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Ryan Richard Overbey

Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies

Department Chair

Office:  Ladd 212
Phone:  (518) 580-5412
Email:  roverbey@skidmore.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Harvard University, Committee on the Study of Religion (2010)
• A.B., Brown University, Classics & Sanskrit and Religious Studies (2001)

Teaching and Research Interests:

Buddhism, Chinese religions, Indian religions, Tantra, esoteric traditions, ritual, theory and method in the study of religion, digital humanities.

I work at the intersection of ritual and intellectual history in the Buddhist tradition, probing the close links between theory and practice, between philosophy and liturgy. My work focuses on the edition and interpretation of ritual texts and magical grimoires preserved in Chinese, Sanskrit, and Tibetan in the first millennium CE.

Courses:

• AS 101 Introduction to Asian Studies
• AS251 Asian Ecologies and Cosmologies
• RE 103 Understanding Religions
• RE 221 Buddhism: An Introduction
• RE 222 Mindfully White: Race and Power in American Buddhism
• RE 321 Buddhism and the Body

Books:

• . Forthcoming in 2026 from SUNY Press.
• . Co-edited with Michelle Wang. Brill, 2024.
• , co-edited with David B. Gray. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Articles and Chapters:

• 鈥淎 Gandha虅ran among the Tu虉rks: Buddhist texts and travels in the biography of *Dhya虅nagupta (528鈥�605).鈥� In Ryan Richard Overbey and Michelle Wang, eds. . Brill, 2024.
• Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 42 (2020): 493鈥� 514.
• 鈥淭丑别 Consecration Scripture Spoken by the Buddha on Being Reborn in Whichever of the Pure Lands of the Ten Directions You Wish.鈥� In Georgios Halkias and Richard K. Payne, eds., 33鈥�55. Pure Land Buddhist Studies Series. University of Hawai鈥榠 Press, 2019.
• 鈥淭丑别 Sutra on the Profound Kindness of Parents.鈥� In Martin Baumann and Sun Hua, eds. , Sichuan Province 4, 119鈥�121. Harrassowitz, 2018.
• 鈥�The Perfection of Wisdom in the Sutras.鈥� In , ed. Claudia Wenzel and Sun Hua, Sichuan Province 3: 123鈥�127. Harrassowitz, 2016.
• 鈥淰icissitudes of text and rite in the Great Peahen Queen of Spells.鈥� In , ed. David B. Gray and Ryan Richard Overbey, 257鈥�283. Oxford University Press, 2016.
• 鈥淪croll 12 and 11 of the Consecration Sutra.鈥� In , ed. Tsai Suey-Ling and Sun Hua, Sichuan Province 2: 24鈥�34. Harrassowitz, 2015.
• 鈥淥n the appearance of siddhis in Chinese Buddhist texts.鈥� In . Ed. Knut Axel Jacobsen, 127鈥�144. Brill, 2012.

Fellowships and Honors:

• ACLS / Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Grant for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations: funding for full year of pre-tenure research leave to prepare translation of the Consecration Scripture, 2021鈥�2022
• Shinj艒 It艒 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2013鈥�2015
• Harvard Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship, 2008鈥�2009
• Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 2008
• Harvard Graduate Student Council Summer Conference Grant, 2008
• Harvard Extension School Commendation for distinguished teaching performance, 2008
• Harvard Presidential Instructional Technology Fellowship Award for Achievement in Instructional Technology, 2007
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 2001鈥�2005
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2001