Yuxuan Tay 鄭宇軒
@yuxuantay.bsky.social
PhD student in Buddhist Studies @ UCLA | history of state-religions r/s in medieval China (c.200-1200) | “see this island, every grain of sand” 🇸🇬
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Yuxuan Tay 鄭宇軒
@yuxuantay.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Less than a week to the AAR @ San Diego! I look forward to meeting teachers, old friends, and new buddies! I will present my tiny work-in-progress research on Nov 25 Monday, from 3-4 pm, with fellow panelists Tiantian Cai, and Huajie Fan, moderated by Steph Balkwill & chaired by Hsiao-wen Cheng.
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Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
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The American Oriental Society, the oldest learned society in the nation, is changing its outdated name to the American Society for Premodern Asia. Excellent work by the renaming committee, congrats! #sinology
March 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The American Oriental Society, the oldest learned society in the nation, is changing its outdated name to the American Society for Premodern Asia. Excellent work by the renaming committee, congrats! #sinology
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BDK America's YT channel has launched! We'll b posting videos from the "Mutually Sustaining Life" & "The Buddhist Way of Life" TV series.
Plz sub, share, & like to help spread the dharma!
The videos r older so the resolution is crunchy, but the content is still great for class or self-study.
Plz sub, share, & like to help spread the dharma!
The videos r older so the resolution is crunchy, but the content is still great for class or self-study.
BDK America
Let's seek to understand Buddhism better! BDK America is the U.S. branch of the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai), an international organization founded in Japan. As a non-se...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
BDK America's YT channel has launched! We'll b posting videos from the "Mutually Sustaining Life" & "The Buddhist Way of Life" TV series.
Plz sub, share, & like to help spread the dharma!
The videos r older so the resolution is crunchy, but the content is still great for class or self-study.
Plz sub, share, & like to help spread the dharma!
The videos r older so the resolution is crunchy, but the content is still great for class or self-study.
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It's World Book Day! I wrote a book. It came out right at the start of the pandemic which wasn't great timing, but I'm still proud of it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
It's World Book Day! I wrote a book. It came out right at the start of the pandemic which wasn't great timing, but I'm still proud of it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Lol this sign
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Lol this sign
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
"Do not bring food into the library
Food residue will attract mice
Mice will acquire knowledge in the library
Get into university
Then replace you"
😂
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Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Friends, please join @adeanamcn.bsky.social and myself as we host Prof. Indrani Chatterjee (UVA) for the first lecture and discussion of our Spring 2025 #Buddhism and #Caste Initiative Lecture Series.
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
February 28, 2025
10am EST / 8:30pm IST (on zoom)
Register here: tinyurl.com/22rvht8f
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Many thanks to @devinfitz.bsky.social for guiding my medieval Japan students through some of our historical goodies at UCLA Libraries yesterday! They were blown away by getting to interact with centuries-old Japanese and Chinese texts the people they're studying interacted with or made!
February 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Many thanks to @devinfitz.bsky.social for guiding my medieval Japan students through some of our historical goodies at UCLA Libraries yesterday! They were blown away by getting to interact with centuries-old Japanese and Chinese texts the people they're studying interacted with or made!
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Japanese narrative picture scroll depicting a government official who, after wrongly being fired from his job, returns to wreak havoc on those in the capital who wronged him. #medievalsky
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
February 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Japanese narrative picture scroll depicting a government official who, after wrongly being fired from his job, returns to wreak havoc on those in the capital who wronged him. #medievalsky
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Sometimes your prayers break.
Currently looking at an Armenian prayer scroll that has been unopened for centuries - and getting ready to ID. Maybe an Ottoman or Isfahan imprint.
Currently looking at an Armenian prayer scroll that has been unopened for centuries - and getting ready to ID. Maybe an Ottoman or Isfahan imprint.
February 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Sometimes your prayers break.
Currently looking at an Armenian prayer scroll that has been unopened for centuries - and getting ready to ID. Maybe an Ottoman or Isfahan imprint.
Currently looking at an Armenian prayer scroll that has been unopened for centuries - and getting ready to ID. Maybe an Ottoman or Isfahan imprint.
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Just discovered this wonderful, relatively new resource: a glossary of Shōsōin terms with explanations and English translations of terms related to the treasures, materials, craft techniques, and more.
shosointen-glossary.narahaku.go.jp
shosointen-glossary.narahaku.go.jp
正倉院展用語解説 ｜ The Exhibition of Shōsō-in Treasures Glossary
正倉院展用語解説では正倉院宝物にもちいられた材質や技法、関連する事項などを調べることができます。
shosointen-glossary.narahaku.go.jp
January 31, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Just discovered this wonderful, relatively new resource: a glossary of Shōsōin terms with explanations and English translations of terms related to the treasures, materials, craft techniques, and more.
shosointen-glossary.narahaku.go.jp
shosointen-glossary.narahaku.go.jp
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CALL FOR PAPERS for NEW #AAR SEMINAR, "Buddhism and Caste" (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS for NEW #AAR SEMINAR, "Buddhism and Caste" (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY)
DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
DUE MARCH 3 via #AAR PAPERS system
@adeanamcn.bsky.social and I are pleased to announce the first paper call for our new 5-year seminar at the American Academy of Religion. Details here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15085
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Everyone knows Naitō Konan's 内藤湖南 (1866–1934) famous periodisation of Chinese history into ancient, medieval, and modern, but did you know that, in 1939, Sugimoto Naoji 杉本直治 already counted nearly 100 Jap. textbooks with different tripartite, quadripartite, etc. schemes?
