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Thomas Patton is a Ph.D. candidate of Buddhist Studies in the Asian Religions Program at Cornell University. His research interests concern lived religion in Myanmar, specifically local cults of sorcerer saints (weizzā), shrines, miracles, and other manifestations of religious devotion. Tom is currently writing a dissertation on weizzā saints and their devotees based on years of ethnographic and textual research in Myanmar. Read More »
My project examines the emerging popularity and phenomenon of international meditation centers in Thailand, focusing on encounters between international meditation center teachers and their international students. Through participant observation and in-depth interviews at these sites throughout Thailand, my project explores the social processes of religious change and adaptation, and the construction of religious meaning. Read More »
David Geary is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Oxford on a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. At the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology his research focuses on religion, diaspora and transnationalism, international development, and the politics of World Heritage in South Asia. Read More »
Betty Nguyen’s dissertation, “Buddhist Calamity Cosmologies: Being Virtuous in an Immoral World,” focuses on late 19th to early 20th century cosmological sermons on morality from northern Thailand. The writings envision Buddhists as living in a cosmic historical era marked by wars, famine, pestilence, and oppressive rule. Read More »
Sujatha Arundathi Meegama completed her dissertation at the University of California Berkeley in May 2011. Her current book project, tentatively titled as Constructing the Canon: Patrons and Artisans of Buddhist and Hindu Temples in Sri Lanka, questions the ethno-religious construction of the Sri Lankan art historical canon and argues for an alternative narrative, one in which religious, cultural, and visual boundaries are negotiated by diverse patrons and artisan workshops. Read More »
Stanford University Postdoctoral Scholar Department of Anthropology
Current projects: I’m right now involved in a few different projects that center on the ways that everyday psychological functioning is influenced by and made up through Buddhist thought in a small community in Northern Thailand. Read More »
Scans from Enlightened Ways. Additional Scans can be found on Buddhist Art News.
The library, opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in July 2011, is open to the general public. The collection - some 45,000 monographs and 40,000 issues of periodicals in Thai as well as western languages - constitutes a major resource for research in Buddhism and the history, anthropology, and art of Southeast Asia. Read More »
