Una dinastía orgánica

Xulio Ríos <xulio.rios@hotmail.com>

Asunto: Una dinastía orgánica, en El País, para compartir

http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/06/13/opinion/1402669173_591737.html

China es un país de dinastías. Así se escribe su historia. Durante cientos de años estas han modulado su devenir. Incluso en la China republicana, no faltó quien pretendiera dar vida a un nuevo linaje. La China maoísta cortó de raíz los titubeos dinásticos. El propio Mao paralizaba su tren al paso de la montaña Tai donde rendían sacrificios los emperadores para evidenciar que el no haría lo mismo. Sus campañas contra las viejas costumbres y las viejas ideas pretendían construir un dique contra el retorno de aquel pasado que había conducido a China a la decrepitud. No obstante, en su actuar, también la mentalidad imperial acabó dejando su impronta en el propio Mao y su afán por el poder absoluto. Con menos proclamas, Deng Xiaoping sentó las bases de una institucionalización que ha permitido auspiciar cierto futuro a la primera dinastía orgánica de la historia: el PCCh. 

Saludos cordiales
Xulio Ríos

JOB - Religious Studies, Dartmouth College

From: Reiko Ohnuma

Dartmouth College Department of Religion invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level beginning Fall 2015 in the fields of Modern Religious Thought, and/or Religious Ethics, and/or Philosophy of Religion.  While the precise area of specialization is open, the successful candidate will be expected to have expertise in some area of modern religious thought, religious ethics, the philosophy of religion, and the related literatures in light of the intellectual, cultural, and social challenges posed by modernity, modernization, globalization, and post-modernity.  The successful candidate will also be expected to have competence in at least one religious tradition, in order to ground his or her work within the study of religion.  Finally, the successful candidate will be expected to teach a broad range of introductory, intermediate-level, and advanced courses within the fields of modern religious thought, religious ethics, and the philosophy of religion, while participating as well in the teaching of courses in the Department’s core curriculum, including an introduction to religion and a senior-level culminating experience.

Qualifications include a Ph.D., or near completion of the Ph.D., preferably awarded in a Department of Religion, plus demonstrated teaching abilities.  Salary is competitive with those at other research universities.  The successful candidate must be eligible to work in the U.S. prior to the start date of the position.

Please submit a letter of application (addressed to Professor Reiko Ohnuma, Search Committee Chair), a curriculum vitae, a statement describing current and planned research, a statement of teaching philosophy, transcripts, a writing sample, names and contact information of 3 references, and an e-mail address and phone number at which the candidate may be reached.  Evidence of teaching experience and expertise is also welcome.  Please submit materials through Interfolio (http://apply.interfolio.com/25234).  Review of applications will begin November 1, 2014, and continue until the position is filled.  Candidates whose applications are received by November 1, 2014, will be considered for a preliminary interview at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion.

Dartmouth College is an outstanding research institution, where significant start-up awards are provided to every junior faculty member, and faculty members are expected to be scholar-teachers of the highest caliber.  Dartmouth enrolls approximately 4300 undergraduates.  With an even distribution of male and female students and over a third of the undergraduate population from minority groups, Dartmouth is committed to diversity and invites applications from women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities.  Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Centro Cultural e Informativo de la Embajada del Japón

• Nuevas Miradas del Japón. Edición 2014
Jueves 18 de septiembre, 18:30 hs.
Conferencia “Taiko: de Japón a Sudamérica. Usos, historia y actualidad”, a cargo del Lic. Gastón San Cristóbal
Lugar: Centro Cultural e Informativo de la Embajada del Japón (CCIJ), Bouchard 547, Piso 15, CABA (Por favor, traer DNI para el ingreso)
Entrada libre y gratuita con inscripción previa a: centro-info@bn.mofa.go.jp (Datos requeridos: nombre y apellido y número de DNI)
Informes: (011) 4318-8240, centro-info@bn.mofa.go.jp
Organiza: CCIJ

• Ciclo de cine japonés en la Fundación Internacional Jorge L. Borges
Jueves 25 de septiembre,  15:00 hs.
Proyección de película “Brave Story”
Lugar: Fundación Internacional Jorge L. Borges, Anchorena 1660 esq. Juncal, CABA.
Entrada libre y gratuita
Informes: (011) 4822-8340/4940, borges.internacional@fibertel.com.ar