January 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Everyone knows Naitō Konan's 内藤湖南 (1866–1934) famous periodisation of Chinese history into ancient, medieval, and modern, but did you know that, in 1939, Sugimoto Naoji 杉本直治 already counted nearly 100 Jap. textbooks with different tripartite, quadripartite, etc. schemes?
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“#Epictetus used to say, ‘you’re a tiny soul lugging around a corpse’.”
Ψυχάριον εἶ βαστάζον νεκρόν, ὡς Ἐπίκτητος ἔλεγεν.
Ψυχάριον εἶ βαστάζον νεκρόν, ὡς Ἐπίκτητος ἔλεγεν.
January 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“#Epictetus used to say, ‘you’re a tiny soul lugging around a corpse’.”
Ψυχάριον εἶ βαστάζον νεκρόν, ὡς Ἐπίκτητος ἔλεγεν.
Ψυχάριον εἶ βαστάζον νεκρόν, ὡς Ἐπίκτητος ἔλεγεν.
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Steve Bokenkamp once began a review, “This book will not stand the test of time. I refer, of course, to the binding.”
January 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Steve Bokenkamp once began a review, “This book will not stand the test of time. I refer, of course, to the binding.”
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Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
December 29, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what’s your energy going into 2025?
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2025 is on the horizone
The horizon:
The horizon:
December 28, 2024 at 7:29 PM
2025 is on the horizone
The horizon:
The horizon:
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“You’ll be visited by three spirits”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 25, 2024 at 12:28 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
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I don’t think you can get real good at sinology until you read lots of books for many years. You might have a good memory or a skill for seeing and describing things anew that sets you up for success but really you just need to read Chinese and about China all the time.
December 21, 2024 at 1:44 AM
I don’t think you can get real good at sinology until you read lots of books for many years. You might have a good memory or a skill for seeing and describing things anew that sets you up for success but really you just need to read Chinese and about China all the time.
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Medieval Buddhists of the Day, collective award: all those sixth-century stonecarvers who had no idea what a lion looks like but weren’t going to let that stop them 😁 #MBOTD 🀄️📚
(Details of bases from statues found at the 北吴庄 site near the old city of Ye 邺城 in southern Hebei)
(Details of bases from statues found at the 北吴庄 site near the old city of Ye 邺城 in southern Hebei)
December 17, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Medieval Buddhists of the Day, collective award: all those sixth-century stonecarvers who had no idea what a lion looks like but weren’t going to let that stop them 😁 #MBOTD 🀄️📚
(Details of bases from statues found at the 北吴庄 site near the old city of Ye 邺城 in southern Hebei)
(Details of bases from statues found at the 北吴庄 site near the old city of Ye 邺城 in southern Hebei)
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Chinese Woodblock Print Advent Calendar 2024 - 17 December - Broad Records from a Forest of Facts 事林廣記, 1492 - A fascinating encyclopedia of knowledge of all types, such as how to identify a fine horse 🀄📚 #AdventCalendar2024 #WoodblockAdvent @thianun.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Chinese Woodblock Print Advent Calendar 2024 - 17 December - Broad Records from a Forest of Facts 事林廣記, 1492 - A fascinating encyclopedia of knowledge of all types, such as how to identify a fine horse 🀄📚 #AdventCalendar2024 #WoodblockAdvent @thianun.bsky.social
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Awfully dusty in here all of a sudden.
(“深愛,” a little print made for me by a student who wrote a lovely note on the back and handed it to me on the way out of the final exam)
(“深愛,” a little print made for me by a student who wrote a lovely note on the back and handed it to me on the way out of the final exam)
December 17, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Awfully dusty in here all of a sudden.
(“深愛,” a little print made for me by a student who wrote a lovely note on the back and handed it to me on the way out of the final exam)
(“深愛,” a little print made for me by a student who wrote a lovely note on the back and handed it to me on the way out of the final exam)
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The sequel has arrived! More Swindles from The Late Ming by Zhang Yingyu (2024) from @columbiaup.bsky.social as supplied by Aunty Lesley's House of Festive Fun 🎄🤶 @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social where the only swindle is the tea! 🫢 #histbookchat #sinology #history #law #crime
December 12, 2024 at 10:22 AM
The sequel has arrived! More Swindles from The Late Ming by Zhang Yingyu (2024) from @columbiaup.bsky.social as supplied by Aunty Lesley's House of Festive Fun 🎄🤶 @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social where the only swindle is the tea! 🫢 #histbookchat #sinology #history #law #crime
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Staff appreciation at the dept holiday party means a new Hokkaido gin I’ve never tried! 😍
December 5, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Staff appreciation at the dept holiday party means a new Hokkaido gin I’ve never tried! 😍
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I know it's hard for Western countries to look to the rest of the world as role models for anything, but damn, Western politicians could really learn a thing or two from South Koreans about going all in to defend democracy
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
Democratic Party aides are shown spraying fire extinguishers at the infiltrating army to keep them back.
I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct
I just want to add that I am a South Korean citizen and Seoul resident and I am *extremely* proud of South Korean democracy and this president has violated something I hold sacrosanct
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I know it's hard for Western countries to look to the rest of the world as role models for anything, but damn, Western politicians could really learn a thing or two from South Koreans about going all in to defend democracy
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
(specifically thinking of Germany & the US rn, but I'm sure there's more)
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Journal of Chinese Religions 52.2 (December 2024) just dropped muse.jhu.edu/issue/53935
December 4, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Journal of Chinese Religions 52.2 (December 2024) just dropped muse.jhu.edu/issue/53935