Joshua Capitanio
Curator for East & Southeast Asian Studies
Curator for Religious Studies Collections
Public Services Librarian, East Asia Library
As Curator for East and Southeast Asian Studies and Curator for Religious Studies Collections, I am responsible for developing Stanford's Western-language collections in the areas of East and Southeast Asian studies, and for curating print and electronic materials for the study of both Eastern and Western religious traditions. As Public Services Librarian at the East Asia Library, I manage the library's outreach activities, such as exhibits and other events.
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Joshua Capitanio
Curator for East & Southeast Asian Studies
Curator for Religious Studies Collections
Public Services Librarian, East Asia Library
As Curator for East and Southeast Asian Studies and Curator for Religious Studies Collections, I am responsible for developing Stanford's Western-language collections in the areas of East and Southeast Asian studies, and for curating print and electronic materials for the study of both Eastern and Western religious traditions. As Public Services Librarian at the East Asia Library, I manage the library's outreach activities, such as exhibits and other events.
Education
- Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
- M.A., East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Chinese, University of California Los Angeles
Professional activities
American Academy of Religion
Association for Asian Studies
Council on East Asian Libraries
International Association of Buddhist Studies
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
Selected publications
"Epidemics and Plague in Premodern Chinese Buddhism." Asian Medicine 16 (2021): 177-192.
"Ritual and Self-Cultivation in the Daoist Practice of 'Oblatory Refinement.'" Numen 67, no. 1 (2020): 29-72.
"Three Tibetan Buddhist Texts on the Dangers of Tobacco." In Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Sources, ed. C. Pierce Salguero, 65-86. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.
"Sanskrit and Pseudo-Sanskrit Incantations in Daoist Ritual Texts." History of Religions 57, no. 4 (2018): 348-405.
C. Pierce Salguero, Robban Toleno, William J. Giddings, Joshua Capitanio, and Marcus Bingenheimer, "Medicine in the Chinese Buddhist Canon: Selected Translations." Asian Medicine 12 (2017): 279-294.
"The Ritual Altar of Kundali Vajra for Treating Illnesses." In Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, ed. C. Pierce Salguero, 314-321. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
"Buddhist Tales of Lü Dongbin." T'oung Pao 102, no. 4-5 (2016): 448-502.
"Portrayals of Chan Buddhism in the Literature of Internal Alchemy." Journal of Chinese Religions 43, no. 2 (2015): 1-42.
"Health, Illness, and the Body in Buddhist and Daoist Self-Cultivation." In Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion, ed. Ithamar Theodor and Yao Zhihua, 181-194. Lanham: Lexington Books (2013).
"Religious Ritual." In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions, ed. Randall Nadeau, 309-334. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2012).
"Esoteric Buddhist Elements in Daoist Ritual Manuals of the Song, Yuan, and Ming." In Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia, ed. Charles D. Orzech et al., 529-535. Leiden: Brill (2010).