispiece to “Skeletons” a la Zen master Ikkyū 一休 (1394-1481). A meditation on impermanence. 1847 manuscript edn. of 一休骸骨 held by Ryukoku University Library, Kyoto.

A Buddhist Studies Starter Pack is up and running! Envisioned as primarily academic, it’s also a place for librarians, publishers, and professional societies that work with Buddhist Studies to connect.

It’s a work in progress—add and share widely.

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The Cluster of Excellence "EurAsian Transformations" at the University of Vienna has advertised two postdoctoral positions in imperial Eurasian and Chinese history:
eurasiantransformations.univie.ac.at/news/details...

I organized a workshop on "New Approaches to Traditional Chinese Food Culture" with one of our grad students, Wandi Wang, for next weekend, March 9-10, at UC Santa Barbara. If you are in the southern / central California area, please join us!

The deadline for our East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop is just over a week away! 🚨Apply by 3/8 for this intro to DH through EAS! Apps from grad students & contingent faculty are prioritized. 🥳 Taken our DL before? Recommend us! 😀⬇️ @vierth.bsky.social web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

To those dealing with ancient (Chinese) manuscripts, what type of loupes/magnifiers would you recommend using? Do you have any suggestions in particular? 🧐 And same question for micrometers.

My book, Poet-Monks, is now out from Cornell University Press.

For a free, open-access PDF, simply change "format" to "ebook" and download away.

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