Mike Ryan Lecture Series October 22

Livia Kohn, Boston University
"Women in Daoism: Nuns, Priestesses, and Lay Practitioners"
Social Science 1019 at 12:30

Livia Kohn is Professor Emerita of Religion and East Asian Studies at Boston University. She has spent many years pursuing research on medieval Daoism and Chinese long life practices. She has taught many classes on Asian religions and is the author of over 25 books and numerous articles on Daoism and East Asian religions. She is arguably one of the top five Daoist Scholars in the world. Currently she teaches all over the world, hosts trips to various important Daoist and Buddhist sites throughout the Asian world and has begun her own retreat center at her home in the Cibola National Forest south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Livia Kohn has practiced taiji quan, qigong, meditation, and other Asian self-cultivation practices for over twenty years. She is also a certified instructor of Kripalu Yoga and a licensed hypnotist. She teaches regular workshops on Daoism in New Mexico and Chicago and runs international conferences on Daoist studies. She has lived in Japan for a total of ten years and traveled widely in Asia, especially in China, Korea, and Thailand.

A little more about Livia Kohn may be found at:
<http://www.bu.edu/religion/faculty/bios/kohn.html>.

This lecture is in conjunction with Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory and is sponsored by the Atlanta Center for Asian Studies.