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- SYMPOSIUM> Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Northern Vietnam, Rutgers University, 23–24 September 2016
- NEW BOOK> Bhikkhu Anālayo's Ekottarika-āgama Studies
- JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 29 August - 5 September
- NEW BOOK> The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya by Charles Goodman
SYMPOSIUM> Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Northern Vietnam, Rutgers University, 23–24 September 2016
by DC Lammerts
Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Northern Vietnam
September 23–24, 2016
Rutgers University, Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center Lecture Hall
169 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
We are happy to announce an upcoming international and interdisciplinary symposium on Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Northern Vietnam, to be held from 23–24 September, 2016. Catalyzed by the recent digitization of two textual collections held at the Thắng Nghiêm and Phổ Nhân Buddhist Temples in northern Vietnam, we propose to investigate the interaction of textual practices, publishing, and the transmission of literacy in interaction with Buddhism and the Buddhist institution. The texts in these collections are written in both Literary Chinese and vernacular Vietnamese, and include both classical sutras with cosmopolitan distribution, as well as region-specific texts, produced and circulated on a local level.
It has long been recognized that Buddhism played a varying but consistently vital role in the transmission of literate knowledge throughout East and Southeast Asia. By examining these collections of diverse but otherwise mundane textual artifacts, we seek to understand the kinds of literacy that prevailed in these types of religious and non-courtly settings, as well as to investigate how networks of publishing, text-production, and the bartering of knowledge were constructed and maintained across Buddhist monastic communities. Although our focus is on the Vietnamese context, our investigation is conducted in explicit comparison with analogous contexts in China, Korea, and Japan; and we invite scholars and students of all fields and areas of study interested in issues of Buddhism and Literacy, the transmission of literate knowledge, and the interaction of cosmopolitan and vernacular forms of textual culture, to attend our symposium.
Registration details, schedule, and abstracts may be accessed via: https://www.sas.rutgers.edu/cms/asian/events/#sym-buddhist-literacy-vietnam
Rutgers University, Alexander Library
Scholarly Communication Center Lecture Hall
169 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
We are happy to announce an upcoming international and interdisciplinary symposium on Buddhist Literacy in Early Modern Northern Vietnam, to be held from 23–24 September, 2016. Catalyzed by the recent digitization of two textual collections held at the Thắng Nghiêm and Phổ Nhân Buddhist Temples in northern Vietnam, we propose to investigate the interaction of textual practices, publishing, and the transmission of literacy in interaction with Buddhism and the Buddhist institution. The texts in these collections are written in both Literary Chinese and vernacular Vietnamese, and include both classical sutras with cosmopolitan distribution, as well as region-specific texts, produced and circulated on a local level.
It has long been recognized that Buddhism played a varying but consistently vital role in the transmission of literate knowledge throughout East and Southeast Asia. By examining these collections of diverse but otherwise mundane textual artifacts, we seek to understand the kinds of literacy that prevailed in these types of religious and non-courtly settings, as well as to investigate how networks of publishing, text-production, and the bartering of knowledge were constructed and maintained across Buddhist monastic communities. Although our focus is on the Vietnamese context, our investigation is conducted in explicit comparison with analogous contexts in China, Korea, and Japan; and we invite scholars and students of all fields and areas of study interested in issues of Buddhism and Literacy, the transmission of literate knowledge, and the interaction of cosmopolitan and vernacular forms of textual culture, to attend our symposium.
Registration details, schedule, and abstracts may be accessed via: https://www.sas.rutgers.edu/cms/asian/events/#sym-buddhist-literacy-vietnam
DC Lammerts
Assistant Professor
Buddhist and Southeast Asian Studies
Department of Religion
Rutgers University
NEW BOOK> Bhikkhu Anālayo's Ekottarika-āgama Studies
by Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Dear Colleagues,the Āgama Research Group (ARG) at the Department of Buddhist Studies of the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts is happy to announce the publication of a new book, Bhikkhu Anālayo’s Ekottarika-āgama Studies:
Anālayo, Ekottarika-āgama Studies (Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts Research Series, 4), Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation, 2016.
