Online Workshop: "New Directions in Zen Studies"

Online Workshop: “New Directions in Zen Studies” 

Dates: January 29, 9:30 am–12:30 pm and January 30, 9:30 am–1 pm (Pacific Time). 

Registration:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-Rr6sI9TZXLR3VAsQoKldQQX9jbrpGEb_8oapRsRbOvAo2A/viewform

Registration Deadline: January 22  

A Zoom link will be sent to registered participants a few days before the workshop. 

Workshop Program

Friday, January 29 

Steven Heine (FIU): “When Mountains Can No Longer Be Seen”: A Critical History of Interpretations of an Ambiguous Shōbōgenzō Sentence 

Marta Sanvido (UC Berkeley): Deconstructing Heresy: Premodern Secret Knowledge and the Making of Modern Zen 

Michaela Mross (Stanford): The Invention of Lay Buddhist Choirs in Modern Sōtō Zen.

Saturday, January 30 

Pamela Winfield (Elon): Zen Bodies of Knowledge 

Richard Jaffe (Duke): Zen and D. T. Suzuki’s Columbia University Lectures, 1952–1953

William Bodiford (UCLA): The Resurrection of Dōgen 

For more information, please contact Michaela Mross at mmross [at] stanford.edu (mmross[at]stanford[dot]edu).