HRHS-8152: Buddhist Traditions of East Asia Spring Syllabus

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1 HRHS-8152: Buddhist Traditions of East Asia Spring 2011 Syllabus Abbreviations: BIP = Buddhism in Practice, Abridged Edition (Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., [Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007]); one of your required books. BIP (1995) = Buddhism in Practice, the original edition, containing 10 more articles than the abridged edition. Articles from this edition will be available on the website. Readings labeled see also are not required. They are mentioned as further reading for students interested in the week s topic. Week 1 (Jan 31 Feb 4) Introductions The scope and emphases of the course; East Asian Buddhist languages; the Silk Road and the transmission of Buddhism to China Students should post their self-introductions by Feb. 5. I. Buddhism in China Week 2 (Feb 7 11) Buddhism Comes to China: Its Settings, Early Crises, and Innovations (3 rd 6 th centuries) [R1] Stephen Taiser, The Spirits of Chinese Religion, in Donald Lopez, ed., Religions of China in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996): [R2] Kenneth Ch en, Buddhism in China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964): BIP, Ch. 15: Kyoko Tokuno, The Book of Resolving Doubts Concerning the Semblance Dharma. [R3] Jamie Hubbard, A Heretical Chinese Buddhist Text, in BIP (1995), Total reading: 79 pages

2 8.1.1 The First Monk, the First Temple, and the Emperor Ming, Buddhism and Filial Piety in China, Week 3 (Feb 14 18) The Sinification of Buddhism I: The Huayan School, and Buddha-nature (tathāgata-garbha) as Heresy (6 th 7 th centuries) [R4] Paul Williams, Hua-yen The Flower Garland Tradition, in Williams, Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations (New York: Routledge, 1989): [R5] Yoshito Hakeda, The Awakening of Faith (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967): [R6] Paul Swanson, Why They Say Zen Is Not Buddhism, in Jamie Hubbard and Paul Swanson, eds., Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm over Critical Buddhism (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997): Total reading: 89 pages BIP, Ch. 7: William Grosnick, The Tathāgatagarbha Sutra The Icchantika Question: Do All Beings Have the Buddha-nature?, Week 4 (Feb 21 25) The Sinification of Buddhism II: The Lotus Sutra and the Tiantai School (6 th 7 th centuries) [R7] Paul Williams, The Saddharmapunkarika (Lotus) Sutra and Its Influences, in Mahayana Buddhism: [R8] Selections from the Lotus Sutra: Leon Hurvitz, trans., Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma (The Lotus Sūtra): Translated from the Chinese of Kumārajīva (New York: Columbia University Press: 1976): Preface and chapters 3, 4, 12, 23, and 25. [R9] Kenneth Chen, The T ien-t ai School, in Buddhism in China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1964): [R10] Neal Donner, Sudden and Gradual Intimately Conjoined: Chih-i s T ien-t ai View, in Peter Gregory, ed., Sudden and Gradual Approaches to Enlightenment (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, Kuroda Institute, 1987): Total reading: 108 pages

3 Week 5 (Feb 28 Mar 4) Buddhism and Society I: The Magical and Miraculous in Medieval China (Tang and Song periods, 7 th 13 th centuries) [R11] John Kieschnick, The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Kuroda Institute, 1997): Introduction, Chapter 2, Thaumaturgy, [R12] Robert Ford Campany, The Earliest Tales of the Bodhisattva Guanshiyin, in Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., Religions of China in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996): BIP, Ch. 35: Daniel Stevenson, Death-bed Testimonials of the Pure Land Faithful (11 pages) Total reading: 89 pages BIP, Ch. 26: Daniel Stevenson, Tales of the Lotus Sutra. BIP, Ch. 10: Chun-fang Yu, Chinese Women s Pilgrims Songs Glorifying Guanyin The Legend of Miao-shan, A Buddhist Attack on Sexism, The Commercial Activities of Chinese Buddhist Communities, Week 6 (Mar 7 11) The Chan ( Meditation ) School: Rewriting the Meaning of Meditation (7 th 13 th centuries) [R13] Philip Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967): 1 57; ; [R14] T. Griffith Foulk, Myth, Ritual, and Monastic Practice in Sung Ch an Buddhism, in Patricia Ebrey and Peter Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T ang and Sung China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993): Total reading: 145 pages BIP, Ch. 27: T. Griffith Foulk, Daily Life in the Assembly. II. Buddhism in Korea Week 7 (Mar 15 18)

