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1. RESOURCE> BDRC Mobile App (iOS & Android)
2. COURSE> Pali Online School - January 2018
3. NEW BOOK> "Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan"

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RESOURCE> BDRC Mobile App (iOS & Android)

by Charles DiSimone

The Buddhist Digital Resource Center (formerly Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center) has reliesed a mobile app for both iOS and Android.

The mobile app makes it possible to access texts from BDRC’s library with a few taps on a mobile touchscreen, whether the user is in a remote area or a major city.

BDRC’s Library on iOS and Android

The BDRC App is available on iOS and Android operating systems. Please visit our storefront on the App Store and on Google Play for more information and to download the app for use on your mobile device. Users can also download the app using these QR codes:

 
More info avaialbe here: https://www.tbrc.org/#!footer/news/20170718

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COURSE> Pali Online School - January 2018

by Steven Egan

The next Pali Online School from the OCBS will run 2 - 20 January 2018.  The course runs every day except Sunday.
The aim of the course is that by the end of it you will be able to translate original Pali texts, using normal aids such as dictionaries.

Details of this January's course are as follows:
W18 Course dates: 2 - 20 January 2018
Monday – Saturday: 9am – 1.30pm, extendable to 2pm GMT  (for time conversion please visit www.thetimenow.com)
Cost: £750
Practical Arrangements: The course will take place 100% online. A computer, high speed internet and basic ability to use email, and a web browser are needed.
Full details on the course, plus a booking form, can be found at http://ocbs.org/courses/pali-online-school/ 

The Pali Online School has already run five times, and was a great success with people saying such things as:
"Professor Gombrich really shares his experience with the language over the years"
"...this is my best experience with online learning so far"
"It has exceeded my expectations"

For any questions please contact steven.egan@ocbs.org.
The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies is a Recognised Independent Centre of the University of Oxford.

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NEW BOOK> "Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan"

by Anna Andreeva

Dear colleagues,

My apologies for this shameless self-promotion. My first book, focusing on temple networks, kami worship, and non-elite practitioners of esoteric Buddhism in medieval Japan, has been recently published by Harvard Asia Center. I hope that it may be of interest to some of you. Below, I copy the publisher's description, TOC, and links purely for your convenience.

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http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970571

HARDCOVER

ISBN 9780674970571, Harvard East Asian Monographs 396

420 pages, 9 color illustrations, 1 halftone, 14 line illustrations, 3 maps
During the late twelfth to fourteenth centuries, several precursors of what is now commonly known as Shinto came together for the first time. By focusing on Mt. Miwa in present-day Nara Prefecture and examining the worship of indigenous deities (kami) that emerged in its proximity, this book serves as a case study of the key stages of “assemblage” through which this formative process took shape. Previously unknown rituals, texts, and icons featuring kami, all of which were invented in medieval Japan under the strong influence of esoteric Buddhism, are evaluated using evidence from local and translocal ritual and pilgrimage networks, changing land ownership patterns, and a range of religious ideas and practices. These stages illuminate the medieval pedigree of Ryōbu Shintō (kami ritual worship based loosely on esoteric Buddhism’s Two Mandalas), a major precursor to modern Shinto.
In analyzing the key mechanisms for “assembling” medieval forms of kami worship, Andreeva challenges the twentieth-century master narrative of Shinto as an unbroken, monolithic tradition. By studying how and why groups of religious practitioners affiliated with different cultic sites and religious institutions responded to esoteric Buddhism’s teachings, this book demonstrates that kami worship in medieval Japan was a result of complex negotiations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I. Mt. Miwa and the Yamato Landscape
1. The Ancient Cultic Site
2. Temple Networks in Southern Yamato
Part II. Holy Men and Buddhist Monks at Miwa
3. Miwa Bessho
4. Saidaiji
5. From Ise to Miwa and Beyond
Part III. Assembling Shinto
6. Enlightenment for the "Country Bumpkins"
7. Miwa-ryu Shinto
Conclusion
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Many thanks for your kind attention!

Anna Andreeva.
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Anna ANDREEVA (Ph.D., Cantab.)
Research fellow, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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