Online Lecture Series
The Story of Chan:
History, Literature, Teachings, and Practices
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Speaker: | Professor Mario Poceski |
Time: | 8:30-10:30 pm (HKT) | 5 May to 28 Jul 2022 |
Language: | English |
Type: | All are welcome | Free admission |
Organized by: | HKU Centre of Buddhist Studies |
Sponsored by: | GS Charity Foundation |
Enquiry: | hkucbs@hku.hk | (852) 3917 0094 |
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About the Speaker
Professor Mario Poceski
Professor, Buddhist studies and Chinese religions, University of Florida
Mario Poceski is a professor of Buddhist studies and Chinese religions at the University of Florida. He received a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures (specialization in Buddhist studies) from the University of California, Los Angeles (2000), and has spent extended periods as a visiting professor or fellow at Komazawa University (Japan), Stanford University, National University of Singapore, University of Hamburg (Germany), Fudan University (China), and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). He is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including Alexander von Humboldt and Fulbright-Hays. Prof. Poceski’s numerous publications include Communities of Memory and Interpretation: Reimagining and Reinventing the Past in East Asian Buddhism (Hamburg 2018, ed.), The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature (Oxford 2015), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (Blackwell 2014, ed.), Introducing Chinese Religions (Routledge 2009), and Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (Oxford 2007).