Table of Contents
- CFP> AAR Unit: Indian and Chinese Religions
Compared
- Query - Resource for the study of Buddhist cave
- BOOK> Steven Heine, Readings of Dōgen's Treasury
of the True Dharma Eye
- 2020 ASCJ Conference Early Bird Registration
- Re: QUERY> Looking for the origins of the phrase
相由心生 境隨心轉
- H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 17
February - 24 February
CFP>
AAR Unit: Indian and Chinese Religions Compared
by Karen O'Brien-Kop
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting.
This is a reminder that the “Indian and
Chinese Religions Compared” unit of the American Academy of Religion invites
proposals for the Annual Meeting in Boston, November 21-24, 2020. The deadline
for submissions is 5pm EST on Monday, March 2. For more information, please see
below, or visit <https://papers.aarweb.org/pu/indian-and-chinese-religions-compared-unit>.
If you have any questions about the CFP,
please feel free to contact either Dan Lusthaus or Karen O'Brien-Kop.
Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University
Co-Chair
Karen O'Brien-Kop, University of Roehampton
Co-chair
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Call for Papers
This year we plan to explore the relationships between
art, literature, and religion in India and China. We encourage submissions on
the following themes:
- Religious Narratives and Visual
Arts
This will be a traditional papers session. We seek individual papers (rather than fully formed panels) exploring the relationship between religious narratives and visual arts (sculpture, murals, mandalas, illuminated manuscripts, etc.) in India and China. Comparative proposals are welcome, as are proposals focusing exclusively on India or China (so long as the material is accessible to a broader audience).
- Religion, Literature, and Global
Humanities
This will be an experimental session. The goal is not to present specialized research, but to initiate a conversation between scholars working on religion and literature in India and scholars working on religion and literature in China. What might the study of Indian literature have to offer to scholars of Chinese literature, and vice versa? What challenges are distinctive, and what challenges are shared? How might Indian or Chinese reading practices and literary theory contribute to the global humanities more broadly? The session will begin with a brief statement from each panelist, but the majority of the time will be devoted to open discussion. In lieu of a traditional paper proposal, we ask potential panelists to provide a description of their work, its relation to the field of religion and literature more broadly, and their vision of the global humanities. Potential panelists should also suggest one or two literary examples they might share with a non-specialist audience to illustrate their work.
Proposals should be submitted through AAR’s
PAPERS system (https://papers.aarweb.org).
Query
- Resource for the study of Buddhist cave
by Shou-Jen Kuo
Dear Colleages,Dr. Lewis Lancaster currently leads a group of graduate students to develop a map-based resource of Buddhist caves for future research. Does anyone have a thought about this area of knowledge and be willing to share? Even a list of seldom known caves and contact information or existing publication and research effort would be helpful for this group of graduate students to work on this map-based resource project. Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Shou-Jen Kuo
University of the West
BOOK>
Steven Heine, Readings of Dōgen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
by Steven Heine
Steven Heine, Professor and Director of Asian Studies at Florida
International University, announces a new publication with the series, The
Columbia Readings of Buddhist Literature edited by Stephen F. Teiser.Readings of Dōgen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
(Columbia University Press, 2020; ISBN: 9780231182294, 312 pages, $35.00 paperback).
The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable religious diversity and experimentation. The text is complex and compelling, famed for its eloquent yet perplexing manner of expressing the core precepts of Zen teachings and practice. This book is a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise. Steven Heine explores the religious and cultural context in which the Treasury was composed and provides a detailed study of the various versions of the medieval text that have been compiled over the centuries. He includes nuanced readings of Dōgen’s use of inventive rhetorical flourishes and the range of East Asian Buddhist textual and cultural influences that shaped the work. Heine explicates the philosophical implications of Dōgen’s views on contemplative experience and attaining and sustaining enlightenment, showing the depth of his distinctive understanding of spiritual awakening. Readings of Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye will give students and other readers a full understanding of this fundamental work of world religious literature.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part I. Textual Sources and Resources
1: Creativity and Originality: Orientations, Reorientations, and Disorientations
2. Receptivity and Reliability: Numerous Levels of Significance
3. Multiplicity and Variability: Differing Versions and Interpretations
Part II. Religious Teachings and Practices
4. Reality and Mentality: On Perceiving the World of Sentient and Insentient Beings
5. Temporality and Ephemerality: On Negotiating Living and Dying
6. Expressivity and Deceptivity: To Speak or Not to Speak
7. Reflexivity and Adaptability: The Functions and Dysfunctions of Meditation
8. Rituality and Causality: On Monastic Discipline and Motivation
With clarifying
beams of insight, Heine deftly evinces how Dōgen’s teachings are a creative
response to a range of Buddhist sutras, kōans, and Chinese and Japanese
teachers. Illuminating with philosophical virtuosity the dynamic nature of
Dōgen’s written teachings and erudite explication of entangled versions of
Dōgen’s writings, Heine animates Dōgen’s teachings and practices as he offers
nuggets of sagacity throughout. Paula Arai, author of Painting Enlightenment: Healing
Visions of the Heart Sutra
Vigorous and
insightful, Readings of Dōgen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye provides
a deep inspection of central themes in Dōgen's vast literal legacy. In a clear
and inspiring manner, Heine’s analysis sheds crucial light that clarifies both
the beauty and complexity of this giant Zen Master. Eitan
Bolokan, Tel Aviv University
Heine has
written a comprehensive, detailed, and accessible analysis of the textual,
religious, and philosophical intricacies of Dōgen’s master work, Shōbōgenzō. This careful work of synthesis builds on
his own original scholarship on Zen and the Shōbōgenzō itself,
and is one of the most thorough overviews of Dōgen’s thought to date. Richard
Jaffe, author of Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Japanese
Buddhism
A foremost Dōgen
expert's long-awaited, thorough, and comprehensive examination of the sublime
thinker whose monumental elucidation of dharma is beginning to inspire
meditators and beyond worldwide. Kazuaki Tanahashi, author of Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of
Zen Master Dōgen
Shōbōgenzō,
Dōgen's brilliant guidebook for the practice of Zen, is now widely recognized
as one of Buddhism's greatest masterworks. The importance of the text and its
complex difficulties cannot be overemphasized. Steven Heine's Readings provides excellent guidance through the text's
crucial issues. Truly, a monumental achievement—now the best book on Dōgen. Dale S.
