List of events for academic year 1998–1999

Date
Monday January 25th 1999, 2:30PM

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 Chinses 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 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