Organizan: CCIJ, FJ y Fundación Internacional Jorge L. Borges           

• Japón y Argentina integrados por el Arte 2014
Del lunes 8 al viernes 19 de septiembre.
Jornadas a pura cultura japonesa: conferencias, exposición, demostraciones y más
Lugar: Espacio Cultural de la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación, Adolfo Alsina 1935, CABA.
Entrada libre y gratuita.
Informes: (011) 4300-1182/7042, asocjaponesa@yahoo.com.ar
Organizan: CCIJ, Asociación Japonesa en Argentina y Espacio Cultural de la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Nación

•  2° Seminario Sudamericano de Kyudo (arquería japonesa)
Del jueves 25 al domingo 28 de septiembre, de 9:00 a 18:00 hs.
A cargo del Prof. Yoshihiko BUCHANAN y Prof. Tomio KATO
Lugar: Predio del Círculo de la Policía Federal, Av. Libertador 7801, CABA
Dirigida a practicantes avanzados e intermedios
Informes: kyudobuenosaires@gmail.com
Organiza: Asociación Argentina de Kyudo
Auspicia: CCIJ

•  Más actividades culturales
Incluyen las prácticas de ceremonia del té, conferencias y demostraciones de ikebana.

¡Los esperamos!
Saludos Cordiales.

La relación México-China

Estimados amigos e interesados en China y la relación México-China:

Por este medio nos permitimos informarles que Cassio Luiselli Fernández 
dictará una conferencia en el marco del Ciclo de Conferencias China-México 2015-1 del Cechimex titulada
"LOS DILEMAS AMBIENTALES DE CHINA".

El evento se llevará a cabo el miércoles 3 de septiembre a las 10 a.m. en el Aula Magna Jesús Silva Herzog, primer piso del Edificio Anexo de la
Facultad de Economía, Ciudad Universitaria UNAM. Para mayores informes al 56222195 y ver el mapa de ubicación en: http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex.

El Dr. Cassio Luiselli Fernández es Profesor Emérito del Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México y ha sido Embajador de México en Uruguay, Corea y Sudáfrica. Cuenta además con una amplia experiencia académica en temas vinculados con las relaciones internacionales, así como con un grupo de investigaciones y publicaciones sobre tópicos ambientales en China.

Adicionalmente les informamos:

1. Pueden acceder a anteriores eventos del Ciclo de Conferencias del Cechimex (presentaciones, podcast y video) en:      http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex/index.php/es/conferencias

2. Pueden acceder al libro presentado en la última conferencia -
        " La inversión exranjera directa de China en América Latina: 10 casos de estudio"
        en:      http://www.redalc-china.org/publicaciones.html.


3. También los invitamos a revisar el programa completo del Ciclo de Conferencias de este nuevo semestre, el
        cual se encuentra disponible en:
         http://www.economia.unam.mx/deschimex/cechimex/chmxExtras/documentos/actividades/2015-i/CONFERENCIAS_CH_MX_2015_1.pdf

Saludos, enrique dussel peters

Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters
         Profesor
        Posgrado en Economía

Coordinador
        Centro de Estudios China-México
        Facultad de Economía
         Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Visítanos en:
        
                  @Cechimex FE UNAM
                 @Cuadernos de trabajo del Cechimex FE UNAM
        
                  @Cechimex_UNAM

http://www.economia.unam.mx/cechimex/

http://dusselpeters.com

NEW BOOK Lay Buddhism and Spirituality

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the book announcement below. This is the fifth volume in the series Eastern Buddhist Voices which I edit. It completes the opening sequence of volumes in this series, with contents drawn from historic issues of the journal The Eastern Buddhist.

