#  James Robson 

 EALC: James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Director, Harvard Yenching Institute

 

 

 



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 location\_on 2 Divinity Avenue, Room 216 

 smartphone [(617) 495-8363](<tel:(617) 495-8363>) 

 email <jrobson@fas.harvard.edu> 

By appointment; please email.

 

 



 

*Research Interests:* History of Medieval Chinese Buddhism and Daoism; issues of sacred geography, local religious history, talismans, religious art, and the historical development of Chan/Zen Buddhism.



 

 

 





 

 

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