The second speaker sponsored by the Buddhist Studies Initiative will give a talk next week: Barbara R. Ambros (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will speak on "Animals Absorb the Teachings through Their Pores: Life Releases and Liturgical Infusion in Early Modern Japan."  

The talk will be held on Thursday (4/17)  from 12:30 to 2 pm, in Gibson 341. Lunch will be served.

Barbara R. Ambros is a professor in East Asian Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research on Japanese Religions has focused on gender studies, human-animal relationships, and place and space. Most recently she is the co-editor of Animals and Religion.(Routledge) and the translator of Vincent Goossaert, The Beef Taboo in China: Agriculture, Ethics, and Sacrifice (University of Hawai'i Press). She is also the author of Women in Japanese Religions (New York University Press, 2015), Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012), and Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Early Modern Ōyama Cult and Regional Religion (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008).