Michael Radich: Numata Visiting Professor for the Winter Semester 2013/14
10 September 2013
Photo: M. Radich
The Numata Visiting Professor for the Winter Semester 2013/14 will be Dr. Michael Radich, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A New Zealander by birth, he was educated at Auckland University in composition, music analysis and Asian Studies, and then at Harvard in East Asian Studies. He received his PhD from Harvard in 2007 for a dissertation entitled "The Somatics of Liberation: Ideas about Embodiment in Buddhism from Its Origins to the Fifth Century C.E." He has taught at Victoria University of Wellington since 2005.
Aside from his translation of Kazushige Shingu, “Being Irrational: Lacan, the Objet a, and the Golden Mean”, Dr. Radich is also the author of How Ajatasatru Was Reformed: The Domestication of "Ajase", Stories in Buddhist History, and The Mahaparinirvana-mahasutra and the Emergence of Tathagatagarbha/Buddha Nature Doctrine (Forthcoming). Dr. Radich will be teaching two courses during the Winter Semester. One course will be an introduction to Chinese Buddhism from 383–581 AD. The other will deal with the Mahaparinirvana-mahasutra, while also examining a range of recurring themes in the study of Buddhist ideas and texts, including questions of doctrine, textual history, social history, translation and reception.