South and Southeast Asian Studies C220: Seminar in Buddhism and Buddhist Texts
Content varies with student interests. The course will normally focus on classical Buddhist texts that exist in multiple recensions and languages, including Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan. Read More
South Asian C224: Readings in Tibetan Buddhist Texts
This seminar provides an introduction to a broad range of Tibetan Buddhist texts, including chronicles and histories, biographical literature, doctrinal treatises, canonical texts, ritual manuals, pilgrimage guides, and liturgical texts. It is intended for graduate students interested in premodern Tibet from any perspective. Students are... Read More
Indonesian 210B: Seminar in Malay Letters and Oral Traditions
Various aspects of Malay language and literature, history and development of the language, classical literature, drama, oral literature, modern literature of Indonesia and Malaysia, and dialect studies. Applies various theoretical approaches to the study of the language and literature. Read More
South and Southeast Asian Studies C275: Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha: History and Modernity in Theravada Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
This graduate seminar introduces students to the study of Buddhism in Theravada Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka through a critical survey of recent scholarship in such fields as religious history, cultural history and literary history, focusing on the modern era. Once dismissed as Buddhism of... Read More
South Asian 240: The Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia
This course examines the histories and the contexts of the realist novel through a comparative literary focus on South and South East Asia. Through novels published in South and South East Asia from the 1900’s to the present, this course will look at how the... Read More