Stuart Young

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Princeton University

Research Interests

• Intersections between Buddhism and indigenous traditions
• Religious biography
• Buddhist material culture

Teaching Interests

• Chinese and Japanese religions
• Buddhism
• Daoism
• Theories of religion

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 24. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2015.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

"Squealing Silkworms, Bug Clothes, and Maidens Who Spit Silk: Indian Silk and Sericulture in Medieval Chinese Buddhism." Under review.

"‘Bald-headed Destroyers of Living Things': Shaping Buddhist Identity in the Silk Cultures of Medieval China." Asia Major,Forthcoming.

"For a Compassionate Killing: Chinese Buddhism, Sericulture, and the Silkworm God Aśvaghoṣa." Journal of Chinese Religions 41.1 (2013): 25-58.