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- JOB
GUIDE> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2 July - 9 July
- NEW BOOK>
Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism, by Joseph Walser
- NEW BOOK>
A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor, by Roy Tzohar
JOB
GUIDE> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2 July - 9 July
by Jason Protass
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 2 July 2018 to 9
July 2018. 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.ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin - Full Professorship for 'Transregional Central Asian Studies' (W2)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56933
Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities - Post-doc in Buddhist Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56925
Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities - PhD position in Buddhist Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56926
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
National Chengchi University - Two Positions: Modern Asian History; Modern World History (non-Asia specialty)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56932
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities - Post-doc in Buddhist Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56925
Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities - PhD position in Buddhist Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56926
NONE
American Public Health Association - Archive Researcher
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56920
University of Sydney - The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences seeks to appoint a distinguished academic as Head of School, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56918
NEW
BOOK> Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism, by Joseph Walser
by Joseph Walser
Dear All,
My apologies for
cross-posting.
I would like to
announce the publication of my new book, Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism:
Emptiness, Power and the Question of Origins by Routledge Press. The book
is now available in paperback, hardcover and electronic formats (Vital Source
or Kindle). You can order it from Amazon or Barnes and Noble, but all three
versions are much cheaper on the Routledge website. (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/genealogies-of-mahayana-buddhism-joseph-g-walser/1127961011?ean=9781138955561).
I wrote the book
hoping that it would be both accessible and useful for advanced undergraduates
and graduate students to think about some of the thorny issues at the
intersection of religion, Buddhist doctrines and imperial power. Those of you
thinking of using it in a class, might want to use it as a follow up to Paul
William’s introduction to Mahayana Buddhism (also by Routledge).
I have uploaded a
table of contents online on my academia.edu site (https://tufts.academia.edu/JosephWalser).
The description on
the back of the book reads as follows:
Genealogies of
Mahāyāna Buddhism offers a solution to a problem that some have called the holy
grail of Buddhist studies: the problem of the “origins” of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
In a work that contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for
religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a Buddhist
movement, Walser argues that that it is the neglect of political and social
power in the scholarly imagination of the history of Buddhism that has made the
origins of Mahāyāna an intractable problem. Walser challenges commonly-held
assumptions about Mahāyāna Buddhism, offering a fascinating new take on its
genealogy that traces its doctrines of emptiness and mind-only from the present
day back to the time before Mahāyāna was “Mahāyāna.” In situating such concepts
in their political and social contexts across diverse regimes of power in
Tibet, China and India, the book shows that what was at stake in the Mahāyāna
championing of the doctrine of emptiness was the articulation and dissemination
of court authority across the rural landscapes of Asia. This text will be of
interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars of Buddhism,
religious studies, history and philosophy.
With warm regards,
Joseph
Joseph Walser
Associate Professor,
Department of Religion
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
NEW
BOOK> A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of Metaphor, by Roy Tzohar
by A. Charles Muller
A Yogācāra Buddhist Theory of MetaphorRoy Tzohar
Oxford University Press 2018
Hardback
296 Pages
ISBN: 9780190664398
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-yogcra-buddhist-theory-of-metaphor-9780190664398...
Description
Buddhist philosophy is fundamentally ambivalent toward language. Language is paradoxically seen as both obstructive and necessary for liberation. In this book, Roy Tzohar delves into the ingenious response to this tension from the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism: that all language-use is metaphorical. Exploring the profound implications of this claim, Tzohar makes the case for viewing the Yogācāra account as a full-fledged theory of meaning, one that is not merely linguistic, but also applicable both in the world as well as in texts.
Despite the overwhelming visibility of figurative language in Buddhist philosophical texts, this is the first sustained and systematic attempt to present an indigenous Buddhist theory of metaphor. By grounding the Yogācāra pan-metaphorical claim in a broader intellectual context, of both Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools, the book uncovers an intense philosophical conversation about metaphor and language that reaches across sectarian lines. Tzohar's analysis radically reframes the Yogācāra controversy with the Madhyamaka school of philosophy, sheds light on the Yogācāra application of particular metaphors, and explicates the school's unique understanding of experience.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. What do Buddhists have to say on figurative language?
2. A bit of methodology: on determining the relevant textual field and handling intertextual-borrowing.
3. An Outline
PART 1
Chapter I
Metaphor as Absence: The case of the Early Nyaya and Mimamsa.
Chapter II
Metaphor as Perceptual Illusion: Figurative Meaning in Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya
PART 2
Chapter III
It's a Bear... No, It's a Man... No, it's a Metaphor!
Asanga on the Proliferation of Figures
Chapter IV
The Seeds of the Pan-Figurative View: Metaphor in Other Buddhist Sources
PART 3
Chapter V
What It All Comes Down To: Sthiramati's Pan-Metaphorical Claim and Its Implications
Chapter VI
Conversing With a Buddha: The Yogacara Conception of Linguistic and Perceptual Meaning
as a Means for Overcoming Incommensurability
Conclusion:
The Alterity of Metaphor
Appendix A:
Translation and exposition of Vakyapadiya 2.250-256
Appendix B:
A Running translation of the Vakyapadiya 2.285-2.297
