List of events for academic year 1997–1998
Events Archive 1997–1998
Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies (SCBS) Lectures
Gregory Schopen
University of Texas
On Buddhist Monks and Making Babies: Strategies for Getting Boys into the Monasteries
Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies
Gregory Schopen
University of Texas
Bringing the Buddha into Town: Monastic Image Processions and Fundraising Techniques
Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies
Imai Masaharu
Tsukuba University, Japan
The Holy Renunciant Ippen: A Nenbutsu Monk of the Kamakura Period
Anne Klein
Rice University
Buddhism and Bon in Eighth-century Tibet
Dale Wright
Occidental College
Impermanence and Historicity in the Buddhist Thought of Enlightenment
SCBS Colloquium
The Religions of China
Franciscus Verellen
University Paris
The Zhang Daoling Legend in Medieval Sichuan: A New Perspective on Early Heavenly Master Daoism
Steven Sangren
Cornell University
Rebellious Sons and Filial Daughters: Gender and Filial Piety in Chinese Stories about Gods
Miriam Levering
University of Tennessee
Imagining the Impossible: The Woman Ch'an Master in the Golden Age of Ch'an Buddhism
Stephen Bokenkamp
Indiana University
The Salvation of Laozi: Transformations of the Sage in the Lingbao Scriptures
Hal Roth
Brown University
Original Tao: Inward Training (nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism
Angela Zito
Barnard College
Purchasing Parents: Filiality and Money in a Seventeenth-Century Short Story
Xu Xin
Nanjing University, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
On the Religious Life of the Kaifeng Jewish Community in the 15th-17th Centuries
Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies Program
Donald Leslie
Canberra University, Australia
Islam in China
Daniel Stevenson
University of Kansas
Ritualizing T'ien-t'ai 'Tradition' in the Sung
Charles Orzech
University of North Carolina
Politics and Enlightenment: Reflections on Method in the Study of Chinese Buddhism
Aramaki Noritoshi
Kyoto University
Northern Wei Buddhism at the Yün-kang Caves
Pat Berger
University of California, Berkeley
Politicizing the Pantheon: Inconographers of the Qianlong Court
Humanities Center Workshop
Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End
Organized by Mark Gonnerman. Co-sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center
Gary Snyder
Reading from his Mountains and Rivers Without End
Susan Matisoff
Asian Languages, Stanford University
Noh, Yamamba, and the Mountain Spirit
Carl Bielefeldt
Religious Studies, Stanford University
Dogen's Mountains and Rivers Sutra
Richard Vinograd
Art, Stanford University
Words on Paintings on Words, and the Esthetics of Endlessness
Raoul Birnbaum
University of California, Santa Cruz
Buddhists and Chinese Mountains: Representations, Fantasies, Real Practices
P.J. Ivanhoe
Religious Studies and Philosophy, Stanford University
Views of Nature in Early Chinese Thought
David Robertson
University of California, Davis
Gary Snyder: Riprapping in Yosemite, Circumambulating Mt. Tamalpais, Practicing on San Juan Ridge
Kimi Kodani Hill
The Life and Work of Chiura Obata
Tom Hare
Asian Languages, Stanford University
Reclaiming Orientalism
Robert Hass
University of California, Berkeley
Reading Mountains and Rivers Without End
Michael McClure
Reading Mountains and Rivers Without End
Haun Saussey
Asian Languages, Stanford University
Taking Nothing but Pictures (If That) with Wang Wei as Predecessor
David Freyberg
Geology, Stanford University
Hydrology for Poets: Mountains and Rivers, Canyons and Eddies
Charles Junkerman
Stanford Continuing Studies
Walking to Work
Norman Fischer
San Francisco Zen Center
Zen and the Art of Mountains and Rivers Without End
Timothy Dean
Stanford Humanities Center Fellow
The Force of Poetic Personality in Mountains and Rivers Without End
Workshops and Symposia
Critical Terms for Buddhist Studies
Carl Bielfeldt
Stanford University
Steven Collins
University of Chicago
Collett Cox
University of Washington
Janet Gyatso
Amherst University
Charles Hallisey
Harvard University
Donald Lopez
University of Michigan
Robert Sharf
University of Michagan
New Approaches to Buddhism: Three Recent Works
Evans-Wentz Conference. Co-sponsored by Department of Religious Studies
Steven Collins
Univeristy of Chicago
Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali Imaginaire, with comments by Collett Cox (Washington)
Janet Gyatso
Amherst University
Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiography of a Tibetan Visionary, with comments by Charles Hallisey (Harvard)
Donald Lopez
University of Michigan
Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, with comments by Robert Sharf (Michigan)
Zen Studies, Zen Practice
Co-sponsored by Green Gulch Farm, Marin
The Life, Times, and Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
Co-sponsored by Green Gulch Farm, Marin