Table of Contents
- JOURNAL> Acta Koreana
- IN MEMORIUM> Passing of Professor Akira Yuyama
- QUERY> Bibliographic resources on teaching Buddhist Studies
- WORKSHOP> On Tannishō Commentarial Materials
- NEW BOOK > The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet
- CORRECTION> IN MEMORIUM --> IN MEMORIAM (Passing of Professor Akira Yuyama)
JOURNAL> Acta Koreana
by A. Charles Muller
Academia Koreana, the Korean studies research institute of Keimyung
University, is pleased to announce the publication of Acta Koreana, Vol.
22, No. 2. All the articles in this issue and all previous issues of the
journal are accessible on our website: www.actakoreana.org. If you are having trouble
accessing articles or past issues, please contact our office at acta@kmu.ac.kr. We are
currently migrating our digital issues to a new platform. During this process,
all the issues of Acta Koreana also can be found through both earticle
and ProQuest.
Earticle: www.earticle.net
ProQuest: www.proquest.com
Janet Yoon-sun
Lee
Acta Koreana Editorial
Committee
ACTA
KOREANA Vol. 22, No. 2 (December 2019)
Theme Issue Articles: Good and
Evil in Korean Philosophy, Religion, and Spirituality
The Origins of Good and Evil and
the Challenge of Theodicy in the Buddhist Tradition
ROBERT E. BUSWELL JR.
“Middle Way” Approach on Buddhist
Ethics: Wŏnhyo on the Doctrinal Problem of the Buddha-nature and the Icchantika
LEE SUMI
Yi T’oegye on Transcending the
Problem of Evil: A Neo-Confucian and Interreligious Perspective
EDWARD Y. J. CHUNG
Tasŏk Yu Yŏngmo on God as
Nothingness
HALLA KIM
The Korean Dilemma: Assuming
Perfectibility but Recognizing Moral Frailty
DON BAKER
General Articles
Creating Legitimacy through Media
Discourse: German Press Reporting on the Japanese Colonisation of Korea, 1905–1910
MUN SOOHYUN
The Text-Mining of Munhwa
(Culture): The Case of a Popular Magazine in 1930s Korea
LEE JAE-YON and KIM HYUNJOO
The Prosody of Working and the
Narrative of Martyrdom: Daily Life and Death in North Korean Literature during
the Great Famine and the Early Military-First Age (1994–2002)
KIM SUNGHEE
Translation
Imjin namhaeng illok 壬辰南行日錄
(Daily Record of a Journey South in 1592)
Translated by MICHAEL C. E. FINCH
Book Reviews
Rewriting Revolution: Women,
Sexuality, and Memory in North Korean Fiction
DAFNA ZUR
A Place to Live: A New
Translation of Yi Chung-hwan’s T’aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing
Settlements
TOMMY TRAN
From the Mountains to the
Cities: A History of Buddhist Propagation in Modern Korea
URI KAPLAN
Dust and Other Stories
CHOE HYONHUI
Scenes from the Enlightenment: A
Novel of Manners
BRUCE FULTON
IN MEMORIUM> Passing of Professor Akira Yuyama
by Paul Harrison
Dear colleaguesAs 2019 draws to a close, it is my painful duty to inform you, some time after the fact, that Professor Akira Yuyama left this world earlier this year. On returning from a conference in Jerusalem last weekend I received a letter from Professor Yuyama’s widow with permission to make a public announcement of this sad event. Professor Yuyama died on Friday, July 26, at the age of 85, in the very same week that Professor Seishi Karashima left us. Buddhist Studies in Japan thus suffered unawares a double loss, a loss which is shared and mourned by the international scholarly community as a whole.
