[Blog] A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images regarding Buddhist Saints, Sages, Translators, and Encyclopedists: Conference Report

By Nate Lovdahl, Yale University If Buddhist Studies is itself a forest of knowledge, Koichi Shinohara has proved himself one of its most adept guides. Over his fifty-plus year career, Shinohara’s research has aided scholars across Buddhist Studies (to say nothing of those other forests—Asian Studies or Religious Studies, for example—into which his work has …

[Blog] A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images, a conference in celebration of Prof. Koichi Shinohara’s 80th birthday co-hosted by Yale University, the University of Zhejiang, and University of British Columbia, October 14-16, 2021

By Nelson Landry, University of Oxford The “Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images” conference took place on October 14-16, 2021, under the auspices of the Glorisun Charitable Foundation in collaboration with the FROGBEAR project at the University of British Columbia. The event was co-hosted by Yale University and the University of Zhejiang. It …