Students in the Field of Asian Religions - Department of Asian Studies

Students in the Field of Asian Religions

East Asia

Kuly, Lisa

Rituals of childbirth in Japan, religion and the female body, pilgrimage

e-mail: lk83@cornell.edu

Matsubara, Masaki

Japanese Zen Buddhism, Hakuin studies

e-mail: mm332@cornell.edu

Yost, Tyson
textual transmission and translation in the movement of Buddhism from India to China
e-mail: tjy4@cornell.edu

South Asia

Higgins, Carter

Hindu asceticism in north Indian culture and religion; ascetic militancy; the ascetic body

e-mail: chh64@cornell.edu

Young, Jonathan

Sri Lankan religious culture and history; trans-regional Theravada Buddhism in South and South East Asia; study of religious discourses and practices relating to techniques of subject cultivation; religion and soteriological strategies

e-mail: jay27@cornell.edu

Southeast Asia

Lammerts, Dietrich Christian

Myanmar, Pali and Sanskrit language and literature; Southeastern Asian Buddhism and history.

e-mail: dcl33@cornell.edu

web page: www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dcl33

Patton, Thomas

Theravada Buddhist monasticism in Burma (Myanmar) focusing on Burmese Buddhist nuns (thilashin); Weikza, Ya-the, Gambhiya practitioners, and other non-traditional religious practices and groups in Burma; Paritta, protection practices, and so-called "tantric" elements in Theravada Buddhism.

e-mail: tnp5@cornell.edu