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Natasha Heller

@nlheller.bsky.social
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Scholar of Chinese religion (mainly Buddhism) and within that scope especially interested in literature and trees at present

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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The Kuroda Institute is pleased to announce a symposium on Nov 21 to honor Peter Gregory—use the QR to access the full program
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Frederick Ranallo-Higgins @fmr-h.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Franz Metcalf @franzmetcalf.bsky.social reviews Natasha Heller's @nlheller.bsky.social new book on Buddhist picture books for children. "These books become the material form of modern family Buddhism, giving rise to new practices rooted not in the temple but in the home." Accessible Link
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How to Raise a Little Bodhisattva
In Taiwan, a new generation of children’s books quietly transforms Buddhist family life.
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
My review of Don Lopez’s amazing new history of Buddhism
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
State Sen. Creigh Deeds asks the BOV: “What is your understanding of the importance of shared governance in a university? What is your understanding of the significance of having lost the confidence of the people who educate students in that university?” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Virginia General Assembly demands answers about Ryan's resignation in Aug. 1 letter
In a 10-page letter obtained by The Cavalier Daily, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, demanded written responses and documentation from University Rector Rachel Sheridan and University Vice ...
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A simple idea: faculty should be represented in the search for UVa’s next president: www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
To be clear, the Olympic swimmer is not the problem. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
cavalierdaily.com
4 RELIGIOUS STUDIES FACULTY: Where are the humanities professors?
Lawyers, financiers, teachers, students and, yes, Olympic swimmers belong on the search committee. But, surely, faculty members who carry out a core mission of the University belong there, too.
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I am annoyed by people who write in library books but especially astounded by this—at least it is not in pen!
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We're pairing up contingent historians with contingent scholars in other fields for a face off! Click through to learn more and let us know if you want to participate.
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Face/Off
Lots of scholars from different disciplines study and write about things that happened in the past. So what, if anything, makes history a separate and coherent discipline? While Contingent is a histor...
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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The title is a little misleading, but this is a clear explanation of what’s happened at UVa. TLDR: the people appointed or elected to represent the University are in fact its opponents. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/o...
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Opinion | What the University of Virginia Should Have Done
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Polo Buddies and Rental Cabs: The Donkeys of Tang China and Their Poetic Destinies www.medievalists.net/2022/06/donk... #MedievalChina
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Polo Buddies and Rental Cabs: The Donkeys of Tang China and Their Poetic Destinies - Medievalists.net
The humble donkey was a constant presence across Tang China and a regular feature in the day-to-day business of people from all walks of life. How were these animals remembered by writers of the time?
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
More polling just dropped -- by a pretty huge margin Americans think that having international students at US universities is good for the country, not bad -- 56% to 14% (+42) and for 18-29 YOs, nearly 1/2 say international students are "very good"
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This policy, which is so real it was published on the State Department's actual website and not its Substack, is about as bad a policy as one could imagine for American national security and prosperity. The Rubio of 4 months ago would call it insane. Which it is. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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New Visa Policies Put America First, Not China - United States Department of State
Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to ...
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Academic friends, how do you think about summer writing? What strategies or resources have been useful for you? What are the biggest challenges?
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Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In 1871, Harper’s Weekly published a wood engraving depicting the interior of a San Francisco Chinese temple, a rare print subject before the 1906 earthquake. Clues suggest it shows the main hall of Eastern Glory Temple located off Jackson St. on St. Louis Alley. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Chinatown
The image is a black and white illustration depicting the interior of a Chinese "joss house" in San Francisco. The scene features an ornate altar with intricate carvings and five icons. Two large hanging lanterns flank the altar and a board inscribed with Chinese characters hangs above. Several figures are present: a man and woman in Western attire accompanied by a child who are observing the scene; a person bowing in front of the altar holding incense; and other individuals standing or walking, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing.
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RNS @rns.org · 26/04/2025
On this farm and creamery run by Hindu devotees and modeled after a traditional Indian gaushala, both soil and soul are cultivated with God in mind. religionnews.com/2025/04/25/o...
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On a dairy farm run on Hindu principles, cow 'friends' yield milk and higher consciousness
PORT ROYAL, Pennsylvania (RNS) — Hare Krishna farmers produce 'non-violent,' or ahimsa, dairy from cows that are loved and cared for.
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Pitches for this are due Sunday. If you know someone who might want to contribute, please share this with them!
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Call For Pitches: The Losses
“But you could go work for the government! Or museums—maybe a non-profit?” Grad students and adjuncts leaving academic history in the United States have often gotten the above advice from well-meaning...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/04/2025
Want to brush up on your skills about fighting back against repression and political interference in #highered? Join an online session for the April 17 #DayofActionforHigherEd. Register: www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events
Registration information for the fighting attacks on higher ed in red states workshop.Registration information for the immigrants rights defense workshop.Registration information for the Who Rules the Academy (and how to Fight Back) workshop.Registration for the universities as political battlegrounds workshop.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits." what! www.popsci.com/environment/...
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A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia
Move over, Liberty Bell.
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“The fires gutted the 1,300-year-old Gounsa temple in Uiseong city”
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Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"For Western scholars of China, the era before the pandemic now feels like a distant golden age." Yanzhong Huang on the withering of academic engagement with China thanks to domestic factors in both countries, as well as heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington.
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Opinion | Restoring Academic Ties With China Is a Matter of U.S. National Security
Decisions on U.S. policy toward China are being made based on diminishing insight into the country’s internal dynamics.
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Rob Glover @robglover.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The Fulbright Foreign Student Program invites graduate students from abroad to come study in the US and guarantees funding for them to do so paid in a monthly stipend. Yesterday, some FFSP scholars received notification that they're only getting a week of their stipend.
Email sent to FFSP.
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I love our library
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Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞骼💀 @sudasana.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Recently published by Natasha Heller: Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera...
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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an eme…
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Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD @peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello design notebook from 1771 contains a description for a "Chinese temple" - it was never built. Loosely based on Chinese Buddhist pagodas, this would have been an open air gazebo (sometimes also called a pagoda). #ManuscriptMondays 🗃️
Manuscript page from the Massachusetts Historical
Society with "Chinese temple" written on top. [https://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/doc?id=arch_N119&archive=arch&query=chinese&tag=text&num=10&rec=5&numRecs=5#firstmatch]
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
@arianam.bsky.social could you add me to the Buddhism starter pack?
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Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Writing a book on East Asian Buddhism and need support to finish it? Apply for the Kuroda Institute Manuscript Completion Grant, which provides funds for developmental editing, line editing for non-native speakers, manuscript workshops, child/eldercare, and more. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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GRANTS> Announcing Kuroda Institute Manuscript Completion Grant | H-Net
Kuroda Institute Manuscript Completion Grant
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Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
New book - Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan Natasha Heller reveals "how contemporary picturebooks reframe Buddhism and offer fresh perspectives on its teachings and ideals of family for both children and adults" uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera... #histed
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Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an eme…
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What a lovely way to mark the passage of time in deep winter
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Now available! An innovative and sophisticated study, this book is ideal for university classroom use, and it also makes the GATELESS BARRIER accessible to other first-time readers, Buddhist practitioners, and scholars. buff.ly/3ZRENME
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Natasha Heller @nlheller.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Famously a favorite food of the Buddha
Wooden Buddha statue next to a sign reading “pork dumplings”
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