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
- Peter
Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism,
9-26 (CR1).*
- Mark
Unno, "Key Ideas - Nagarjuna and the
Thought of Emptiness," 1 (CR11).*
- Donald
Lopez, Jr., The Heart Sutra Explained, 3-9, 19-20 (CR4).
Week
2, 10/03: Indian Sutras II
- Luis
Gomez, The Avatamsaka-Sutra,
160-189 (CR6).
- Thomas
Clearly, trans., Entry into the Inconceivable, 1-8, 49-59,
187-201 (CR7).
- Buddha-Dharma:
New English Edition, 17-21, 27-32, 502-505, 548-573
(CR2).*
- Richard
Hayes, "A Buddha and His Cousin
(CR3).
- Mark
Unno, "The Karma of Bodhisattva Devadatta"
(pdf)*
- Yoshiro
Tamura, "The Ideas of the Lotus Sutra," 37-51
(CR8).
- Leon
Hurvitz, trans., Scripture of the
Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma, ix-xv: 49-64, 195-201 (CR9).*
- Kate
Wheeler, "Bowing, Not Scraping,"
57-67 (CR28).*
Week
3, 10/10: Indian Sutras III;
Chinese Philosophical Adaptations
Short Exam A in class.
- Hisao
INAGAKI, The Three Pure Land Sutras:
A Study and Translation
3-18 ("Outlines of the Three Sutras," "The Source of the Three
Sutras); 106-114 (Shan-tao); 235-243
("The Larger Sutra on Amitayus");
317-327, 347-350 (The Sutra on Contemplation of Amitayus)
(CR10).*
- Taitetsu
Unno, "Philosophical Schools-San-lun,
T'ien-t'ai, and Hua-yen"
in Buddhist Spirituality, ed. by Takeuchi Yoshinori
343-365 (CR12).*
- Mark
Unno, "Key Ideas: Taitetsu Unno,
'Philosophical Schools: San-lun, T'ien-t'ai,
and Hua-yen'" 1-3 (CR8).*
Week
4, 10/17: The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti:
Early Chinese Chan/Zen
Paper I due in class.
- Robert
A. F. Thurman, trans., The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti,
Chapters 7 & 8 (RT).*
- Heinrich
Dumoulin, Zen Buddhism: A
History-India and China, 85-94 (CR13).*
- John
McCrae, Shen-hui and the
Teaching of Sudden Enlightenment in Early Ch'an
Buddhism, 227-259. (CR14).
- Philip
Yampolsky, trans., The Platform
Sutra of Hui-neng,
125-153 (CR15).*
Week
5,
10/24: Medieval Japan I: Zen Master Dogen
- Mark
Unno, "Philosophical Terms in the Zen Buddhist Thought of Dogen"
(CR17).*
- Norman
Waddell and Masao Abe, trans. "Shobogenzo
Genjokoan,"
by Dogen Kigen,
129-140 (CR18).*
- Norman
Waddell and Masao Abe, tr. "Shobogenzo Bendowa,"
by Dogen Kigen,
124-157 (CR19).
- Kosho
UCHIYAMA, Refining Your Life : From
the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment, vii-xiv, 3-19 (CR20).
- Barbara
Ruch, "The Other Side of Culture in
Medieval Japan," 500-511 (CR26).*
- Lori
Meeks, Hokkeji and the
Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders, 250-300 (CR25).*
Week
6, 10/31: Medieval Japan II: Pure Land Buddhism of Shinran
- Taitetsu Unno,
trans., Tannisho-A Shin
Buddhist Classic (all pages) (Required Text).*
- Mark
Unno, "Pure Land Buddhism of Honen and Shinran"
1-2 (CR21).*
- Mark
Unno, "The Nembutsu of No-Meaning and
the Problem of Genres in the Writings and Statements of Gutoku
Shinran," The Pure Land 10-11
(12/1994) 1-9 (CR22).*
- Mark
Unno, "The Nembutsu as the Path of the
Sudden Teaching," unpublished paper presented at the 7th IASBS
Conference, 1-7 (CR23).
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
- Shinmon
Aoki, Coffinman.*
Week
9,
11/21: Research Assignments
Week 10,
11/28: Concluding Lecture/Discussion Final Paper due in class.
- Student
presentations and concluding discussion.
Additional
Bibliography
for REL540 Graduate-Level Credit
- Amstutz,
Galen. Interpreting Amida
: history and Orientalism in the study of Pure Land
Buddhism Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
- Andreasen,
Esben. Popular Buddhism in Japan:
Shin Buddhist religion & culture. Honolulu
: University of Hawaii Press, c1998.
- Bodiford,
William. Soto Zen in medieval Japan. Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, c1993.
- Buswell,
Robert, ed. Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, c1990.
- Faure, Bernard. The Rhetoric of Immediacy
: a cultural critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University
Press, 1991.
- _____. Visions of Power
: imagining medieval Japanese Buddhism; translated
from the French by Phyllis Brooks. Princeton, N.J.
: Princeton University Press, c1996
- Hansen,
Chad. A Daoist Theory of ChineseTthought
: a philosophical interpretation. New York
: Oxford University Press, 1992.
- Heisig,
James and Maraldo, John, eds.
Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, & the Question of
Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1995.
- Ketelaar,
James. Of Heretics and Martyrs in Meiji Japan: Buddhism and Its
Persecution. Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press, c1990.
- McRae, John. The Northern School
and the Formation of Early Chan Buddhism. Honolulu
: University of Hawaii Press, c1986.
- Meeks,
Lori. Lori Hokkeji and the
Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern
Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010).
- 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.
- Teiser,
Stephen. The Ghost Festival in Medieval China. Princeton,
N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988
- _____.
The Scripture on The Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in
Medieval Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu, HI :
University of Hawaii Press, c1994.
- Victoria,
Brian. Zen at War. New York: Weatherhill,
1998.