Note that the volume announced here contains an interesting early translation of the Teaching of Vimalakirti which had originally appeared in scattered sections.
(The introductory price mentioned below is valid for a short period only.)
Michael Pye
.................................................................................
Here is the announcement from Equinox Publications:

We are pleased to announce the publication of

Lay Buddhism and Spirituality. From Vimalakīrti to the Nenbutsu Masters
356pp, 16 figures

Edited by Michael Pye, Marburg University and Ōtani University, Kyōto


HB £60 / $99.95    (9781908049148)

PB £19.99 / $39.95  (9781908049155)

Receive 25% off the retail price quoting the code LBS when ordering from
<http://www.equinoxpub.com/> www.equinoxpub.com (valid until the end of
October 2014).

 Early issues of The Eastern Buddhist contain short translations from various
Buddhist texts, some of them quite important and all of considerable
interest. Since they are set unobtrusively between modern statements and
arguments about the nature of Buddhism, and in any case are difficult to
locate, they have often gone unnoticed by students. Assembled here is a
selection of those texts which have stood the test of time. Derived from
Sanskrit, Chinese and Japanese originals, they illustrate the importance of
lay spirituality for Japanese Buddhists, both in the nenbutsu tradition and
in the wider context of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Drawing them together into one
volume brings out the fact that these varied Buddhist traditions are
intricately related to each other. The result is an unusual and fascinating
reader which would grace many a course in Buddhist studies.

To see the table of contents and to order visit the book page:

https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=561
<https://www.equinoxpub.com/equinox/books/showbook.asp?bkid=561&keyword>
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The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter
Newsletter No. 34. 2014     August 25, 2014     New Articles Posted
Quick Links Home About Japan Focus Top 10 Articles RSS Feeds In This Issue   Yamamoto Yuzo  Infanticide Tsurumi Kazuko   New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata        Andrew DeWit  US Pacific Command, Climate Change and Collaborative Security	Greetings!   Andrew DeWit assesses the important role of the US Pacific Command in addressing climate crisis in the Pacific at a time when the US political system is stymied by political crisis. Decades after the Minamata mercury poisoning crisis ignited Japan's environmental movement, we present Tsurumi Kazuko's assessment, and Tom Gill's introduction providing an overview of the movement's historical and contemporary significance. Zeljko Cipris translates and introduces Yamamoto Yuzo's 1920 play "Infanticide", a classic that spoke then and speaks now to problems of poverty and labor.
Yamamoto Yuzo  Infanticide   Yamamoto Yuzo (1887 - 1974) was a playwright and novelist from Tochigi Prefecture who graduated from Tokyo University. He made his debut as a dramatist with Seimei no kanmuri (1920; tr. The Crown of Life, 1935). Yamamoto's literary work comprises a critical examination of the human condition based on the author's humanistic philosophy and revolutionary sympathies. Infanticide constitutes a poignant cri de coeur, yet leaves the solution to the underlying problem up to its audience.   Recommended citation: Yamamoto Yuzo, "Infanticide", translated and introduced by Zeljko Cipris, The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 34, No. 3, August 25, 2014.            Read more . . . Tsurumi Kazuko with an introduction by Tom Gill New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata Earlier in 2014, folklore scholar Ron Morse succeeded in publishing on-line The Adventure of Ideas: A Collection of papers on Patterns of Creativity and a Theory of Endogenous Development, a collection of English-language papers by Tsurumi Kazuko* (1918-2006), an innovative sociologist who was a professor at Sophia University for twenty years (1969-89). The book is available for free download. Tsurumi Kazuko was a member of one of Japan's premier intellectual dynasties. The granddaughter of Meiji/Taisho bureaucrat Goto Shinpei, and daughter of prewar liberal politician Tsurumi Yusuke, she was the sister of postwar philosopher-historian Tsurumi Shunsuke, and aunt of Tsurumi Taro, a professor of folklore at Waseda University. "New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata," dating from 1987,  draws on fieldwork conducted in Minamata, Kumamoto prefecture, between 1976 and 1983. The paper introduces three of the heroes of the movement to gain redress for the victims of Minamata Disease - mercury poisoning caused by contamination of the Shiranui Sea by the town's main employer, Chisso Corporation, a major chemical maker still very much in business today. The paper contains valuable source material on the Minamata redress movement, dramatized through three extraordinary personalities.     Recommended citation: Tsurumi Kazuko with an introduction by Tom Gill, "New Lives: Some Case Studies of Minamata", The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 34, No. 2, August 25, 2014.          Read more . . . Andrew DeWit         US Pacific Command, Climate Change and Collaborative Security While organizers mobilize across the globe for history's biggest climate march in New York on September 21, strikingly large numbers of Americans - and an even bigger share of their political representatives - remain quiet, doubtful or even in denial about climate change. But the US military, especially in the Pacific, is neither uncertain nor passive. The  US Pacific Command (PACOM) is  "not waiting on politics" in responding to climate change. Brigadier General Mark McLeod, former head of PACOM's Logistics, Engineering and Security Cooperation directorate describes why. He points out that 70 percent of global storms are in the Pacific and that climate change's impacts are already having military consequences. The US military is already a leader on climate-change mitigation through renewable energy and energy efficiency. The military's adaptation efforts are also instructive for civil society and may help curb climate-related geopolitical instability. Across the Pacific,  PACOM is focused on building resilience against climate change and creative networks of cooperation on humanitarian assistance and disaster response, or HADR. Recommended Citation: Andrew DeWit, "US Pacific Climate Change and Collaborative Security", The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 34, No. 1, August 25, 2014.        Read more . . .

