Buddhism Section and Buddhist-related Sessions: (Boston, 1999)

Saturday, Nov. 20

3:45-6:15 p.m. (A40) Buddhist Concepts of History

Tanya Storch, University of Florida, Presiding

• Mark Blum, State University of New York at Albany. Gyonen's Model of Buddhist History [abstract]
• Stephen C. Berkwitz, University of California at Santa Barbara. Emotions and Ethics in the Sinhala Thupavamsa [abstract]
• Charles Hallisey, Harvard University. Historiography and Ethics in later Theravada Buddhism [abstract]
• Zeff Bjerken, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Stylized Symmetries in Tibetan Buddhist Historical Narratives [abstract]

Respondent: Robert Sharf, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Sunday, Nov. 21

9:00-11:30 a.m. (A72) Probing the Traces: Reevaluating the Relationship between Buddhism and "Shinto" in Premodern Japan (co-sponsored with the Japanese Religions Group) [report]

James H. Sanford, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Presiding

• Ryuichi Abe, Columbia University. Heavenly Tempter and the Precepts: the Worship of Kami as the Focus of Myoe's Reform Movement [abstract]
• Lisa Grumbach, Stanford University. Hunting for the Buddha: The Shinto-Buddhist Negotiation of Hunting Practices at Suwa Shrine [abstract]
• Fabio Rambelli, Williams College. The Labor of Traces: Miwa Rituals for Professionals [abstract]
• Brian Ruppert, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Pearl in the Shrine: A Genealogy of the Buddhist Jewel of the Japanese Sovereign [abstract]
• Mark Teeuwen, University of Oslo, Norway. Esoteric Honji Suijaku Practices Around Amaterasu [abstract]

Respondent: Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University

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1:00-3:30 p.m. (A103) Authority and Hierarchy in Ch'an/Zen Buddhism [report]

A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, Japan, Presiding

• Albert Welter, University of Winnipeg. Official Recognition in Chinese Ch'an Buddhism during the Early Sung Dynasty [abstract]
• T. Griffith Foulk, Sarah Lawrence College. The "Master" in Sung Ch'an Texts and Rites [abstract]
• Stuart Lachs (unaffiliated). Means of Authorization: Establishing Hierarchy in Ch'an/Zen Buddhism [abstract] [paper]
• Lawrence W. Gross, Iowa State University. Legitimate versus Illegitimate: Towards a Hermeneutics of Transmission in Zen Buddhism [abstract]

Respondent: Angela Zito, New York University

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3:45-6:15 (A132) Sangha Issues [report]

Collett Cox, University of Washington, Presiding

• Maria Hibbets, Harvard University. Can the Sangha be Immoral? [abstract]
• Jennifer Dumpert, Graduate Theological Union. History from Here: Suggestions for the Creation of a Zen Buddhist History of Women [abstract]
• Douglas Padget, Indiana University. Americans Need Something to Sit On: Zen Meditation Materials and Buddhist Diversity in North America [abstract]
• Paul Donnelly, Northern Arizona University. The Paradox of Monastic Tantrism in Late Indian and Tibetan Buddhism [abstract]

Monday, Nov. 22

9:00-11:30 a.m. (A156) New Studies in South and Southeast Asian Buddhism [report]

Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College, Presiding

• Andy Rotman, University of Chicago. Confidence in Uncertainties: Belief and Community in Avadana Literature [abstract]
• Jacob Kinnard, Northwestern University. Tracks of Multivalence: Footprints of the Buddha and/as Footprints of Vishnu [abstract]
• Joseph Walser, Tufts University. Nagarjuna and Early Andhra Monastic Institutions [abstract]
• Mathieu Boisvert, Universitè du Quèbec á Montrèal. Monks and Nuns; but Where are the Kids? [abstract]
• Sariya Jarasviroj, Arizona State University. Wandering-in-between: Questions of Identity and Forest Monks in Northeast Thailand [presentation not made]

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3:45-6:15 p.m. (A214) Icons, Idols, and Objects: Facets of Materiality in East Asian Buddhism

Gary Laderman, Emory University, Presiding

• Panelists: Fabio Rambelli, Williams College; Michael Walsh, University of California; Santa Barbara; James Robson, Stanford University; Dorothy Wong, University of Virginia; Eric Reinders, Emory University