Wright, author of Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know
2020
ASCJ Conference Early Bird Registration
by Alexander Vesey
The 24thAsian Studies Conference in Japan
Sophia University, July 4th~5th,
2020
Early Bird Registration Announcement
Deadline: April 20, 2020
The ASCJ
executive committee is pleased to announce the start of Early Bird registration
for this year’s conference on February 20th, 2020. All
presenters and other participants whose names are to appear on the program
should complete registration and payment by the April 20 deadline. Other participants are welcome to take advantage of this
reduced registration rate. (Please be aware that the ASCJ will only provide
letters of invitation for visa or funding purposes to participants who will be
listed in the program.)
Pre-registration offers a substantial fee reduction. From April 21st,
the registration fee will revert to the “Regular” level.
ASCJ Registration Schedule and Fees
Early Bird: \4000 (Graduate Students \1000)
Regular: \5000 (Graduate Students \1500)
Onsite: \6000 (Graduate Students \2000)
Please follow this link access to our registration system:
For more information on the 2020 ASCJ Conference, please see our website.
Re:
QUERY> Looking for the origins of the phrase 相由心生 境隨心轉
by Dan Lusthaus
Dear Esther-Maria,Re: 相由心生 境隨心轉
I don't know when or where the two phrases were placed together, but the second phrase has a discernible history, while the first phrase is either an eventual paraphrase of some of the discussion surrounding the first, or something with obscure origins.
The earliest examples of the second phrase, 境隨心轉, appear in Yogācārabhūmi commentaries, though attributed to 備師, i.e., 文備.
(on Wenbei, who is cited by others of that period, such as Wŏnhyo, DDB cites Chūgoku bukkyōshi jiten (Kamata) 301, Index to the Bussho kaisetsu daijiten (Ono) 647 as references.)
Kuiji’s 窺基 comm. on Yogācārabhūmi
《瑜伽師地論略纂》卷13：「隨與者。景師云。謂於和合乖違等境。思隨此境。與識俱轉。備師云。謂思能發心令境隨心轉。為之言作。作境隨與心也。太師云。謂思令心於所緣境。隨與領納和合乖違。今解由思令心於所緣境。隨與與領納。不須言和合等。此第一是總句。若言和合等。與第二等何異。」(CBETA, T43, no. 1829, p. 188, c7-12)
Dullyun’s 遁倫 (= 道倫 Doryun) commentary
《瑜伽論記》卷14：「備云。謂思能發心令境隨心轉。為之言[11]他他境隨與心也。」(CBETA, T42, no. 1828, p. 622, b18-20)
[11]他他＝作作【甲】。
So Wenbei appears to have coined that phrase.
It occurs in other Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing texts.
The first phrase, 相由心生, is harder to find.
It occurs in a negative context (非相由心生) in 《尊婆須蜜菩薩所集論》卷3：「此義云何。以一更樂非相由心生。是故彼無也。」(CBETA, T28, no. 1549, p. 743, a15-16), an abhidharmic-style text translated by Saṃghabhūti, et al. 僧伽跋澄等 in 384.
In a Qing anthology, whose compilation is attributed to a "most profound assistant" (侍者深極編), with assistance from a variety of “masters” 《神鼎雲外澤禪師語錄》卷8：「怡則 真龍 智舟 二如 楚賢 寂音 眾師助刻」(CBETA, J33, no. B280, p. 295, a6-7) there is this exchange - an epistemological question answered poetically:
《神鼎雲外澤禪師語錄》卷8：
「問名相由心生為什麼反為心礙。
答雪覆千山不露頂。」(CBETA, J33, no. B280, p. 292, a29-30)
The phrase seems to already be a "thing." Perhaps others can find its origin, and when the two phrases were welded together.
As you seem to have already discovered, the remaining two phrases from the four phrase passage you cited do not appear at all in the Chinese canon.
best wishes,
Dan
H-Net
Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 17 February - 24 February
by Matthew McMullen
The following jobs were posted to
the H-Net Job Guide from17 February 2020 to 24 February 2020. 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.org, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ANTHROPOLOGY
University of Pittsburgh - Instructor for study abroad program
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59960
University of Southern California - Postdoctoral Scholar - Teaching
Fellow in Middle East Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59955
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
College of the Holy Cross - Visiting Part-Time Faculty Position in
Chinese/East Asian History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59941
University of California - Berkeley - Lecturers - Various Fields of
History - Department of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59950
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Visiting Assistant Professor of
US/North American History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59942
RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY
University of Nebraska at Omaha - Open Rank, Religion and Film
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59961
