Meir Shahar (; born in 1959 in

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) is the Shaul Eisenberg Chair for East Asian Affairs at

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Academic career

Meir Shahar attended the

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and then studied Chinese in

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. He obtained a PhD in Asian languages and civilizations at

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in 1992.His research interests include the interplay of Chinese religion and Chinese literature, Chinese martial-arts history, Chinese esoteric Buddhism, and the impact of Indian mythology of the Chinese pantheon of divinities.

Published works

Books

*Chinese and Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism. Co-edited with Yael Bentor. Leiden: Brill, 2017. *Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015. *India in the Chinese Imagination: Myth, Religion, and Thought. Co-edited with John Kieschnick. Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. * ''The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts'', The University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. * Monkey and the Magic Gourd (קוף ודלעת הקסמים) (in Hebrew). By Wu Cheng'en. Translated and Adapted by Meir Shahar. Drawings by Noga Zhang Shahar (נגה ג'אנג שחר). Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2008. * Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature, Harvard University Asia Center, 1998 *The Chinese Religion (הדת הסינית) (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv: The Broadcast University Series Press, 1998. * Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China. Co-edited with Robert Weller. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996.

Essays

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Reviews

''The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion and the Chinese Martial Arts'' * * ''Oedipal God: The Chinese Nezha and his Indian Origins'' * ''Crazy Ji: Chinese Religion and Popular Literature'' * *

References

External links

* * https://english.tau.ac.il/profile/mshahar {{DEFAULTSORT:Shahar, Meir Living people Harvard University alumni Academic staff of Tel Aviv University Year of birth missing (living people) East Asian studies scholars