Respondent: Gil Anidjar, Williams College

Tuesday, Nov. 23

9:00-11:30 p.m. (A246) Regional Buddhisms; Universal Discourses

Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Presiding

• James L. Ford, Wake Forest University. Jokei and Honen: Debating the Universal and Particular in Medieval Japanese Buddhism [abstract]
• James Robson, Stanford University. A Regional Perspective on Buddhists at Mt. Nanyue [abstract]
• Bruce Williams, University of California at Berkeley. Ling-yü (516-605 CE): Local Practice and Universal Doctrine [abstract]

Respondent: John R. McRae, Indiana University

Other Panels with Buddhist-Related Content

Fri., Nov. 18, 1:00-3:30 p.m. (AM18) Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies: Religion in an Age of Consumerism (1)

Buddhist Panel: Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont

Sat., Nov. 20, 9:00-11:30 a.m. (AM76) Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies: Religion in an Age of Consumerism (2)

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Sat., Nov. 20, 1:00-p.m.-3:30 p.m. (A33) Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group.

Theme: Donald S. Lopez, Jr.'s Prisoners of Shangri-La: Evaluations and Reflections

Panelists:

• David Germano, University of Virginia
• Thupten Jinpa, Cambridge University
• Robert Thurman, Columbia University

Respondent: Donald S. Lopez, Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Sat., Nov. 20, 1:00-p.m.-3:30 p.m. (A29) Person, Culture, and Religion Group [report]

Franz Aubrey Metcalf, California State University, Los Angeles, Presiding

Theme: Psychology and Buddhism

• John R. Haule, C. G. Jung Institute, Boston
  Psychoanalysis and Social Virtuosity: Jung and Ch'an Buddhism [abstract]
• David Need, University of Virginia
  On the Limits of the Self: A Consideration of Buddhist and Psychological Notions of Wholeness and Health [abstract]
• Lynken Ghose, McGill University
  Emotional Healing in Buddhism [abstract]
• Michael C. Mitchell, Boston University
  Buddhist Practice through the Lens of Psychology: An Example [abstract]

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Sat., Nov. 20, 3:45-6:15 p.m. (A44) Philosophy of Religion Section. Non-Theistic Ethics [report]

James M. Shields, McGill University, Presiding

Theme: Non-Theistic Ethics

• Edward Ted Slingerland, University of Colorado, Boulder
  Confucius as Virtue Ethicist
• Sallie B. King, James Madison University
  Natural Law in Theravada Buddhist Ethics [abstract]

Respondent: Sumner B. Twiss, Brown University

Theme: Buddhism and Phenomenology

Dale S. Wright, Occidental College, Presiding

• John Y. Cha, Gustavus Adolphus College
  Phenomenology and Beyond: Description andTransformation in Classical Indian Yogacara [abstract]

Respondent: Dan Lusthaus, Florida State University,

• Gereon Kopf, Luther College
  The Four Dimensions of Genjokoan: Dogen's Religious Philosophy as Phenomenology [abstract]

Respondent: Steven Heine, Florida International University

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Sun., Nov. 21, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 p.m. (A95) Studies in Yogacara Buddhism Seminar

Joe B. Wilson, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and A. Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University, Presiding.

Theme: Vasubandhu's Trisvabhavanirdesa [report]

• Papers, responses, and other information from this and previous sessions are available at the the AAR Yogacara Seminar Web Site.

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Sun., Nov. 21, 8:30-10:00 p.m. (A151) Art Series Film: Becoming the Buddha in L.A.

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Mon., Nov. 22, 9:00-11:30 a.m. (A180) Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Group

Georges Dreyfus, Williams College, Presiding

Theme: Tibetan Buddhism on the Borderlands

• Bryan Cuevas, University of Virginia
  Notes for a History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead: Textual Transmission and Printing from Tibet to Bhutan
• Gregory A. Hillis, University of Virginia
  In Exile from the Land of Snows: Longchenpa's Sojourn in Bhutan and Its Literary Impact
• Paul Nietupski, John Carroll University
  Lamas and Literature at Twentieth-Century Labrang
• Kurds Schaeffer, Harvard University
  Patronage, Printing, and Tibetan Buddhist Literary Culture in Dolpo: The Life and Writings of Tenzin Repa, Founder of Shel Monastery
• Gray Tuttle, Harvard University
  What Chinese Buddhists Wanted (and What They Got) from Tibetan Buddhism