Job Guide Weekly Report

 H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 18 August - 25 August

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 18 August 
2014 to 25 August 2014. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more 
information.



ANTHROPOLOGY

American Academy of Arts & Sciences - Visiting Scholars Program
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49275

Northwestern University - Postdoctoral Fellowships, Science in Human 
Culture Program
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49328

University of California - San Diego - Assistant Professor, Global 
Health
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49333



ART AND ART HISTORY

Bard Graduate Center - Modern and Contemporary Design History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49353

United States Studies Centre - Fellowships for Visiting Scholars, 
United States Studies Centre
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49317

University of British Columbia - Assistant Professor in the 
Architecture and Art of the Islamic World
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49340



ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES

University of California - San Diego - Assistant Professor, History 
of 19th-20th Century Japan
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49352



INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Macalester College - ASSOCIATE OR FULL PROFESSOR OF HISTORY
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49255

Yale-NUS College - Faculty Positions in European Intellectual History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49355



RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY

Texas A&M University - College Station - Open Rank Faculty Position 
in Africana Religions at Texas A&M University
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49338

Williams College - Assistant Professor in Religions of the Americas
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49318



NONE

Gustavus Adolphus College - Assistant Professor, 20th Century U.S. 
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49344

Queensborough Community College - Lecturer - History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49347

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NEW BOOK - Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyang Zhixu

Dear colleagues,

I expect that colleagues on this list might be interested to know of the
new publication below, if they do not already. Apologies for cross-posting.

Foulks McGuire, Beverley. Living Karma: The Religious Practices of Ouyi
Zhixu. Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhism. Columbia University Press,
2014. ISBN: 978-0-231-16802-1.

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16802-1/living-karma

Regards,

Michael Radich

Dr Michael Radich
Senior Lecturer, Religious Studies
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600, Wellington 6012, New Zealand

Office: Room 216, Hunter Building, Kelburn Parade
ph:(64 4) 463 9477
Fax: (64 4) 463 5065
michael.radich@vuw.ac.nz

NEW BOOK

"Places in Motion: The Fluid Identities of Temples, Images, and Pilgrims"

Colleagues,

I'm pleased to announce the publication of my book, Places in Motion:
The Fluid Identities of Temples, Images, and Pilgrims (OUP), which
should be of interest to the H-Buddhism community. Four of the chapters
deal explicitly with images and places in India, and I hope scholars in
the broader fields of Religious Studies and Comparative Religion will
also find it of interest.

It is available in both hardcover, ebook, and paperback.

