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27 Jun 2024: Search. Curing Thousands of Diseases. One of the great privileges of working in The Parker Library is the opportunity to slowly discover the collections, to spend a few minutes looking at a manuscript whose shelfmark you don’t recognise, to talk to readers working on things you’ve never considered, to share in the excitement of new discoveries, and to learn just a little bit more about an item, bit by bit. One could spend a lifetime getting to know the collection, but even given many such lifetimes, there would still be many items that I will never even begin to understand; for now, they must remain filed away in memory, black holes sitting next to the tiny pinpricks of light that are connected to their neighbors on the shelves. Every year we welcome the students from the Corpus Christi Medicine and English Summer School Program to The Parker Library. During each of these visits we give the participants a tour of our current exhibition and then bring out a few items that we believe may be of particular interests to the students that they are allowed to (gently) explore as we talk about the history of the book. This year, I was delighted to share MS 227, Curing Thousands of Diseases, an eight volume Chinese work that was

27 Jun 2024: Historiography and Hagiography. in Buddhism and Beyond. 8-10 July, 2024. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟Foundation as part of the Yin-Cheng Network. and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation. as part of the Yin-Cheng Network and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. Note: All sessions take place in the Lucia Windsor Room in Newnham College, Sidgwick. Avenue, Cambridge. The conference is open to the public; no registration is required. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Welcome and Keynote Addresses Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Rey Sheng Her. The Public History of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2: The Life/Lives of the Buddha Chair: Richard Bowring Mario Poceski. Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha.

27 Jun 2024: This new page has been created to display online messages of condolence following the death of Professor Stephen Hawking, Fellow of Caius for over 50 years.  You are now free to roam this dimension with friends. All the best Merlin Jones

27 Jun 2024: Historiography and Hagiography. in Buddhism and Beyond. 8-10 July, 2024. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟Foundation as part of the Yin-Cheng Network. and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation. as part of the Yin-Cheng Network and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. Note: All sessions take place in the Lucia Windsor Room in Newnham College, Sidgwick. Avenue, Cambridge. The conference is open to the public; no registration is required. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Welcome and Keynote Addresses Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Rey Sheng Her. The Public History of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2: The Life/Lives of the Buddha Chair: Richard Bowring Mario Poceski. Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha.