- Rebecca Bloom received a Freer Fellowship for 2016-2017 to work at the Freer|Sackler Galleries, where she is contributing to the inaugural exhibition in the Robert H.N. Galleries of Buddhist Art.
- Chun Wa Chan received a John H. D’Arms Spring/Summer Fellowship, as well as a doctoral fellowship from the Japan Foundation in support of his research in Japan.
- Eric Haynie received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Chinese language study during the 2016-2017 academic year.
- Anna Wolcott Johnson received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship in support of her dissertation research on 12th-15th century Tibetan texts on the Geluk sect’s position on three-vow theory (sdom gsum), a comprehensive formulation of how the three sets of Buddhist vows progressively adhere to and function within a single individual’s mind and body. She was also the student recipient of a John D’Arms Award for translation work with Professor Donald Lopez on a philosophical treatise by Jangkya Rolpé Dorjé (1717-1786).
- Ha Nul Jun is engaged in two Korean-to-English translation projects. Samatha and Vipassana Meditation through the Experiences of a Psychiatrist is a manuscript detailing the practice of Vipassana in the Pa Auk tradition in Burma. “Tathagata” is a screenplay by Korean Director Jang Seon Woo about the Buddha’s life told through the perspective of his cousin and personal attendant, Ananda.