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199359660.do

>From the back cover:

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of
religiously charged places. Focusing on several important shared and
contested pilgrimage places - Ground Zero and Devils Tower in the United
States, Ayodhya and Bodhgaya in India, Karbala in Iraq - he poses a
number of crucial questions. What and who has made these sites
important, and why? How are they shared, and how and why are they
contested? What is at stake in their contestation? How are the
particular identities of place and space established? How are individual
and collective identity intertwined with space and place? Challenging
long-accepted, clean divisions of the religious world, Kinnard explores
specific instances of the vibrant messiness of religious practice, the
multivocality of religious objects, the fluid and hybrid dynamics of
religious places, and the shifting and tangled identities of religious
actors. He contends that sacred space is a constructed idea: places are
not sacred in and of themselves, but are sacred because we make them
sacred. As such, they are in perpetual motion, transforming themselves
from moment to moment and generation to generation. Places in Motion
moves comfortably across and between a variety of historical and
cultural settings as well as academic disciplines, providing a deft and
sensitive approach to the topic of sacred places, with awareness of
political, economic, and social realities as these exist in relation to
questions of identity. It is a lively and much needed critical advance
in analytical reflections on sacred space and pilgrimage.

"Jacob Kinnard sets his sights on a place, and sits and watches that
place over time, observing shifts in light, the movements of people
cutting across the frame, and ultimately takes note of the ways people
gather together. These chapters are like long exposure photographs, with
the resulting image capturing the blurs of activity of many people for
many purposes over time. By seeing places in motion, Kinnard also puts
scholarship in motion. A rich take on space through time." - S. Brent
Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5 1/2 Objects
Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Preface: The Questions of Places
1. Place, Contestation, and the Complexities of Agency
2. Power Fallen from the Sky
3. The Polyvalent Padas of Vishnu and the Buddha
4. The Drama of Vishnu and the Buddha at Bodhgaya
5. Bodhgaya, UNESCO, and the Ambiguities of Preservation
6. The Power and the Politics of Emplacement
7. Public Space or Sacred Place?
8. Fences and Walls: A Not-So-Final Reflection On Preservations,
Prohibitions, and Places in Motion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Cheers,
Jacob

Jacob N. Kinnard
Professor of Comparative Religions
Director, M.A. Program
Iliff School of Theology
2323 East Iliff Avenue
Denver, CO 80211
303-765-3164
jkinnard@iliff.edu

WORKSHOP

A new research tool for the study of ancient Indian philosophical texts

Dear Colleagues,

as the conclusion of the European Research Council funded project Śāstravid: A new research tool for the study of ancient Indian philosophical texts (see www.sastravid.net) we will be holding a two-day workshop on Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, on 4th and 5th September 2014. I include the programme below. There is no charge for attendance, but please email Jan Westerhoff at jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk if you are planning to come.

We look forward to seeing many of you there.

Very best wishes

Jan Westerhoff

Workshop on Buddhist Studies and Digital Humanities

Lady Margaret Hall

University of Oxford

4-5th September 2014

Programme

Thursday, 4 Sept

11.00 Tea

11.30-12.30 David Gold (Bridgeton Research): Śastravid: A new research tool for the study of Indian philosophical texts

13.00-14.00 Lunch for speakers

14.00-15.00 Birgit Kellner (Heidelberg University): The SARIT Project: Enriching Digital Text Collections in Indology

15.00-16.00 Andrew Ollett (Columbia University): Sarit-prasāraṇam: Developing SARIT beyond “Search and Retrieval”.

16.00-16.30 Tea

16.30-17.30 Nathan Hill (SOAS): Using an annotated corpus to facilitate the philological study of Tibetan texts

19.00 Dinner for speakers

Friday, 5 Sept

10.00-11.00 Jack Petranker/Ligeia Lugli (Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages): Thinking like a translator: the Buddhist Translators Workbench

11.00-11.30 Tea

11.30-12.30 Charles Muller (Tokyo University): Strategies for Project Development, Management, and Sustainability: The Example of the DDB and CJKV-E Dictionaries.

13.00-14.00 Lunch for speakers

14.00-15.00 Paul Hackett (Columbia University/American Institute of Buddhist Studies): Extending Buddhist Canonical Research: New Data and New Approaches

15.00-16.00 Yigal Bronner (Hebrew University): A Prosopographical Database for Sanskrit Works in the Early Modern Era (and Beyond): The Appayya Dīkṣita Project, Phase 3

16.00-16.30 Tea

16.30-17.30 Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo): Technical Possibilities of Digital Research Environments for Buddhist Studies