4 Buddhism in the Kingdom of Silla (6 th 7 th centuries) [R15] Rhi Ki-yong, Silla Buddhism: Its Special Features [R16] Lee Ki-baek, Early Silla Buddhism and the Power of the Aristocracy, [R17] Jonathan W. Best, King Mu and the Making and Meanings of Miruksa, in Religions of Korea in Practice, edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2007), [R18] Pankaj N. Mohan, Won gwang and Chajang in the Formation of Early Silla Buddhism, in Religions of Korea in Practice, [R19] Richard D. McBride, A Miraculous Tale of Buddhist Practice during the Unified Silla, in Religions of Korea in Practice, Total reading: 66 pages [No discussion forum for this week; will wait until week 9) NB. Please confirm the topic for your annotated bibliography with Lisa by this week. Week 8 (March 21 25) NO CLASS: GTU Spring Break Week 9 (Mar 28 Apr 1) Modern Korean Buddhism: Popular Beliefs, Exorcism, and Son (Zen) (approx. 16 th 20 th centuries) [R20] Younghee Lee, Hell and Other Karmic Consequences: A Buddhist Vernacular Song, in Religions of Korea in Practice, [R21] Patrick R. Uhlmann, A Buddhist Rite of Exorcism, in Religions of Korea in Practice, [R22] Robert Buswell, The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992): [Optional] Chapter 1: Buddhism in Contemporary Korea, Chapter 3: Songgwang-Sa and Master Kusan, Chapter 7: Zen Meditation in Korea, Chapter 8: Training in the Meditation Hall, Monks and Marriage in Korea, Total reading: 85 pages (15 pages optional) BIP, Ch. 33: Robert Buswell, Hagiographies of the Korean Monk Wonhyo.

5 III. Buddhism in Japan Week 10 (Apr 4 8) The King s Law is the Buddha-dharma : Early Japanese Buddhism and the State (and Korea) (6 th 8 th centuries) [R16] Sonoda Kōyū, Early Buddha Worship, in The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. I: Ancient Japan, edited by Delmer Brown (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993): [R17] William Deal, Buddhism and the State in Early Japan, in BIP (1995), The Legend of Prince Shōtoku, Total reading: 77 pages NB: Annotated bibliography due week 11 Week 11 (Apr 11 15) Esoteric Buddhism(s) in Japan: Saichō and Kūkai, the Clash of Giants (8 th 9 th centuries) [R18] Richard Bowring, The Religious Traditions of Japan, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005): Chapter 5. The Beginnings of a Japanese Buddhism: Tendai, Chapter 6. The Beginnings of a Japanese Buddhism: Shingon, Appendices: Reading Shingon s Two Mandala, OPTIONAL: Chapter 7. Buddhism and the State in Heian Japan, OPTIONAL: Section 10.4 The spread of tantric modes of thought, [R19] Ryūichi Abe, Saichō and Kūkai: A Conflict of Interpretations, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 22, nos. 1 2 (1995): (Also available online from the journal s website) Total reading: 85 pages (33 optional pages) Kūkai, Attaining Enlightenment in This Very Existence, in Kūkai: Major Works, Regulation and Reform: Saichō s Deathbed Admonitions,

