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Jimmy Yu

 

Assistant Professor of Religion

M05 Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Fax: (850) 644-7225

Curriculum Vitae

 


 

Background

Jimmy Yu (Ph.D. ’08, Princeton University, Department of Religion) teaches courses in East Asian religious traditions, specializing in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism and late imperial Chinese cultural history. His research interests include the cultural history of the body, Buddhist monasticism, Chan/Zen Buddhism, and popular religions within the broader context of fifteenth to seventeenth centuries China.

Dr. Yu is a grant committee advisor of the Sheng Yen Education Foundation Grant for Ph.D. Dissertation Research on Modern Chinese Buddhism, and is currently revising his doctoral dissertation for publication.

Recent Courses

Fall 2008

REL 2350 / HUM 2937: Religions of East Asia
REL 3340: The Buddhist Tradition

 

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