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Mario Poceski

Mario Poceski

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Email: mpoceski
Office: 132 Anderson Hall

Professor

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 (specialization in Buddhist studies) from the University of California, Los Angeles (2000), and has spent extended periods as a visiting professor or fellow at Komazawa University (Japan), Stanford University, National University of Singapore, University of Hamburg (Germany), Fudan University (China), and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany). He is a recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including Alexander von Humboldt and Fulbright-Hays. Prof. 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).

Recent books

  • Communities of Memory and Interpretation: Reimagining and Reinventing the Past in East Asian Buddhism (ed.). Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series 10. Bochum: Projektverlag, 2018.
  • The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (ed.). The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
  • Introducing Chinese Religions. London and New York: Routledge, 2009.
  • Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Recent awards

  • Conference grant, Elling O. Eide Center, Sarasota, 2021 ($ 20,000; for a conference on ritual and contemplative practices in Chinese religions).
  • Visiting (Professor) Fellowship, International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), 2019 (12 months; approx. € 80,000, plus funding for an international conference). Project topic: Premonitions and Predictions of Future Events in the Chan Tradition of Chinese Buddhism.
  • Humboldt Research Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany); Universität Hamburg, 2018 (3 months; € 10,950).
  • Visiting Scholar Fellowship, International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization, Fudan University (China), 2017 (spring); three months of research at Fudan University (approx. $ 8,000, plus $ 10,000 for international conference). Project topic: Development of Buddhist Monasticism in Late Medieval China.
  • Book publication grant (for Communities of Memory and Interpretation), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), 2017 (€ 3,300).
  • UF Research Foundation Professor, 2019-2022, ($ 18,000).
  • UF Term Professorship, 2018-2021 ($ 15,000).
  • Colonel Allen R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor, 2018–2019 ($ 6,000).
  • Interdisciplinary Team-teaching in the Humanities grant, for developing a new course on Buddhism and Film, spring 2017 (with Ying Xiao, $ 8,000).
  • Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (for summer research), 2020 ($ 10,800).
  • Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), 2013-15
  • University of Florida Research Foundation Professor, 2011-2014