Weekly Schedule - REL440/540 Buddhist Scriptures

 

(CR = Course Reader. Thus, CR3 = Course Reader Article 3; RT = Required Text. Focus readings in asterisks* )

Week 1, 9/26: Background of Buddhism: Indian Sutras I

Week 2, 10/03: Indian Sutras II

Week 3, 10/10: Indian Sutras III; Chinese Philosophical Adaptations Short Exam A in class.

Week 4, 10/17: The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: Early Chinese Chan/Zen Paper I due in class.

Week 5, 10/24: Medieval Japan I: Zen Master Dogen

Week 6, 10/31: Medieval Japan II: Pure Land Buddhism of Shinran

Week 7, 11/07: Contemporary Zen, a Jewish American Woman: Natalie Goldberg Paper II due in class.

Week 8, 11/14: Contemporary Pure Land: Coffinman

Week 9, 11/21: Research Assignments

Week 10, 11/28: Concluding Lecture/Discussion Final Paper due in class.

 


Additional Bibliography for REL540 Graduate-Level Credit 

  1. Amstutz, Galen. Interpreting Amida : history and Orientalism in the study of Pure Land Buddhism Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
  2. Andreasen, Esben. Popular Buddhism in Japan: Shin Buddhist religion & culture. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1998.
  3. Bodiford, William. Soto Zen in medieval Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1993.
  4. Buswell, Robert, ed. Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1990.
  5. Faure, Bernard. The Rhetoric of Immediacy : a cultural critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1991.
  6. _____. Visions of Power : imagining medieval Japanese Buddhism; translated from the French by Phyllis Brooks. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996
  7. Hansen, Chad. A Daoist Theory of ChineseTthought : a philosophical interpretation. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
  8. Heisig, James and Maraldo, John, eds. Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, & the Question of Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1995.
  9. Ketelaar, James. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1990.
  10. McRae, John. The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chan Buddhism. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c1986.
  11. Meeks, Lori. Lori Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010).
  12. Tanaka, Kenneth. The Dawn of Chinese Pure Land Buddhist Doctrine : Ching-ying Hui-y_an's Commentary on the Visualization sutra. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1990.
  13. Teiser, Stephen. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988
  14.  _____. The Scripture on The Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Press, c1994.
  15. Victoria, Brian. Zen at War. New York: Weatherhill, 1998.