James Duncan Gentry
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
2024-25 Courses
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Independent Studies (6)
- Individual Work
RELIGST 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work for Graduate Students
RELIGST 389 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Paper in the Field
RELIGST 392 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Research in Buddhist Studies
RELIGST 385 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Senior Essay/Honors Thesis Research
RELIGST 297 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Teaching Internship
RELIGST 390 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Buddhism and Medicine
RELIGST 103 (Aut) - Ritual and the Senses in Asian Religions
RELIGST 224, RELIGST 324 (Win) - Translating Religion
RELIGST 210, RELIGST 310 (Win)
2022-23 Courses
- Buddha's Brain and the New Science of Mind
RELIGST 14N (Aut) - Buddhist Philosophy
RELIGST 116 (Win) - Readings in Tibetan Literature
RELIGST 250, RELIGST 350 (Aut)
2021-22 Courses
- Buddhist Philosophy
RELIGST 116 (Aut) - Buddhist Tantra
RELIGST 153 (Win) - Readings in Tibetan Literature
RELIGST 350 (Aut) - Translating Religion
RELIGST 210, RELIGST 310 (Aut)
- Buddhism and Medicine
Stanford Advisees
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Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
David Monteserin Narayana -
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor (AC)
Julia Hirsch, Oriane Lavole
All Publications
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Changing Bodies Seven Times: Padampa Sangyé's Pacifying Tradition and the Birth of the Mani Pill
REVUE D ETUDES TIBETAINES
2023: 69-153
View details for Web of Science ID 001085256500003
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"May it Meet with a Karmically Destined Mahakaru?ika Yogin!"-Ratna Lingpa's Renewal of the Mani-Pill Tradition in Fifteenth Century Tibet(1)
REVUE D ETUDES TIBETAINES
2023: 94-229
View details for Web of Science ID 000982401900003
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THE BUDDHIST BODY IN A PILL Notes Towards a Material History of Tantra in Tibet
ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND THE BODY
2023: 320-332
View details for DOI 10.4324/9781003058502-26
View details for Web of Science ID 001008734500023
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Why Did the Cannibal King Fly? Tantric Transformations of an Indian Narrative
REVUE D ETUDES TIBETAINES
2022: 84-135
View details for Web of Science ID 000993608100005
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Arguing over the Buddhist Pedigree of Tibetan Medicine: A Case Study of Empirical Observation and Traditional Learning in 16th-and 17th-Century Tibet
RELIGIONS
2019; 10 (9)
View details for DOI 10.3390/rel10090530
View details for Web of Science ID 000487952500019