Professor Yuyama’s contributions to our field were prodigious, and he will long be remembered for his unparalleled command of the Buddhist tradition, his astonishing bibliographical knowledge, the wide range of his interests, his openness and his vision. The value of his many works endures. For example, I have within the last year had occasion to consult, with profit, his study of the Ratnaguṇasaṃcayagāthā, his Systematische Übersicht über die buddhistische Sanskrit-Literatur (Erster Teil: Vinaya-Texte), his Bibliography of Sanskrit Texts of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra, and his English translation, authored jointly with Dr Tsugunari Kubo, of Kumārajīva’s Chinese rendition of the same text. Professor Yuyama’s contributions to our field, however, go well beyond the work which he himself produced. Many of us still treasure our memories of the years when he was Director of the Reiyūkai Library, during which he promoted our careers unstintingly with invitations to spend time in Tokyo as Visiting Research Fellows and to publish in the various series which he founded and dignified with the lengthy Latin titles to which he was inclined, being the keen linguist that he was. I myself enjoyed two stays at the Library in my younger years, publishing three books under its imprint, and fondly recall Professor Yuyama’s warm hospitality, his sage advice, his congenial humor, and his sartorial elegance. He was an important formative influence for me as I set out on my career, and we remained good friends. I know many of us will have similar stories to tell. The Reiyūkai Library itself was amazing, a tribute to its founder’s bibliographical reach and love of learning, and a mecca for scholars visiting Tokyo. It still exists, in its new location, as the library of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies, an institution which itself was to a significant degree the product of Professor Yuyama’s vision, even though he did not get the chance to oversee its realization. I was there as a visiting professor in summer this year, and as I moved about that massive collection I still had a strong sense of its founder’s spirit. As for Professor Yuyama, he went on to work at the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Sōka University, where, with Professor Yūichi Kajiyama and others, he helped shape that institution in its early years, eventually passing the baton to Professor Seishi Karashima, who built an intellectual powerhouse on the foundations laid down by his senior colleagues.
In Akira Yuyama I have lost an esteemed senpai—we both studied under Jan Willem de Jong—a valuable mentor and a good friend, while the world of Buddhist Studies has lost one of its most prodigious and far-sighted talents. With profound gratitude for the part Professor Yuyama played in my life, and deep sadness at his passing, I send my condolences to his widow, Mrs Hiroko Yuyama, and to other members of his family.
Paul Harrison
George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies
Stanford University
QUERY> Bibliographic resources on teaching Buddhist Studies
by Frances Garrett
Dear colleagues,I'm teaching a graduate course this coming winter semester on Buddhist Studies pedagogy. Could I ask whether you know of resources on this topic (or cognate topics) that would be useful to add to the list below?
Many thanks!
Frances Garrett
University of Toronto
Teaching Buddhism,
General
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S. C. (2004). "Conceptions and Misconceptions about “Western Buddhism”:
Issues and Approaches for the Classroom." Teaching Theology &
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L. O. (1995). "Unspoken Paradigms: Meanderings through the Metaphors of a
Field." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
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V. S., et al., Eds. (2002). Teaching Buddhism in the West: From the Wheel to
the Web, Psychology Press.
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J. R. (2013). "Bridging the “Great Divide” in Undergraduate Religion: An
Experiment in Faculty/Student Collaboration." Teaching Theology &
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Understanding and Presenting the Traditions
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D. (1998). Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West.
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F. E. (2004). "Teaching Buddhism in the Postmodern University:
Understanding, Critique, Evaluation." Teaching Theology & Religion
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Place-based Learning
and Study Abroad, Focused on Buddhism
Mitchell,
K. (2015). "The Immersion Experience: Lessons from Study Abroad in
Religion." Teaching Theology & Religion 18(1).
Oldstone‐Moore,
J. (2009). "Sustained Experiential Learning: Modified Monasticism and
Pilgrimage." Teaching Theology & Religion 12(2).
Experiential Education
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G. W. (2004). "Meditation and Masks, Drums and Dramas Experiential and
Participatory Exercises in the Comparative Religions Classroom." Teaching
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Garrett,
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Contemplative Pedagogy
Coburn,
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Questions." Teaching Theology & Religion 14(2).
Fisher,
K. M. (2017). "Look Before You Leap: Reconsidering Contemplative
Pedagogy." Teaching Theology & Religion 20(1).
Grace,
F. (2011). "Learning as a Path, Not a Goal: Contemplative Pedagogy – Its
Principles and Practices." Teaching Theology & Religion 14(2).
