Text and Context in East Asian Buddhism
Saturday, September 12, 2015 - 9:00am
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
A symposium held in celebration of the completion of the translation of Dogen’s Shobo genzo, a multi-year project of Stanley Weinstein of Yale University, Will Bodiford of UCLA, T. Griffith Foulk of Sarah Lawrence College, Carl Bielefeldt of Stanford University and the late John McRae.
Presenters and Talk Titles:
Morning Session: China
Tim Barrett | Re-reading the Four Great Rulers of the World |
Daniel Getz | Organizing the Pure Land: Wang Rixiu’s Recension of the Wuliangshou Fo Jing |
Eric Greene | Meditation texts carved during the Kaiyuan era at the ‘Grove of the Reclining Buddha’ (Wofoyuan 臥佛院) in Anyue 安岳, Sichuan |
Morten Schlutter | Who Wrote the Platform Sūtra, When and Why? |
Yamabe Nobuyoshi | Guanjing bianxiang through Digital Restoration |
Yifa | Chinese Policy on Buddhism under the New Leadership |
Afternoon Session: Japan
William Bodiford | Anraku Ritsu: Moral Discourse in Historical Context |
James Dobbins | Framing Japanese Buddhist Art |
Theodore Foulk | My Understanding of Dōgen’s Genjō kōan |
Paul Groner | Medieval Japanese Tendai Doctrinal Justifications of Violence |
Sarah Horton | Some Thoughts on Ippen and the Nenbutsu |
Richard Jaffe | Inter-Religious Dialogue in the 1930s and the Genesis of D. T. Suzuki’s Zen and Its influence on Japanese Culture |
Edward Kamens | Lotus Sutra poems by Fujiwara no Teika |
Region:
China, Japan