Buddhas in the West Material Archive
Buddhist material culture in media for Western audiences, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD (@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social)
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@karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social
# Wanders through history of science, knowledge, and archives. # Leaping between early modern and Victorian worlds. # Marginalia, haunted papers, and scholarly personae. # Secretly tracing a wild Warburgian current—don’t tell the cataloguers. 🤫 @SOAS
@morientalist.bsky.social
Interest: historical IR, religion, ontosec & memory in Asia Read: Mongolian, russian, Turkish & farsi
@daophos.bsky.social
Rogue linguist. Interested in Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese philosophy. Loves sci-fi, but not a lot of sci-fi. Professional 润学家 lost in far-flungery… ལུང་པ་རེ་རེ་ལ་སྐད་ལུགས་རེ༏་བླ་མ་རེ་རེ་ལ་ཆོས་ལུགས་རེ་རེ༏
@fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social
Historian of arts & collections in planetary, ecocritical, and transcultural perspectives. 4A_Lab Postdoctoral Fellow @khiflorenz.bsky.social, Albert-Ottenbacher-Fellow for Provenance Research @zikg.eu, PhD @Uni-Heidelberg
@americanstudier.bsky.social
Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://linktr.ee/americanstudier he/him
@us.theconversation.com
A nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of experts with the public, in accessible, trustworthy articles drawing on their research. Free to read, without paywalls or ads.
@amcreamer.bsky.social
#artist SoaneMuseum KofflerCentre🇨🇦 ‘25 Routledge> Home Place & Belonging Through Arts Based Research R&D>Ghostbodies 🩻🗣️ Snr Lecturer Art CSM #UAL Lived experience, narrative🪢place #socialprescribing #GCT B #spinaloncology 🎥✍️🌀🇮🇪🇪🇺 https://bio.site/amcreamer
@christinajriggs.bsky.social
Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
@patheos.com
Patheos is the website of choice for millions of people looking for credible and balanced information about religion. Patheos brings together faith communities, academics, authors, and the broader public into a single environment. http://www.patheos.com
@tomtweed.bsky.social
Historian of religion. Author of Crossing and Dwelling (Harvard); Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford); and Religion in the Lands That Became America (Yale). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300221480/religion-in-the-lands-that-became-ame
@sprothero.bsky.social
Part-time agnostic. Writer on politics&religion. BU Emeritus Prof of US Religions. Cape Codder. Hispanophile. Author of books w/ "religion," "God," and other make-believes in the titles. Next up: BETRAYAL: HOW THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS SOLD OUT THEIR FOUNDERS.
@funkyhistory.bsky.social
I post about history, anthropology, archeology and other science related stuff 🇩🇰🌻 Follow for daily historical photo (when i dont forget)
@vanessarsasson.bsky.social
Professor of Buddhist Studies. Author of Yasodhara and the Buddha (2021) and The Gathering (2023). Karate enthusiast. Goofy and serious and a Gemini.
@carolinalami.bsky.social
Translator, editorial director of Nalanda Edizioni, publishing house of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition.
@mutantfrog.bsky.social
Owner of dormant blog Mutantfrog.com. Researched Japan colonial history at Kyoto U. Formerly lived in New Jersey, Kyoto, Taipei, Brooklyn. Love games. Now resident in Tokyo, working in a job unrelated to any of the above things I prefer to talk about.
@mitzik-i.bsky.social
Early Modern/late Medieval art historian, progressive, citizen of the world, trying to find balance in our emerging late Capitalist dystopia.
@annejonas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
@johnmiedema.bsky.social
Essays on mindfulness meditation, cognitive technology, and climate politics 🐌 🌐 https://johnmiedema.art/ 📥 https://johnmiedema.substack.com/ #meditation #neurofeedback #cdnpoli #climate #parkinsons #wakefieldqc
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴 Editing Social Science History & Asia-Pacific Econ History
@septology.bsky.social
American Studies MSt student (Oxford), writing about the city in the postwar American Novel (Vidal, Ellison, Malamud) they/them
@davenewhouse.bsky.social
Musician, Painter, Buddhist, Vegan, founder of the alt-jazz / AmeriCanterbury band The Muffins, My music can be found at dave.newhouse.bandcamp.com
@randlesc.bsky.social
Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works about China and Korea.
