About - Raoul BIRNBAUM

Raoul Birnbaum

University of Iowa. Previously: teaching positions at Princeton, Harvard and Cornell Universities; research fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current research: Buddhism in medieval China, sacred geography in a comparative perspective (also fieldwork on American Indian religions) ; completing the first volume of a study of Mt. Wu-t'ai in medieval times. Forthcoming: "Boundaries and Boundlessness in the Worlds of Medieval Chinese Buddhists," in Borders and Boundaries in Chinese Culture, ed. John Hay; and "Sound and Music in the Experiences of T'ang Buddhist Visionaries," in Collected Essays on Chinese Buddhist Music, ed. Yip Ming Mei, Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong.