インド哲学仏教学演習VII

(The following represents a draft reading list a revised list will be given in class) Week 0: Introduction and Overview This week we will give an overview of the course topic and policies of the course. Week 1: Historiography and Periodization This week we will discuss how Buddhism has been studied in the modern era, and some overarching issues in the field of Japanese Buddhist Studies. Readings: McMullin, Neil. 1989. “Historical and Historiographical Issues in the Study of Pre-Modern Japanese Religions.” _JJRS_ vol. 16, no. 1: 3–40. Hubbard, Jamie. 1992. “Premodern, Modern, and Postmodern: Doctrine and the Study of Japanese Religion.” _JJRS_ vol. 19, no. 1: 3–27. McMullin, Neil. 1992. “Which Doctrine? Whose ‘Religion’?: A Rejoinder.” _JJRS_ vol. 19, no. 1: 29–39. Sueki, Fumihiko. 2006. “Buddhism in the History of Japanese Religion: Research History and Research Methods.” _Acta Asiatica: Special Issue: The Cutting Edge of Research on Japanese Buddhism_ vol. 91: 85–103. Klautau, Orion. 2008. “Against the Ghosts of Recent Past: Meiji Scholarship and the Discourse on Edo-Period Buddhist Decadence.” _JJRS_ vol. 35, no. 2: 263–303. Week 2: Nara Buddhism This week will focus on the work of Bryan Lowe and Buddhism under the earliest "State" in Japan. Readings: Lowe, Bryan D. 2014. “States of ‘State Buddhism’: History, Religion, and Politics in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Scholarship.” Japanese Religions vol. 39, no. 1 & 2: 71–93. ———. 2017. Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan. Studies in East Asian Buddhism ; 27. 1 online resource vols. University of Hawaiʻi Press. Week 3 and 4: Saichō (Groner, Adolphson) These two weeks will focus respectively on Saichō and Kūkai, the transition to the Heian period. Readings (Week 3): Groner, Paul. 2000. _Saichō: The Establishment of the Japanese Tendai School_. Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series ; 7. University of Hawai’i Press. Adolphson, Mikael S. 2000. _The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan_. University of Hawaiʻi Press. Readings (Week 4): Abé, Ryūichi. 1999. _The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse_. Columbia University Press. Hakeda, Yoshito S. 1972. _Kūkai: Major Works_. Columbia University Press. Dobbins, James C., ed. 1996. “The Legacy of Kuroda Toshio.” _JJRS_ vol. 23, no. 3–4. Kuroda, Toshio, and Jacqueline I. Stone. 1996. “The Imperial Law and the Buddhist Law.” _JJRS_ vol. 23, no. 3/4: 271–85. Sueki Fumihiko 末木文美士. 1996. “A Reexamination of the Kenmitsu Taisei Theory.” _JJRS_ vol. 23, no. 3/4: 449–66. Week 5-7: Zen, Pure Land, and Nichiren Buddhism These weeks will focus on several figures related to "New Kamakura Buddhism." Readings (Week 5): Dobbins, James C. 2002. _Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan_. Hawai’i UP. . Dobbins, James C. 2004. _Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan_. Hawai'i UP Blum, Mark L. 2002. _The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism : A Study and Translation of Gyōnen’s Jōdo Hōmon Genrushō_. Oxford UP. Reading (Week 6): Bodiford, William M. 1993. _Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan_. Hawai'i UP. Matsuo, Kenji. 1997. “What is Kamakura New Buddhism?: Official Monks and Reclusive Monks.” _JJRS_ vol. 24, no. 1/2: 179–89. Readings (Week 7): Stone, Jacqueline Ilyse. 1990. “Some disputed writings in the Nichiren corpus: Textual, hermeneutical and historical problems.” PhD Dissertation, UCLA. Stone, Jacqueline I. 2017. _Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism_. Hawai'i UP. Yampolsky, Philip B. 1990. _Selected Writings of Nichiren_. Translations from the Oriental Classics. Columbia UP. Hubbard, Jamie, and Paul L. Swanson, eds. 1997. _Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhism_. Hawai’i UP. Week 8: Buddhism in the early modern and modern era This week will focus on the transition between the pre-modern and early modern period. Ketelaar, James Edward. 1990. _Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution_. Princeton UP. Victoria, Daizen. 2006. _Zen at War_. 2nd ed. War and Peace Library. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Satō, Kemmyō Taira. 2008. “D. T. Suzuki and the Question of War.” Translated by Thomas Kirchner. _The Eastern Buddhist_ vol. 39, no. 1: 61–120. Week 9: Women and Families in Japanese Buddhism This week will focus on particular issues related to gender and the social issues that arise from the family structure of Japanese Buddhism. Meeks, Lori R. 2010. _Hokkeji and the reemergence of female monastic orders in premodern Japan_. Hawai'i UP. Jaffe, Richard M. 2001. _Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism_. Princeton UP. Week 10: Japanese Buddhism Outside Japan This week will discuss how Buddhism has been brought to parts of the world that Japanese have immigrated. Williams, Duncan Ryūken. 2019. _American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War_. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Mitchell, Scott A. 2023. _The Making of American Buddhism_. Oxford UP. Usarski, Frank, and Rafael Shoji. 2017. “Buddhism, Shinto and Japanese New Religions in Brazil.” In _Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil_, edited by Bettina Schmidt and Steven Engler, 279–94. Brill. Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee. 2012. _Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877-1912_. Harvard East Asian Monographs 344. Harvard University Asia Center. Week 11: Buddhism and Politics in Modern Japanese Society This week will focus on the function of Buddhism in Japan in the 20th and 21st century. McLaughlin, Levi. 2019. _Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan_. Hawai'i UP. McLaughlin, Levi, Aike P Rots, Jolyon Baraka Thomas, and Chika Watanabe. 2020. “Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form.” _Journal of the American Academy of Religion_ vol. 88, no. 3: 693–725. . Thomas, Jolyon Baraka. 2019. _Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan_. The University of Chicago Press. Week 12: Conclusions and Student Presentations This week will feature student presentations and concluding thoughts about the course.

This course will focus on reading and discussing works written in English. Students will be expected to read as many as 60 to 100 pages of academic writing in English per week, and will also be expected to produce short weekly summary and reflection papers, as well as a final research paper.

Grading will be based on attendance, participation, and preparation for class, as well as a final major assignment. Students are expected to attend all class sessions. In cases of illness, emergency or other personal circumstances, please notify the instructor before the class begins. In some circumstances, the instructor may ask for additional work to make up for any missed class session. "Participation and preparation" mean that it is expected that students come having read the required material and be ready to discuss. Details on how this will proceed will vary depending on the reading, and will be discussed in class. The final assignment will consist of a writing project related to the course, and relevant to the individual needs of the students enrolled in the course. This may be either an annotated translation of a section of a text that was dealt with during the course, or another related work, or possibly an academic essay or report on a topic related to the course or East Asian religion or history. Details will be given during the course.

This course will focus on reading and discussing works written in English. Students will be expected to read as many as 60 to 100 pages of academic writing in English per week, and will also be expected to produce short weekly summary and reflection papers, as well as a final research paper. However, qlthough some level of English is expected for the class, students will not be judged on the accuracy of their English.