The 3rd Ryukoku University International Symposium on "Buddhism in Japanese Culture"
Date
Fri Mar-9-2012, 10:00am - Sat Mar-10-2012, 5:00pmLocation
Gold Lounge, Faculty Club, Stanford University
Program / Series
Co-sponsor
Ryukoku University
Please contact Professor Eisho Nasu: enasu@let.ryukoku.ac.jp if you are interested in attending. Please note that all presentations in this symposium will be in Japanese (with English summary).
Agenda
March 9 (Morning Session) 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
1. “A Portrait of the Emperor Godaido Stored at Bukkoji”
Yoshida Yui (Post Doctoral Researcher, Ryukoku University)
2. “On Kamo no Mabuchi’s Thought”
Hara Masako (Professor, Kinran Senri University)
March 9 (Afternoon Session) 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
3. “Sugawara Chido’s Books on Preaching Topics”
Kusaka Yukio (Professor, Ryukoku University)
4. Multilayered World View of a Medieval Japanese Priest in Sijuhyakuinnensho
Nasu Eisho (Professor, Ryukoku University)
5. “On the Custom of Meat Eating and Marriage of Jodo Shinshu Priests: Particularly Focusing on the Tokugawa Era”
Atsushi Hirata (Professor, Ryukoku University)
March 10 (Morning Session) 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
6. Title TBA
Christopher Callahan (Post Doctoral Researcher, Harvard University)
7. “Kukai Portrait and Its Ritual Environment: On the Visuality and Orthodoxy in Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhism”
Ryuichi Abe (Professor, Harvard University)
March 10 (Afternoon Session) 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
8. Belief in Living Buddhas in Early Medieval Japan”
Sarah Horton (Researcher, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai)
9. “A Study of Modern Renditions of the Life Shinran”
Michelle Li (Visiting Scholar, Stanford University)
10. Title TBA
Wilburn Hansen (Associate Professor, San Diego State University)
