Rate My Professor Stephen Bokenkamp

Bokenkamp's major publications include the award-winning Early Daoist Scriptures (University of California Press, 1997), which received the Philip E. Lilienthal Book Award; Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China (University of California Press, 2007); and Daojiao yanjiu lunji (Zhongxi shuju, 2015). He has authored numerous influential articles, such as 'The Early Lingbao Scriptures and the Origins of Chinese Monasticism' (2011), 'Sisters of the Blood: The Lives of the Daoist Nuns Behind the Xie Ziran Biography' (2016), and contributions to volumes like the Cambridge History of China. His honors encompass a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2012) for translating Declarations of the Perfected, President's Carnegie Fellowship (2014), Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellowships (2008, 2018), Edwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study (2018), and visiting fellowships at the Australian National University (1999) and Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (2017). A conference in his honor, 'Scripture, Community, and Canon in Early Daoism,' was organized by former students at Princeton University in 2017. Bokenkamp's meticulous translations and analyses have profoundly impacted scholarship on Daoist ritual, poetry, and its interplay with Buddhism.