Simmer‐Brown,
J. and F. Grace, Eds. (2011). Meditation and the Classroom: Contemplative
Pedagogy for Religious Studies. Albany, SUNY
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World Religions and
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WORKSHOP> On Tannishō Commentarial Materials
by Tessa Machida
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in
Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on
critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core
text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious
text in postwar Japan. 2020 will be the fourth year in this five-year project
that meets twice each year: we will meet in Berkeley from February 28
to March 1 and in Kyoto at Ryūkoku University from June 26 to
28. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials
produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at
producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which
this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of
essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and
preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period,
the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jukoku (1740), Jinrei (1808), and Ryōshō
(1841) will be examined. For the modern period, works by Andō Shūichi (1909),
Chikazumi Jōkan (1930), and Soga Ryōjin (1947) will be the major concern. And
for the postwar/postmodern period, due to the sheer volume of publications
(over 300 titles), reading choices will be selected at a later date in
consultation with participants.Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be in primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.
Dates: Exact dates will vary from year to year based on academic calendars, but for 2020 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 28th of February to the 1st of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ryūkoku University from the 26th to the 28th of June.
Cost: There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project.
Participation Requirements: Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is acceptable.
Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply to register for either or both of the workshops for 2020, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by the end of January 2020. Applications are by email only, and application deadlines will remain as end-January in subsequent years as well. Requests for a travel fellowship money should be included in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from and if you plan to attend one or both meetings that year. Questions about the content of the workshop may be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu. Communication regarding the Kyoto meeting may be sent to The Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryūkoku University at rcwbc.office@gmail.com.
NEW BOOK > The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist Discourse in Tibet
by Michael Sheehy
Dear Colleagues:We are thrilled to announce a multi-author collaborative book on the zhentong philosophy of emptiness in Tibetan Buddhism, co-edited by Klaus-Dieter Mathes (Vienna University) and myself. We hope that many of you will use it in your undergraduate and graduate classrooms.
The Other Emptiness: Rethinking the Zhentong Buddhist
Discourse in Tibet
State University of New York (SUNY) Press
December 2019
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Philosophical Grounds and Literary
History of Zhentong
Klaus-Dieter Mathes and Michael R. Sheehy
1. *Bodhigarbha: Preliminary Notes on an Early
Dzokchen Family of Buddha-Nature Concepts
David Higgins
2. On the Inclusion of Chomden Rikpai Raldri in
Transmission Lineages of Zhentong
Tsering Wangchuk
3. The Dharma of the Perfect Eon: Dolpopa Sherab
Gyaltsen’s Hermeneutics of Time and the Jonang Doxography of Zhentong
Madhyamaka
Michael R. Sheehy
4. Buddha-Nature in Garungpa Lhai
Gyaltsen’s Lamp That Illuminates the Expanse of Reality and among
Tibetan Intellectuals
Dorje Nyingcha
5. Zhentong Views in the Karma Kagyu Order
Klaus-Dieter Mathes
6. Buddha-Nature: “Natural Awareness Endowed with
Buddha Qualities” as Expounded by Zhamar Kacho Wangpo
Martina Draszczyk
7. “There Are No Dharmas Apart from the Dharma-Sphere”:
Shakya Chokden’s Interpretation of the Dharma-Sphere
Yaroslav Komarovski
8. Tāranātha’s Twenty-One Differences with
Regard to the Profound Meaning: Comparing the Views of the Two Zhentong Masters
Dolpopa and Shakya Chokden
Klaus-Dieter Mathes
9. Zhentong Traces in the Nyingma Tradition: Two
Texts from Mindroling
Matthew T. Kapstein
10. Zhentong as Yogācāra: Mipam’s Madhyamaka Synthesis
Douglas Duckworth
11. Where Buddhas and Siddhas Meet: Mipam’s
Yuganaddhavāda Philosophy
Dorji Wangchuk
12. Along the Middle Path in the Quest for Wisdom:
The Great Madhyamaka in Rime Discourses
Marc-Henri Deroche
13. The Zhentong Lion Roars: Dzamtang Khenpo Lodro
Drakpa and the Jonang Scholastic Renaissance
Michael R. Sheehy
Contributors
Index
The book is available to order via SUNY and Amazon. *The introduction is
available to download on the SUNY book webpage.
Michael Sheehy
University of Virginia
CORRECTION> IN MEMORIUM --> IN MEMORIAM (Passing of Professor Akira Yuyama)
by A. Charles Muller
Dear Colleagues,Our apologies to Paul Harrison for mistakenly editing his post title to an incorrect spelling of "Memoriam".
Regards,
The Editors