6 Week 12 (Apr 18 22) Buddhism and Society II: Buddhas and Kami (Shinto deities) (11 th 13 th centuries) [R20] John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, Introduction: Shinto Past and Present, in John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, eds., Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami (Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2000): [R21] Robert Morrell, Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishū): The Tales of Mujū Ichien, a Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985): Introduction, Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishū), [R22] Miyazaki Fumiko, "Religious Life of the Kamakura Bushi," Monumenta Nipponica 47, no. 4 (1992): Buddhism and Shintō: The Monk Myōe Visits a Shintō Shrine, Rites in Tenth-century Japan, Dear Abbot Letters from Heian Japan, Total reading: 98 pages Week 13 (Apr 25 29) Original Enlightenment (hongaku) and New Kamakura Buddhism: Part I. Original Enlightenment and Zen (Sōtō School) (13 th century) [R23] Jacqueline Stone, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Japanese Buddhism (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, Kuroda Institute, 1999): OPTIONAL: What is Original Enlightenment Thought? REQUIRED: Original Enlightenment and the Question of Evil, Tendai Honkagu Thought and the New Kamakura Buddhism: A Shared Paradigm, BIP, Ch. 6: George Tanabe, Myōe s Letter to the Island (4 pages). [R25] William Bodiford, Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai I Press, 1993): Chapter 1, Introduction, Chapter 2, Dōgen: The Founder of Eiheiji, Chapter 10, The Popularization of Sōtō, Chapter 12, Kōan Zen, Chapter 13, Precepts and Ordinations,

7 [R26] Barry Stephenson, The Kōan as Ritual Performance, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 73/2 (June 2005): Meditational Endeavors: Kōans and Hakuin s First Satori, Total reading: 132 pages (40 optional pages) See also regarding original enlightenment: BIP, Ch. 13: Jackie Stone, Original Enlightenment Thought in the Nichiren Tradition. See also regarding Zen: BIP, Ch. 4: Carl Bielefeldt, Reading Others Minds. BIP, Ch. 12: Carl Bielefeldt, A Discussion of Seated Zen. BIP, Ch. 30: Sallie King, Awakening Stories of Zen Buddhist Women. Week 14 (May 2 6) Original Enlightenment (hongaku) and New Kamakura Buddhism: Part II. Pure Land (nenbutsu) Movements (13 th century) [R27] Robert Morrell, Hossō s Jōkei and the Kōfukuji Petition, in Robert Morrell, Early Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report (Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1987): [R28] James Dobbins, Jōdo Shinshū: Shin Buddhism in Medieval Japan (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1989): Shinran and His Teachings, Licensed Evil, Dobbins, Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Total reading: 102 pages [R29] James Dobbins, Shinran s Faith as Immediate Fulfillment in Pure Land Buddhism, in Tanabe, Religions of Japan in Practice: BIP, Ch. 34: Sybil Thornton, Buddhist Chaplains in the Field of Battle The Recitation of Amida s Name Once or Many Times?, Week 15 (May 9 13) Buddhism and Society III: Life, Death, Sex and Gender in the Japanese Landscape (13 th 18 th centuries) Dobbins, Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Chapter 3, Pure Land Buddhism and the Medieval Experience, Chapter 4, Women, Sexuality, and Pure Land Buddhism,

8 Nichiren on Chanting and Menstruation, in The Experience of Buddhism (2 nd edition), [R30] Anna Seidel, "Mountains and Hells: Religious Geography in Japanese mandara Paintings," Studies in Central and East Asian Religions 5/6 (1992 3): [R31] Duncan Ryūken Williams, Funerary Zen: Managing the Dead in the World Beyond, chapter 3 in The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005): Total reading: 94 pages Week 16 (May 16 20) Buddhism in Meiji Japan: The Destruction of Buddhism (and Shinto), and Buddhism Encounters the West ( ) [R32] Allan Grapard, Japan s Ignored Cultural Revolution: The Separation of Shinto and Buddhist Divinities in Meiji (shinbutsu bunri) and a Case Study: Tōnomine, History of Religions 23/3 (1984): [R33] James Ketelaar, The Reconvening of Babel: Eastern Buddhism and the 1893 World s Parliament of Religions, chapter 4 in Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1990): Total reading: 62 pages Epilogue: Gary Snyder, Smokey the Bear Sutra, Experience of Buddhism,