William McGrath
Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at New York University | Tibet and China | Religion and Medicine
@natashalotus.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Religious studies at Texas State University. Researcher on Tibet, China, hell, and Gesar. Author of Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America. www.hellscholar.com
@bryandaniellowe.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religion @Princeton. Historian of Japanese religions (esp. 7th-9th c.) & Buddhism. Author of Ritualized Writing (UH Press, 2017). Unapologetic Boston sports fan.
@klingley.bsky.social
Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
@nwitkowski.bsky.social
Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof. University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
@bokane.org
Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming and Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian. Shitposty sinology. Signal: @bokane.1644. http://www.burninghou.se
@jamesabenn.bsky.social
Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
@adeanamcn.bsky.social
She/her. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Historian of Buddhism in South Asia and the United States Author, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
@joelbordeaux.bsky.social
Lecturer @UniUtrecht + Researcher @UniLeiden: Sanskrit + Bengali literature, Hinduism + court culture, tantra + yoga. Views = eel wriggling. He/him/hisn.
@paularcurtis.bsky.social
Medievalist. Historian. Japan. Project Juggler. DH. Extremely Tired. Good & Bad cats. 🐾 Rock art. 🎨 Operations Leader @jppinfo.bsky.social, UCLA http://prcurtis.com/ Support open-access projects: http://patreon.com/prcurtis, http://ko-fi.com/prcurtis
@hlangberg.bsky.social
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholar. Lover of Paul, Grey Sculptures from India, Rooms a Thousand Years Wide. Religions of South Asia, Goddess Traditions. Writer, Singer, Postdoc (she/her)
@frederikschroeer.bsky.social
Historian of Emotions in Buddhism, India, Tibet; Environmental History; History of Concepts. 🏳️🌈
@susandine.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ Vanderbilt University. Art historian studying arts of Japan (medieval Buddhist works and 18th-19th century Ainu works). Museum Studies scholar.
@alicecasalini.bsky.social
Art Historian at UChicago | Buddhist Art of Gandhāra, Northern India, and Western China | Visual Artist | Cat Connoisseur
@jennortegren.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Religion at Middlebury College; Hinduism, Islam in India, ethnography, gender, and class. Author of *Middle-Class Dharma: Women, Aspiration, and the Making of Contemporary Hinduism.* Most skeets sarcastic.
@elisafreschi.bsky.social
Sanskrit (and) philosophy. Permanently in beta phase. Blogging at http://elisafreschi.com and http://indianphilosophyblog.org. Articles at http://academia.edu Here to learn & share
@yaelrice.bsky.social
Associate professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization & chair of Architectural Studies at Amherst College.
@matthew-hayes.bsky.social
Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies. he/him
@justinwhitaker.bsky.social
Senior Correspondent at Buddhistdoor Global (BDG); PhD in Buddhist ethics from U London, writer on Pali Buddhism and interfaith dialogue
@protass.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Religious Studies at Brown Univeristy; Chinese Buddhist stuff
@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social
That chick obsessed with Shinto and #torii gates. ⛩️🔍🗺️ Anthropologist of (Japanese) religion, digital tech, media & pop culture | Lecturer & Assoc. Editor @ Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture | YouTuber @ Eat Pray Anime | Cultural consultant
@joybrennan.bsky.social
Buddhist philosophy, early Yogacara in India and China. Teaching religion and philosophy at Kenyon College, leading Kokosing Zen Center, raising my daughter, learning the native plants of central Ohio.
@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social
Medieval Chinese Buddhology. Textiness of texts: scriptures, canons, citations, anthologies. He/him/his.
@sudasana.bsky.social
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; 🇨🇦🏴; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
@paulcopp.bsky.social
Humanities & Sinology & Buddhist Studies at UChicago (but really mainly Zen & eco-humanities these days) (and mandolin)
@raymoishe.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at Northwestern University. Queer and Trans Studies of Contemporary Buddhism. Dissertation: “Sensual Materialities: Buddhist Art and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok”
@moroshigeki.bsky.social
Prof. at Hanazono University, Kyoto. Japanese & East Asian Buddhist studies, digital humanities, Shorinji kempo, Kamishichiken-bunko.
@djbuddha.bsky.social
teller of dad jokes, keeper of cats, president of America’s oldest Buddhist seminary, wrote the book on American Buddhism (literally) http://djbuddha.org
@levimclaughlin.bsky.social
Professor, Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University
@jolyonbt.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of Religious Studies. Author, Faking Liberties (2019), Drawing on Tradition (2012); co-editor, New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions (2025). Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.17249. Web: jolyon.thomasresearch.org
@mcmullen.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture and editor of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. Follow @jjrs-nirc.bsky.social for journal and institute updates.
@martasanvido.bsky.social
Japanese Buddhism| Secrecy| Local Communities| Marginalized Bodies| Postdoc Uni Hamburg| Former Shinjo Ito Postdoc @UCBerkeley| PhD @CaFoscari 🇮🇹| #FirstGen https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/MartaSanvido
@tobenedict.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Sociology@KwanseiGakuin, working on Religions in Japan, Death/Dying, Medical Anthro, 🇯🇵育ち🇺🇸人, author=https://www.ucpress.edu/books/spiritual-ends/paper, views=own
@wooldridge.bsky.social
Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
@elsacuille.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Strasbourg. Medieval China. 太平廣記. Religious Specialists in Anomaly Accounts. ITI Hisaar. UMR Archimède.
@paulakolata.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Research on religion in Japan, Buddhism, rurality, depopulation, religious economies, heritage and materiality, food. Current project: REFUSE on Buddhist excess and discard.
@simonalazzerini.bsky.social
Shinjo Ito Postdoc, UC Berkeley | PhD Religious Studies, Stanford University |Chinese and Japanese Buddhism | Hārītī 鬼子母神 | Demonology and creepy stuff 👹 | Italiana 🇮🇹 She/her
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies. PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network. uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
@buddhistdoor.bsky.social
Posts from the international Buddhist journal Buddhistdoor Global (BDG) buddhistdoor.net : offerings of news, insights, and commentary on Buddhist practice, thought, history, and culture. Welcome!
@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
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) 🗺 buddhasinthewest.com 🌟 New Posts: Mon, Wed, & Fri
@snehrdich.bsky.social
CTO of the MITRA project @BAIR, UC Berkeley. Research in ancient Asian low resource languages, especially text reuse, machine translation, semantic similarity search. Buddhist studies MA, now PhD in computational linguistics @Duesseldorf university.
@covrig.bsky.social
Historian of Chinese religions Religion, philosophy, West Europe, East Asia and everything in between. Mostly dad jokes, bad humor and memes - mostly memes. Curious, asking questions and using this platform to know more people.
@asianstudies.org
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
@calebscarter.bsky.social
Teaching Japanese religions at Kyushu Uni, current Harvard-Yenching visiting scholar, thinking about religiosity and mountains, modernity, sacred graffiti. Casual climber and banjo noodler.
@sauthoff.bsky.social
Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology. Assistant Professor at HKBU. News junkie with a journalism past. https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
@orionklautau.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Japan). Buddhism & Historiography, Shotoku Taishi & Kamakura New Buddhism, the Occult & Japan.
@brianruppert.bsky.social
Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).