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Mon. Nov. 22, 9:00-11:30 am (A181) Tokugawa Religion Seminar

Paul Watt, DePauw University, Presiding

Theme: From Confucian Values to Popular Culture: Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki-Yako (Night Meanderings of a Hundred Demons)

• Hiromi Maeda, Harvard University
  Elite Confucianism versus Popular Buddhism: Ikeda Mitsumaso's Confucian Anti-Buddhist Campaign during 1661-1672
• Dennis Lishka, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Elizabeth Harrison, University of Arizona
  Haunted by Ghosts, Tickled by Demons: Toriyama Sekien's Hyakki-Yako (Night Meanderings of a Hundred Demons)

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Mon. Nov. 22, 11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m. (A183) Roundtable Session: William Waldron, Middlebury College The Siren Song of Self: How Can We Think of Thoughts without a Thinker? [abstract]

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Mon., Nov. 22, 1:00-3:30 p.m. (A209) Tantric Studies Seminar:

Douglas R. Brooks, University of Rochester, Presiding

Themes: The Social and Political Dimensions of Tantra, and Tantric Studies

Seminar: Retrospective and Prospective

Panelists:

• Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University
• David Gardiner, Colorado College
• June McDaniel, College of Charleston
• C. John Powers, Australian National University
• Serinity Young, Columbia University
• Paul E. Muller-Ortega, University of Rochester

Respondent: Charles D. Orzech, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

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Mon., Nov 22, 3:45-6:15 p.m. (A223) Chinese Religions Group [report]

Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding

Theme: Healing the "Island of Greed": Perspectives on the Religious Renaissance in Contemporary Taiwan

• Chen-kuo Lin, National Chengchi University
  Building a "Pure Land on Earth": Master Yin Shun and Buddhism in Taiwan [abstract]
• Yen-zen Tsai, National Chengchi University
  Apocalyptic Sects in Contemporary Taiwan [abstract]
• Elise Ann DeVido, National Chengchi University
  The "Infinite Worlds" of Taiwan's Buddhist Nuns [abstract]

Respondents: Miriam L. Levering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Robert Kisala, Nanzan Institute for Religions and Culture

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Mon. 3:45pm-6:15pm (A230) Japanese Religions Group

Richard K. Payne, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding

Theme: Intellectual and Pedagogic Reflections on The Collected Works of Shinran

Panelists:

• Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University
• Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
• Eisho Nasu, Institute of Buddhist Studies
• John P. Keenan, Middlebury College

Respondents: Mark Unno, Carleton College, and Dennis Hirota, Harvard University

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Mon. 3:45pm-6:15pm (A231) Korean Religions Group

Robert Neville, Boston University, Presiding

Theme: Faith, Value, and Enlightenment: The Encounter among Buddhism, Christianity, and Confucianism in Korea

• Hearn Chun, McCormick Theological Seminary Two Approaches to Death: Songch' ol and Ch ong Chiyong
• HakJoon Lee, New Brunswick Theological Seminary From Familism to a Critical Communitarianism: A Christian-Confucian Conversation on Economic Ethics
• Kang-Nam Oh, University of Regina Kkech'imand Metanoia: A Methodological Reflection on the Buddhist-Christian Encounter
• Sung Bae Park, State University of New York, Stony Brook Christian Faith as Seen through Mom/Momchit Paradigm in Korean Buddhism

Respondents: Chai Sik Chung, Boston University, and Bockja Kim, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Mon., Nov 22, 5:00-7:30 p.m. (AM205) Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Deconstruction and Buddhism

SACP Panel for a Concurrent Meeting at the 1999 AAR

John J. Holder, St. Norbert College, Chair

Panel Title: Deconstruction and Buddhism [report]

• Robin Roth, Manchester College, Derrida and Buddhism
• Jin Young Park, Vassar College, Notes on Interlocking Deconstruction and Buddhism
• Robert Magliola, Abac University, Thailand, Yogacaric Critiques of Derrida and How the Prasangika-Madhyamika Abets Him

Respondents: Steven Heine, Florida International University, Eric Jarrow, Vassar College