Course Reader REL 444/544 Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Fall
2015
Introductory background material
for those without coursework in Buddhism or Japanese Religion
- Peter Harvey, An Introduction
to Buddhism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 9-26.
- Robert A. F. Thurman, trans., The
Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti (University
Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987) 56-63, 73-77.
- Hayao Kawai, "Japanese Mythology:
Balancing the Gods," in his Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan
(Daimon, 1995) 67-97.
Matrix of
Japanese society and religion leading up to the Kamakura Period
- Toshio Kuroda, "Shinto in the
History of Japanese Religion," tr. by James Dobbins and Suzanne Gay, Journal
of Japanese Studies 7:1 (Winter 1981), 1-21.
- Joseph Kitagawa, "Chapter 6.
The Shadow and the Sun: A Glimpse of the Fujiwara and the Imperial
Families in Japan," in his On Understanding Japanese Religion
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), 98-116.
- William LaFleur, "Chapter 2 In and out of the Rokudō," in his Karma of Words-Buddhism
and the Literary Arts in Medieval Japan (Berkeley :
University of California Press, 1983) 26-59.
Matrix of
Japanese society and the development of Buddhism into the Kamakura Period
- Helen Craig McCullough, tr. The Tale of the Heike (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1988), 1-6, 17-19, 23-37.
- Robert E. Morrell, "Tendai's Jien as Buddhist
Priest," Early Kamakura Buddhism-A Minority Report, 23-43.
- Jeffrey P. Mass, "The
Emergence of the Kamakura Bakufu [Military
Government]" in Medieval Japan-Essays in Institutional History,
ed. John W. Hall and Jeffrey P. Mass (Stanford: Stanford University
Press), 127-156.
- Kazuo OSUMI, ÒBuddhism in the
Kamakura Period,Ó in The Cambridge History of Japan, Vol 3 Medieval Japan, gen. ed. Kozo YAMAMURA (NY: Cambridge
University Press), 544-563.
The Zen Buddhism of Dōgen
- Mark Unno,
ÒPhilosophical Terms in the Zen Buddhist Thought of Dōgen.Ó
- Norman Waddell
& Masao Abe, tr. "Shōbōgenzō Genjōkōan," by Dōgen Kigen, The Eastern Buddhist 5:2 (10/1972),
129-140.
- Mark Unno,
ÒCommentary, Fascicle 30: Gyōji Part II (ge),Ó
DōgenÕs Shushōgi
(Boston: Wisdom), forthcoming, 1-3.
- Kōshō Uchiyama, Refining Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment,
trans. Tom Wright (New York: Weatherhill, 1983)
vii-xiv, 3-19.
- Steven Heine, The
Zen Poetry of Dogen (Boston: Tuttle, 1997),
1-34.
- Barbara Ruch, "The Other Side of Culture in Medieval
Japan," in The Cambridge History of Japan - Volume 3 Medieval
Japan, 500-511.
The Shingon Buddhist practice of Myōe
- Mark Unno, ÒRecommending Faith in the Sand of the
Mantra of Light: Myōe KōbenÕs
Kōmyō Shingon
Dosha Kanjinki,Ó in Re-Visioning Kamakura Buddhism, ed.
Richard Payne (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1998), 167-218.
- Mark Unno, Shingon Refractions: Myōe and the Mantra of Light (Boston: Wisdom,
2004), 111-145.
The Shin Buddhism of Shinran
- Mark Unno, ÒKey
Terms – Pure Land Buddhism and the Philosophy of Hōnen and Shinran.Ó
- 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.
Further readings on
the background of women and gender in Buddhism and in the context of the
Kamakura Period
- Rita Gross, Buddhism after Patriarchy (Albany:
SUNY Press, 1990), 29-54.
- Lori
Meeks, Hokkeji and the Reemergence
of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan (Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press, 2010) 250-300.