Dr Wendi Adamek
BA (Int'l Relations), MA (East Asian Studies), PhD (Religion), Stanford University.
Lecturer in East Asian Buddhism
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
| Telephone | +6 2 9351 3083 |
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Biographical details
Wendi Adamek teaches topics in Buddhism, Chinese religions, and contemporary social theory pertaining to environmental issues. She has been a Fulbright Fellow at Kyoto University (1990) and Peking University (2004), a National Endowment for the Humanities recipient (2001), a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow (2009), and an American Academy of Religion book award recipient. Her first two books centered on an 8th century Chan/Zen community in Sichuan, and her current research centers on a 7th century Buddhist community in north China.
Research interests
- Chan/Zen Buddhism
- Daoism
- Chinese Buddhist Art and Archaeology
- Dunhuang Studies
- Religion and the Environment
- Cultural Studies
Teaching and supervision
- Chan/Zen Buddhism
- Chinese religions
- East Asian Buddhism
- Ecology and religion
- Daoism
- Women and Buddhism
- “Gift” studies, networks, and religion