@vischina.bsky.social
Updates on Historical Photographs of China: explore 25,000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 & 1950. A University of Bristol project https://hpcbristol.net We blog at https://visualisingchina.net/blog/
@tnamgyal.bsky.social
Ph.D. candidate in East Asian History at Penn State University. Interested in Tibet-Qing & Republican China relations; cultural encounters, Buddhist networks and literary traditions in East & Inner Asia. https://history.la.psu.edu/directory/tashi-namgyal/
@paldengyal.bsky.social
དཔལ་ལྡན་རྒྱལ། 华丹嘉 | PhD candidate (ABD, Columbia) interested in borderlands, statecraft, empire & colonialism, climate & environmental history https://pal-den-gyal.com
@helenwanglondon.bsky.social
@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social
Postdoc Fellow @ Center for Mind and Culture | scholar of late antique Mediterranean religion | YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast | Visiting Scholar @ GWU
@sharpnews.bsky.social
An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org). Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
@apceveryday.bsky.social
Sending a postcard(s) from the golden age of Postcards 1898-1918 or other old printed material. My interests include old paper things & saying stupid stuff
@montydaviskc.bsky.social
Multimedia KC Star | iPhone 🟰 Swiss Army Knife | Deltiologist | Antique Dealer | Mean People Suck | Mindfullness | History Buff | 3 Pugs 🐾 | 20K+ Postcards For Sale eBay Store: https://www.ebay.com/str/suburbangranolageneralstore
@buddhadharma.bsky.social
Whether you’ve been practicing for two years or twenty, Buddhadharma is your ideal source for deepening your understanding of and connection to Buddhism. Buddhadharma is a project of Lion's Roar, found at https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhadharma/
@openbuddhism.org
The investigative platform Open Buddhism aims to contribute to open-minded, public debates across the Buddhist world. To this end, Open Buddhism invites contributions by freethinkers who develop tough, probing questions and dare speak truth to power.
@savetibet.bsky.social
Promoting human rights and democratic freedoms for the Tibetan people. Learn more and join our movement: www.savetibet.org linktr.ee/SaveTibetOrg
@upaya.bsky.social
Zen Buddhist community focused on the integration of practice & social action, bringing together wisdom & compassion. Founded by Roshi Joan Halifax ⬇️ @joanhalifax.bsky.social
@ioantrifu.bsky.social
Political scientist & historian, specialised on Japan. Researching the transformation of the nation-state in Japan: local government, heritage politics, disaster and climate change, animals in politics... フランス人の政治学者。専門は日本政治史、比較政治など。
@buddhistarchive.bsky.social
The Buddhist Digital Resource Center preserves Buddhist literature for the world. Using state-of-the art technology, BDRC is the leading digital archive of Buddhist texts, working with local partners to provide free access for the global community. bdrc.io
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Blog: http://mimicofmodes.com Author newsletter: http://buttondown.com/cassidypercoco
@minna108.bsky.social
Kissan kaveri, aikuisen äiti ja snadisti/tuhdisti buddhisti. The Ringu Tulku Archive. The Bodhicharya group in Finland. 😍🙏🏼🪷✨
@zooniverse.bsky.social
The world's largest and most popular platform for people-powered research. A collaboration between the Adler Planetarium, University of Oxford, University of Minnesota, and friends. Learn more and join: https://linktr.ee/the.zooniverse
@footnotesinhistory.bsky.social
Historian of Japanese American Life from 1941-1945 🇺🇲 | PNW Native 🌲 | Documentary Maker 📽️ | Perpetually Working on My Book 🗃 | Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Subscribe to my YouTube Channel! youtube.com/@FootnotesInHistory
@caraacenter.bsky.social
🔬 Centre d'Analyses et de Recherche en Art et Archéologie La science au service de l’Art 📍 at Paris & Le Mans
@mythcrafts.bsky.social
We are Mythologists who also love folklore, history, pop culture and anything weird and unusual. Mythcrafts.com
@stuartackland.bsky.social
From crazy cartouches, wonderful beasts or general carto-frippery, a site that highlights the non-map part of maps! From the Map team at the Bodleian Library
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk