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Prof. Dr. Mario Poceski

Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen

• E-Mail: mpoceski@ufl.edu

Home Institution: Department of Religion, University of Florida

IKGF Visiting Fellow January 2019 – December 2019

IKGF Research Project:

Premonitions and Predictions of Future Events in the Chan Tradition of Chinese Buddhism

Curriculum Vitae

Mario Poceski is a professor of Buddhist studies and Chinese religions at the University of Florida. He received a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures, with specialization in Buddhist studies, from the University of California, Los Angeles (2000). A specialist in Chan (Zen) and the history of Buddhism in China, his publications also cover many other topics. He has spent extended periods as a visiting professor/scholar at Komazawa University (Japan), Stanford University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Hamburg (Germany), and Fudan University (China), and has received several prestigious fellowships, including Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. Poceski's numerous publications include Communities of Memory and Interpretation: Reimagining and Reinventing the Past in East Asian Buddhism (Hamburg 2018, ed.), The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature (Oxford 2015), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (Blackwell 2014, ed.), Introducing Chinese Religions (Routledge 2009), and Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (Oxford 2007).

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