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James Robson (1965-)

Chinese name: 羅柏松 Luó Bósōng

James ROBSON 羅柏松 is the James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, the Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, and the Director of the Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) Program. In 2020, he was named a Harvard College Professor for his contributions to undergraduate teaching. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, after spending many years doing research in China, Taiwan, and Japan. He previously taught at Williams College and the University of Michigan and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He specializes in the history of Chinese Buddhism and Daoism. He is the author of the Power of Place: The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak [Nanyue 南嶽] in Medieval China (Harvard University Press, 2009), which was awarded the Stanislas Julien Prize awarded by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Toshihide Numata Prize in Buddhist Studies. He has also published widely on topics ranging from sacred geography and local religious history to the historical development of Chan/Zen Buddhism. His current research includes a long term project on the history of the confluence of Buddhist monasteries and mental hospitals in Japan. He is the editor of the Norton Anthology of World Religions: Daoism; the co-editor of Images, Relics and Legends–The Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites and Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice; and is currently completing the “Sui-Tang Buddhism” chapter for the Cambridge History of China: Volume 4, Sui and T’ang China, 618-907, Part II and a book entitled The Daodejing: A Biography for the Princeton University Press series on the "Lives of Great Religious Books." He is currently the co-editor of T’oung-Pao.

https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/zh/person/james-robson/
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Power of Place The Religious Landscape of the Southern Sacred Peak (Nanyue 南嶽) in Medieval China
by James Robson
Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2009

"Buddhism and the Chinese Marchmount System [Wuyue]: Excavating the Strata of Mt. Nanyue’s Religious History."
In John Lagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society: Volume 1 Ancient and Medieval China.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2004.

"The Polymorphous Space of the Southern Marchmount [Nanyue]: An Introduction to Nanyue's Religious History and Preliminary Notes on Buddhist and Daoist Interaction."
Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie
8 (1995): 221–64.

Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice
James A. Benn, Lori Meeks, James Robson (editors)
Routledge, 2009

"Signs of Power: Talismanic Writing in Chinese Buddhism."
History of Religions
, 48, 2 (November 2008): 130–169.

"A Tang Dynasty Chan Mummy [roushen] and a Modern Case of Furta Sacra? Investigating the Contested Bones of Shitou Xiqian."
Bernard Faure, ed. Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Formation and Fabrication in the History and Historiography of Chan Buddhism
by James Robson

Review of
Fathering Your Father: The Zen of Fabrication in Tang Buddhism
by Alan Cole.

How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China
by Morten Schlütter.

Interior Adornment: On the Hidden Contents of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Context
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLcraNPiNHA