List of events for the 1998–1999 academic year

Events Archive 1998–1999
Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies (SCBS) Lectures
February 25, 1999
Robert Duquenne
Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Japanese Legends about Fudō Myōō
February 29, 1999
Robert Duquenne
Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient
Daemonology in Pediatrics: The Kumaratantra in Chinese Buddhist Garb
March 5, 1999
Johannes Bronkhorst
Univesity of Lausanne
Is There Philosophy in India?
SCBS Conferences
May 28–30, 1999
Buddhist Priests, Kings, and Marginals
Evans-Wentz Conference. Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies
Abe Ryuichi
Mantras, Outcasts, and Emperorship
Abe Yasurō
Background and Motivation of Tengu zōshi: Jien, Keisei, and The Demonic World
David Bialock
Beggars, Outcasts, and Historical Narrative in Medieval Japan
Bernard Faure
Medieval Japanese Buddhism and the Imperial Regalia
Allan Grapard
Sacred Kingship and Courtesans
Thomas Hare
The Emperor and His Noh Clothes
Hosokawa Ryoichi
Emperor Go-Daigo's Royal Power and Ritsu Monks: Monkan, Sonkyō, and Kyōen
Iyanaga Nobumi
Tantrism and Reactionary Ideology in East Asia and Japan
Susan Matisof
The Log Cabin Emperor: Marginality and the legend of Oguri Hangan
Charles Orzech
Images of Empire: Re-negotiating Religion and Kingship in the T'ang
Fabio Rambelli
The Emperor's New Clothes: Processes of Resignification of the Seven-Day Imperial Ritual (goshichinichi no mishihô) in Japanese History
Brian Ruppert
Beginning Buddha: The Economy of Rulership in the Latter Seven day Rite (goshichinichi mishihô) and the Offering of Alms-Coins (fuse-zeni)
Sakurai Yoshiro
The Myth of Royal Authority and Shinbutsu Shugō
John Strong
Asoka's Wives and the Ambiguities of Buddhist Kingship
SCBS Student Colloquium
James Robson
Excavating the Strata of Mt. Nanyue's Religious History
Irene Lin
Protectors of the Boundary: Divine Children in Medieval Japanese Buddhism
Lisa Grumbach
The Hunting Rituals of Suwa Jinja: Kami Worship, Buddhism and Negotiation over Religious Practice in Medieval Japan
Will Hansen
Hirata Atsutane's Rhetoric of Ritual
David Quinter
Kūkai before China: Historical Stories and Hagiographies
Julius Tsai
Ecstatic Flight and Kingly Journey in Early China
Nancy Stalker
Onisaburō and the Political Role of Omotokyō
Buddhist Studies Seminar Lectures
January 25, 1999
Fabio Rambelli
Williams College
The Economy of Salvation: Capital, Value, Production and Salvation in Medieval Japan
February 1, 1999
John Kieschnick
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
A Brief History of the Buddhist Rosary in China
February 8, 1999
Jeffrey Mass
Stanford University
Priests and Property and Other Topics
February 15, 1999
Allan Grapard
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Hiko-san Festival
March 8, 1999
Gregory Schopen
University of California, Los Angeles
Working Class Men and the Socially Broken in Indian Buddhist Monasteries
April 5, 1999
William Bodiford
University of California, Los Angeles
Grounded Religion: Patterns of Land Exchange in Medieval Japan
April 19, 1999
Griffith Foulk
Sarah Lawrence College
The Spiritual and Material Economy of Merit Dedication in Japanese Zen
April 22, 1999
Hashimoto Hiroyuki
Chiba University
Capitalism of Etoki