19.00 Dinner for speakers

**************************
JC Westerhoff
Lady Margaret Hall
University of Oxford
Norham Gardens
Oxford OX2 6QA
United Kingdom

jan.westerhoff@lmh.ox.ac.uk
www.janwesterhoff.net

REAL  -  Red Argentino-Americana para el Liderazgo,

junto a  CEA  -  Centro de Estudios Argentinos

y  FAPEDEC  -  Fundación Argentina para el Desarrollo

de la Educación y la Cultura

tienen el agrado de invitar a Ud. al Seminario:

"EL DIÁLOGO INTERRELIGIOSO POR LA PAZ Y LA RECONCILIACIÓN"

(Programa completo del evento en adjunto)

Miércoles 27 de Agosto de 2014, de  17:00  a  19:30 hrs.

Salón Dorado - Casa de la Cultura de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Avenida de Mayo 575  -  Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Actividad no arancelada  –  Capacidad limitada

R.S.V.P.:  info@argentinareal.org

(Favor enviar email indicando nombre, apellido y DNI)

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- Building Peace on Mindanao in the Philippines

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Dear list members, The Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and AABS Victoria are holding a workshop on East/West dialogues. The various papers in the workshop examine the movement of ideas across cultures, specifically through social theory, philosophy and religion. There will be several papers on Buddhism. The workshop will be held on September 5 at Deakin City Centre, Level 3, 550 Bourke St, Melbourne. To find out more about the event and to register please visit the website. The event is free, however, those interested need to register for catering purposes. Please contact Vince Marotta (vince.marotta@deakin.edu.au) or Leesa Davis (leesa.davis@deakin.edu.au) if you have any queries. Kind regards, AABS Executive   Gold leaf covered schist reliquary in the form of a stupa.  Kusana period, North Western India. National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan. Copyright: Huntington, John C. and Susan L.Huntington Archive

NEW BOOK

The Dawn of Abhidharma, by Anālayo
Hamburg University Press, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies
Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series 2
Published August 2014


This book is a companion to Bhikkhu Anālayo’s previous study of the
Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal. In the present book he turns to
another important aspect in the development of Buddhist thought: the
beginnings of the Abhidharma. Anālayo shows that the two main modes
generally held in academic circles to explain the arising of the
Abhidharma – the use of lists (mātrḳā) and the question-and-answer
format – are formal elements that in themselves are not characteristic
of Abhidharma thought. Going beyond the notion that the coming into
being of the Abhidharma can be located in such formal aspects, he shows
how the attempt to provide a comprehensive map of the teachings
gradually led to the arising of new terminology and new ideas. He
identifies the notion of the supramundane path as an instance where
fully fledged Abhidharma thought manifests in the discourses. Anālayo
concludes that what characterizes the Abhidharma is not the mere use of
dry lists and summaries, but rather a mode of thought that has gone
further (abhi-) than the Dharma taught in the early discourses in general.

For more information please see:

