Outline:
A. Chan Practice and Chan Literature (5 lectures)
B. (2 lectures) Buddhism, Chan and Death
C. (3 lectures) Gender, Women and Men in Buddhism and Chan
Week 8 (11/3) Mon. Intro.
A. Chan Practice and Chan Literature
Week 8 (11/7) Fri.
1. Encounter Dialogue, The Formation of the Linji lu and the Charm of Chan Literature: Mazu, Linji, Yunmen, Dahui
Albert Welter, The Linji Lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan's Records of Sayings Literature. Oxford U. Press, 2008
Albert Welter, “Beyond Lineage Orthodoxy: Yongming Yanshou’s Model of Chan as Bodhisattva Cultivation,” in Chung Hwa Buddhist Journal.
John McRae, Seeing Through Zen, chapter 3: Metropolitan Chan: Imperial Patronage and the Chan Style
John R. McRae, Seeing Through Zen, chapter 4: The Riddle of Encounter Dialogue: Who, What, When and Where?
Week 9 (11/10) Mon.
2. Biography and Autobiography in Chan and Zen
Wu Pei-yi, The Confucian’s Progress, chapters 4 and 6, “Buddhist Testimonies” on Yuan dynasty Chan autobiography, and “”The Spiritual Autobiographiy of Te-ching (1546-1623) on Hanshan Deqing.
ML “Was there Religious Autobiography in China before the Thirteenth Century?
The Ch’an Master Ta-hui Tsung-kao (1089-1163) as Autobiographer.” The
Journal of Chinese Religions, No. 30, 2002, pp. 97-122.
Lynn Struve, “Deqing’s Dreams: Markers in a Reinterpretation of his Autobiography,”
Journal of Chinese Religions
Week 9 (11/14) Fri.
3. The Biyanlu (Blue Cliff Record): Guanyin and Gongan in Chan/Zen
ML “Guanyin/Avalokitesvara in Encounter Dialogues: Creating a Place for Guanyin
in Chinese Chan Buddhism,” Journal of Chinese Religions, 2006 (published in 2007).
ML “Why Does Dabei Guanyin Have a Thousand Eyes? A Study of Guanyin in
Chan Texts, Culminating in a Study of Case 89 in the Biyanlu (Blue Cliff
Record),” in William Magee and Yi-hsun Huang, eds., Bodhisattva
Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) and Modern Society, Taipei: Dharma Drum
Publishing Corporation, 2007, pp. 145-180.
Zhiru Ng, “Seeing Sounds: Guanshiyin as Sense Religion in Chinese Exegetical
Literature,” in Singapore Journal of Buddhist Studies 2 (2014)
Georges Dreyfus, “Is Compassion an Emotion?” in Richard J. Davidson, Anne
Harrington and Georges Dreyfus, eds. Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists
and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature. Oxford University Press, 2002
3a. A case study: The Gongan about the Buddha’s Birth
Week 10 (11/17) Mon.
4. Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163) and his Influence on Chan, Zen and Son, Part I: “Dahui Zonggao is the Source of So Much”
ML “Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163): The Image Created by his Stories about Himself
and his Teaching Style,” in Dale S. Wright and Steven Heine, eds. Zen Masters,
New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
ML “Miaodao and her Teacher Dahui,” in Buddhism in the Sung Dynasty, edited by
Peter N. Gregory and Daniel A. Getz, Jr. (Kuroda Institute Studies in East
Asian Buddhism 13, Honolulu: U. of Hawaii Press), 1999, pp. 188-219.
Morten Schlütter, “On the History and Evolution of Koan Introspection in Chinese Chan”
John McRae, Seeing Through Zen, Chapter 5: Zen and the Art of Fundraising
John McRae, Seeing Through Zen, Chapter 6: Climax Paradigm
Juhn Ahn, “Who Has the Last Word in Chan? Transmission, Secrecy and Reading During the Northern Song Dynasty,” Journal of Chinese Religions, Volume 37 Issue 1 (01 June 2009), pp. 1-72
Week 12 (12/1) Mon.
5. Chan and Zen after Dahui Zonggao
ML Dahui’s Letters in China, Japan and Korea (Dahui Shu, Daiesho, Daehae Shojang) (unpublished) to be distributed in class.