For further details kindly refer to the ARG publications page:
http://agamaresearch.dila.edu.tw/publications
With best wishes,
Dhammadinnā
Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Āgama Research Group Director
Department of Buddhist Studies
Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts, Taiwan
http://agamaresearch.dila.edu.tw
JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 29 August - 5 September
by Charles DiSimone
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from29 August 2016 to 5 September 2016. 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. To contact the Job Guide,
write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ANTHROPOLOGY
Harvard Divinity School - Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53458
Michigan State University - Assistant Professor - Performing Arts in
South Asia and/or the Disaspora
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53423
University of Wisconsin-Madison - TRANSASIA/TRANSDISCIPLINARY
PROFESSOR, OPEN-RANK, SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53417
Yale-NUS College - Assistant Professor, Cultural or Social
Anthropology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53462
ART AND ART HISTORY
Bard Graduate Center - Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53446
Harvard Divinity School - Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53458
History Faculty, University of Oxford - Terra Foundation for American
Arts Visiting Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53452
Valparaiso University - Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53450
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Harvard Divinity School - Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53458
University of Hawaii - Manoa - Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53418
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Bard Graduate Center - Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53446
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Harvard Divinity School - Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53458
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
American Antiquarian Society - 2017-18 Hench Post-Dissertation
Fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53443
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Harvard Divinity School - Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53458
University of Hawaii - Manoa - Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53418
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Harvard Divinity School - Research Associate and Visiting Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53458
Leibniz Institute of European History - Research fellowships for
international postdocs
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53429
Michigan State University - Assistant Professor - Performing Arts in
South Asia and/or the Disaspora
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53423
Oberlin College - Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions and
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53447
NONE
Tufts University - Cyber Security and Policy Bridge Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53412
Wheaton College - Assistant Professor, Asian History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53433
wikiHow - content creators
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53461
NEW BOOK> The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the Śikṣā-samuccaya by Charles Goodman
by Charles DiSimone
Charles Goodman, The Training Anthology of Śāntideva: A Translation of the
Śikṣā-samuccaya. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 433pp.
ISBN 978-0-99391356.The Training Anthology—or Śikṣā-samuccaya—is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Śāntideva. Best known for his philosophical poem, the Bodhicaryāvatāra, Śāntideva has been a vital source of spiritual guidance and literary inspiration to Tibetan teachers and students throughout the history of Tibetan Buddhism. Charles Goodman offers a translation of this major work of religious literature, in which Śāntideva has extracted, from the vast ocean of the Buddha's teachings, a large number of passages of exceptional value, either for their practical relevance, philosophical illumination, or aesthetic beauty. The Training Anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the Mahāyāna path to Awakening and gives scholars an invaluable window into the religious doctrines, ethical commitments, and everyday life of Buddhist monks in India during the first millennium CE.
Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations vii
The Training Anthology in Its Cultural and Religious Contexts ix
Śāntideva's Life: History and Legends ix
The Great Journey to Awakening xii
The Indian Buddhist Monastery as a Social Institution xviii
The Cultural World of Śāntideva: Some Major Features xxiii
The Structure of the Training Anthology xxvii
The Supreme Worship xxviii
The Training Anthology Today xxx
The Philosophy of the Training Anthology xxxv
Reason, Emotion, and Rhetoric xxxv
Ethical Theory xxxvii
Lexical Priority of Values xlviii
Plants, Animals, and the Environment l
Theory of Well- Being lii
No- Self, Causation, and Emptiness liv
Notes on the Translation lix
Root Verses of the Training Anthology lxxiii
1. The Perfection of Generosity 1
2. Upholding the Holy Dharma 38
3. Protecting the Dharma Teacher and So On 49
4. Giving Up What Is Harmful 63
5. Giving Up What Is Harmful through the Perfection of Moral Discipline 100
6. Protecting the Body 116
7. Protecting Possessions and Goodness 139
8. Clearing Away Vile Actions 155
9. The Perfection of Patient Endurance 177
10. The Perfection of Perseverance 186
11. Praise of the Wilderness 190
12. Preparing the Mind 199
13. The Applications of Mindfulness 222
14. Purifying the Body 233
15. Purifying Possessions and Goodness 255
16. The Ritual of Good Conduct 261
17. Benefits of Reverential Actions 279
18. Recollection of the Three Jewels 294
19. Enhancing Goodness 323
Appendix A: Training Anthology Ch. 18, B. 344–347, Tibetan Version 339
Appendix B: Partial List of Translation Choices 349
Appendix C: Texts Quoted in the Training Anthology of Śāntideva 351
Notes 361
Works Cited 421
Index 425
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