Dr Antonello Palumbo
LAUREA MA PHD (NAPLES)
Overview
Department of the Study of Religions
Lecturer in Chinese Religions
Centre of Buddhist Studies
Committee Member, Centre of Buddhist Studies
- Name:
- Dr Antonello Palumbo
- Email address:
- ap47@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4768
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 345
- Office Hours:
- Term 2 - Wednesdays 2-4pm
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Buddhism in Pre-Modern China
- Chinese Buddhism in the Pre-Modern Period
- Chinese Religious Texts: A Reading Seminar
- Dissertation in the Study of Religions
- Dissertation in the traditions of Yoga and Meditation
- East Asian traditions of Meditation: From Taoism to Zen
- Independent Research Project in the Study of Religions
- Oriental religions in European academia and imagination, 1815-1945
- Religions of East and Central Asia
- Taoism and Chinese Religions
- Taoism: the Great Tradition
- The Great Tradition of Taoism
- Translation of Chinese Canonical Texts
- Yoga and Meditation: Perspectives, Context and Methodologies
PhD Students supervised
- Aristotle Dy, Marginal Buddhists: Religion, Social Work, and Cultural Identity of the Chinese in the Philippines
- Janine Nicol, Daoxuan and the Shijia fangzhi: The Creation of a Buddhist Sacred Geography of China.
- Shi Longdu, Buddhism and the State in Medieval China: A Case Study of Three Persecutions of Buddhism in Chinese History, 446-845
- Sinae Kim,
Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- East Asia
Country Expertise
- China
Languages
- Italian
Publications
Book Chapters
Palumbo, Antonello (2008) 'Il rotolo manicheo di Pechino [The Beijing Manichaean Scroll].' In: Gnoli, G., (ed.), Il Manicheismo. Volume III, Il mito e la dottrina: testi manichei dell'Asia Centrale e della Cina. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla & Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, pp. 293-346.
Palumbo, Antonello (2003) 'Dharmaraksa and Kanthaka. White Horse Monasteries in Early Medieval China.' In: Verardi, G. and Vita, S., (eds.), Buddhist Asia 1: Papers from the First Conference of Buddhist Studies Held in Naples in May 2001. Kyoto: Italian School of East Asian Studies, pp. 167-216.
Palumbo, Antonello (2003) 'La conversione degli Uiguri al Manicheismo: la versione cinese. [The Conversion of the Uighurs to Manichaeism: The Chinese version].' In: Gnoli, G., (ed.), Il Manicheismo. Volume I, Mani e il Manicheismo. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla & Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, pp. 249-277.
Palumbo, Antonello (2003) 'Mani in Cina. [Mani in China].' In: Gnoli, G., (ed.), Il Manicheismo. Volume I, Mani e il Manicheismo. Fondazione Lorenzo Valla & Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, pp. 281-316.
Articles
Palumbo, Antonello (2003) 'Critical Review of: Tiziana Lippiello, Auspicious Omens and Miracles in Ancient China: Han, Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties.' Annali, 63 . pp. 268-276.
Palumbo, Antonello (1997) 'On the Author and Date of the Zhenzheng lun: An Obscure Page in the Struggle between Buddhists and Taoists in Mediaeval China.' Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale - Napoli, 57 (3-4). pp. 305-322.
Conference or Workshop Items
Palumbo, Antonello (2011) What Chinese sources really have to say about the dates of the Buddha. In: XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 22 June 2011, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Jinshan, Taiwan. (Unpublished)
Palumbo, Antonello (2010) From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang: The rhetoric of imperial conversion and the divisive emergence of religious identities in Late Antique Eurasia. In: Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond (Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar), 16 January 2010, University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College. (Unpublished)
