講者：Jessica Starling 潔西卡·斯坦林（路易斯克拉克學院）
日期：2020年2月6日， 4:30pm – 6:00pm
地點：耶魯大學 451 College Street, Room B04
講座簡介：
在為確診麻風病（漢森病）服務的麻風病中心，淨土宗僧人開展了一項志願服務，此次演講通過研究此案例，探究當代佛教痛苦的形態。在日本有三種不同麻風病，通過的特定的觀察以及對佛教志願者有關的採訪，斯塔林教授展現了她的採訪者理解一些痛苦的方式——一種無形的、廣闊的概念,涵蓋了從生理、社會和情感,存在主義的各種維度的經驗。
關於演講者：
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.
贊助機構：Yale Department of Religious Studies, Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies and the Council on East Asian Studies.