 http://blogs.sub.uni-hamburg.de/hup/reihen/hamburg-buddhist-studies/

Prof. Dr. Michael Zimmermann
Numata Center for Buddhist Studies
Universität Hamburg
Alsterterrasse 1
D-20354 Hamburg
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The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter
Newsletter No. 33. 2014     August 18, 2014     New Articles Posted
Quick Links Home About Japan Focus Top 10 Articles RSS Feeds In This Issue   Noam Chomsky How Many Minutes to Midnight? On the Nuclear Era and Armageddon Mel Gurtov    Time for the U.S. to Engage North Korea  Gavan McCormack & Urashima Etsuko Okinawa's "Darkest Year" Rick Baldoz "Comrade Carlos Bulosan": U.S. State Surveillance And the Cold War Suppression of Filipino Radicals	Greetings!     We heard you! Many thanks to the 250 readers who participated in our survey... expect to find changes in the Journal & Newsletter in the coming weeks. In this issue Noam Chomsky reviews the seven decades of the nuclear era and the continued high risk of Armageddon. Mel Gurtov examines the possibilities and importance of reopening negotiations with North Korea toward a settlement not only of nuclear issues but an end to the long war in Korea. The current crisis in Okinawa, reaching fever pitch as Japan moves aggressively to build a new base at Henoko in the face of overwhelming Okinawan opposition, is chronicled by McCormack and Urashima Etsuko. Rick Baldoz chronicles the FBI's long campaign to suppress Philippine radicals in the US through the case of writer Carlos Bulosan.
Noam Chomsky How Many Minutes to Midnight? On the Nuclear Era and Armageddon        If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history of homo sapiens, they might well break their calendar into two eras: BNW (before nuclear weapons) and NWE, the nuclear weapons era. The latter era opened on August 6 1945, the first day of the countdown to what may be the inglorious end of this strange species, which attained the intelligence to discover effective means to destroy itself, but not the moral and intellectual capacity to control their worst instincts.   This article reflects on the "auspicious opening days" of the NWE, a period when the U.S. was overwhelmingly powerful and enjoyed remarkable security. The author provides an incisive historical retrospective that takes us through the missile threats of the Cold War, as well as the Clinton and Bush Doctrines of the post-Cold War period, to explain why the prospect of nuclear disarmament grows fainter. As we now enter the  70th year of the NWE, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. The longer we tempt fate, the less likely it is that we can hope for divine intervention to perpetuate the miracle.       Read more . . . Mel Gurtov Time for the U.S. to Engage North Korea  In recent weeks, North Korea has sent the usual mix of signals about its strategic intentions on the Korean peninsula. In July it carried out a ballistic missile test in the East Sea (Sea of Japan), in violation of UN resolutions.But it's not all aggression. Perhaps in response to Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Seoul in early July, in defiance of presumed protocol that would have called for him to visit Pyongyang first, North Korea called on the South to join it in renewed efforts at national reunification.  The so-called "North Korea nuclear issue," which in fact involves the interests of several countries, is security and strategic stability on the Korean peninsula. This article outlines multiple powerful reasons for the United States to embrace engagement with North Korea, and explains why chances for this bilateral engagement would be greatest if the talks were embedded in a multilateral framework that builds on the Six-Party Talks of the past including China, Russia and South Korea.        Read more . . . Gavan McCormack and Urashima Etsuko         Okinawa's "Darkest Year" As Japan burned in the mid-summer heat of 2014, the long-running "Okinawa problem" entered a critical, perhaps decisive, phase. On the question of whether to build or not to build a major new military base for the US Marines in the waters off Northern Okinawa, Tokyo (backed by Washington) confronts Okinawa. The stakes and the level of commitment are high and there is no sign to be seen of any readiness to compromise or submit. It is impossible to contemplate events in Okinawa without deep foreboding. It is, however, also difficult not to feel inspired by the sense of justice, truth, and determination conveyed by the Okinawan civil society forces that confront the mobilized resources of the Japanese national state and the United States. Here we present Gavan McCormack's analysis of the forces and issues at stake, accompanied by a translation of the most recent short essay by the chronicler of the resistance, local writer, activist and poet, Urashima Etsuko.            Read more . . .  Rick Baldoz         "Comrade Carlos Bulosan": U.S. State Surveillance And the Cold War Suppression of Filipino Radicals Throughout the Cold War period, American authorities believed that a worldwide communist conspiracy was at the root of political unrest in the Philippines, a former U.S. colony, and that Filipino labor activists in the United States communicated with insurgents in the Philippines through an elaborate spy ring that linked left-wing cadres across the globe. According to the FBI, radicals like Carlos Bulosan transmitted secret dispatches to Ho Chi Minh in Saigon, who then passed them on to Madame Curie in Paris, which ultimately enabled professors at the University of Philippines to serve as the intellectual ringleaders of the local communist movement.  While it is hard to know if this sophisticated communication network really existed, it is clear that American officials were deeply concerned about the threat of popular insurgency in the Philippines and the role played by U.S.-based Filipinos in fomenting revolutionary struggle across the globe. This article discusses the far-reaching campaign to root out Filipino radicals during the Cold War, and compares this phenomenon to the present-day U.S. political regime. The author historicizes contemporary debates about state surveillance and social control by tracing the use of "national security," a term that has provided a pretext for the casting of indiscriminate dragnets that amass personal information about citizens and legal residents with almost no independent oversight. Consequently, government officials have been granted wide latitude to assail critics whose political beliefs are capriciously labeled as a threat to U.S.  Read more . . .