Natasha Heller, “The Chan Master as Illusionist: Zhongfeng Mingben’s Huanzhu Jiaxun”
Juhn Y. Ahn, “Zen and the Art of Nourishing Life: Labor, Exhaustion, and the Malady of Meditation”
B. Buddhism, Chan and Death
Week 12 (12/5) Fri.
6. Buddhism and Death
“Introduction,” in The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
edited by Bryan J. Cuevas, Jacqueline Ilyse Stone, pp. 1-31.
***John Strong, "The Death of the Buddha," in Cuevas and Stone, ed., The Buddhist Dead.
Jaccqueline I. Stone, “With the Help of Good Friends: Deathbed Ritual Practices in Early Medieval Japan”
https://www.princeton.edu/~jstone/Articles%20on%20Death%20in%20Buddhism/With%20the%20Help%20of%20Good%20Friends%20Deathbed%20Ritual%20Practices%20in%20E.pdf
Jacqueline I. Stone, “Death,” in Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism
Jacqueline I. Stone, “By the Power of one’s Last Nenbutsu: Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan”
https://www.princeton.edu/~jstone/Articles%20on%20Death%20in%20Buddhism/By%20the%20Power%20of%20One's%20Last%20Nenbutsu%20-%20Deathbed%20Practices%20in%20Ea.pdf
Week 13 (12/8) Mon.
7. Chan, Zen and Death
ML “The Huatou Revolution, Pure Land Practices, and Dahui’s Chan Discourse on the
Moment of Death,” Frontiers of History in China 8:3 (2013) pp. 342-365.
ML “Dahui Zonggao (1089-163) and Death, with special Attention to his ‘Sermons to the Ten Directions (Pushuo)’
Daisetz T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture, chapters V and VI, “Zen and Swordsmanship,” parts 1 and 2.
C. Gender, Men and Women in Buddhism and Chan
Week 13 (12/12) Fri.
8. Buddhism, Gender, Women and Men
John Powers, A Bull of a Man
Reiko Ohnuma, Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism
Naomi Appleton, “In The Footsteps Of The Buddha? Women and the Bodhisatta Path in Theraväda Buddhism”
Galen Amstutz, “Ambivalence Regarding Women and Female Gender in Premodern
Shin Buddhism”
Week 14 (12/15) Mon.
9. Chan, Zen, Women, and Gender
ML "Lin-chi (Rinzai) Ch'an and Gender: The Rhetoric of Equality and the Rhetoric
of Heroism," in Jose Ignatio Cabezon, ed., Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender.
Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 1992, pp. 137-156.
ML “Dogen’s Raihai tokuzui and Women Teaching in Sung Dynasty Chan,” JIABS.
ML “The Raihaitokuzui and Dogen’s Views of Gender and Women: A
Reconsideration,” in Steven Heine, ed., Dogen and Soto Zen.
New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2014.
Beata Grant, “Da Zhangfu: The Gendered Rhetoric of Heroism and Equality in Seventeenth-Century Chan Buddhist Discourse Records”
Week 14 (12/19) Fri.
10. Buddhist nuns in China and East Asia, especially Chan and Zen Nuns
ML Buddhist Nuns in China to 1300 C.E.: Facts, Ideals and Representations
Wendi Adamek, “A Niche of Their Own,” in History of Religions 49/1 (2009a): 1–26.
Ding-Hwa Hsieh, “Buddhist Nuns in the Song Dynasty”, in Song-Yuan Studies,
ML “Women Chan Masters: The Teacher Miaozong as Saint,” in Arvind Sharma, ed.,
Women Saints in World Religions, SUNY Press, pp. 180-204.
Li, Yu-chen. “Crafting Women's Religious Experience in a Patrilineal Society: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns in Action (1945--1999).” Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University, 2000. (optional)
Li Yu-chen,
Wei-Yi Cheng, Hsuan Chuang University
“A Cross-Tradition Exchange Between Taiwan and Sri Lanka,”
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
ISSN 1076-9005
http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/ Volume 18, 2011
Week 15 (12/22) Mon.
Last class, no lecture
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