讲者：Jessica Starling 洁西卡·斯坦林（路易斯克拉克学院）
日期：2020年2月6日， 4:30pm – 6:00pm
地点：耶鲁大学 451 College Street, Room B04
讲座简介：
在为确诊麻风病（汉森病）服务的麻风病中心，净土宗僧人开展了一项志愿服务，此次演讲通过研究此案例，探究当代佛教痛苦的形态。在日本有三种不同麻风病，通过的特定的观察以及对佛教志愿者有关的采访，斯塔林教授展现了她的采访者理解一些痛苦的方式——一种无形的、广阔的概念,涵盖了从生理、社会和情感,存在主义的各种维度的经验。
关于演讲者：
Professor Starling received her Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of Virginia, and is currently Associate Professor at Lewis and Clark College. Starling’s scholarly articles have appeared in the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Eastern Buddhist, Religion Compass, and the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her first monograph, Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in the Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū (University of Hawai’i Press, 2019), is an ethnography of temple wives in the True Pure Land Buddhist School (Jōdo Shinshū). She has received numerous fellowships in support of her research, including grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Japan Foundation, and the American Association of University Women.
赞助机构：Yale Department of Religious Studies, Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies and the Council on East Asian Studies.
