1. The Study of Chinese Buddhism in the U.S. Lewis Lancaster Taiwan April, 2015

2. Sectarian/Schools Pure Land Chan

3. John McCrea Chan Oxhead School Loose fellowship Mostly known through Dunhuang manuscripts Deceased

4. Robert Sharf Pure Land is a bibliographical category rather than an institution Reinterpreting study of Chinese Buddhism University of California, Berkeley

5. Charles Orzech Cosmology and Tantra in political power. Denial of the position that Tantra is the last decaying phase of Indian Buddhism Bristol University, U.K.

6. A. Welter Chan and politics University of Arizona

7. Monasteries Vinaya

8. Gareth Fisher Anthropologist studying the new monastic construction projects in the PRC Syracuse University

9. Mazio Poceski Hongzhou School Monastic codes in Medieval China University of Florida

10. Susan Naquin Buddhist temples of Beijing during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Princeton University

11. Dynasties

12. Peter Gregory Sung was more the “Golden Age” of Buddhism than the Tang Smith College

13. Marsha Weidner Buddhist decline after the Tang is incorrect. Interdisciplinary culture based studies offer a different picture. University of Kansas

14. Chi-chiang Huang Sung dynasty Buddhist history and the relationship to the royal court Hobart-Smith Colleges

15. Morton Schlutter Platform Sutra Sung dynasty politics and Buddhism University of Iowa

16. Darui Long Northern Ming Edition of the Chinese Buddhist Canon University of the West

17. Canon/Textual Catalogues

18. Jiang Wu When did the first set of the Chinese Buddhist canon arrive in Europe? University of Arizona

19. Tanya Storch Study of catalogs and Chinese bibliographical sources How accurate are the ancient catalogs? Buddhist universities in the U.S. University of the Pacific

20. Jan Nattier Early translations of Chinese texts University of Indiana (retired)

21. Robert Buswell/ Donald Lopez Reference work Chinese Buddhist texts and apocrypha UCLA/University of Michigan

22. Contemporary PRC Taiwan

23. 20 th century Reform

24. Holmes Welch If Taixu had succeeded would Buddhism have been Buddhism? Deceased

25. Charles Jones Buddhism in Taiwan 1660-1990 Catholic University of America

26. Don Pittman Taixu’s reforms of Buddhism after the Taiping Rebellion. Phillips Theological Seminary

27. Daoism

28. Josh Capitanio Buddhist Taoist interface University of the West

29. Meditation

30. Livia Kohn Comparison of Chan and Daoist practices of meditation Boston University

31. Eric Greene Chinese meditation from 400-600 C.E. was related to the rituals of repentance. University of California, Berkeley

32. Art

33. Stan Abe Buddhism and Modern Aestheticism Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Duke University

34. T Griffith Foulk Critical of Art History that divorces art from original cultural contexts Maintains too much reliance on Sutras and on the physical appearance of images Sarah Lawrence College

35. Daniel Stevenson Meaning of an image is not fixed but open to interpretation Buddhist rituals of the Tiantai and Pure Land. University of Kansas

36. Body Cremation Immolation

37. Raoul Birnbaum Healing Buddha and art associated with him Contemporary Buddhism in PRC University of California, Santa Cruz

38. James A. Benn Study of self- immolation the role of the body in Chinese Buddhist rituals and events Mc Master University

39. Marcus Bingenheimer Formerly with CBETA Study of the life of Yinshun Relics of the “Whole Body” show that Buddhism introduced the idea of mummification to China Temple University

40. John Kieschnick Material Culture “Blood Writing” of Buddhist texts Stanford University

41. Ritual

42. Stephen Teiser Buddhism and Chinese practices regarding reincarnation, hells, Ghost Festival Princeton University

43. Buddhist Theology

44. William Chu Buddhist theology and meditation University of the West

45. Roger Jackson/John Makransky Buddhist “Theology”

46. Robert Gimello Buddhist thought in China, including Tantra Catholic theological perspectives on Buddhism Notre Dame University

47. Gender

48. Marian Levering Gender in the Chan tradition Women in Chinese Buddhism University of Tennessee