NEW
APPOINTMENTS
Kevin Carr has taken a post as Instructor in the History of Art department, University of Michigan.
Jay Ford was promoted to Associate Professor of East Asian religions in the Dept. of Religion at Wake Forest University.
Richard Jaffe was promoted to Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Dept. of Religion at Duke.
RECENT
AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
James Dobbins published Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan (ISBN 0-8248-2870-4; University of Hawai'i Press) in September 2004.
Jay Ford's forthcoming publications include “Kōshiki and the Discourse of Established Buddhism in Medieval Japan” in Language and Discourse in Medieval Japanese Buddhism , eds. Richard Payne and Rev. Taigen Leighton. “ Competing With Amida: A Study and Translation of Jō kei’s Miroku kō shiki .” Monumenta Nipponica , Spring 2005.
Richard Jaffe published the following articles: Jaffe, R. M. “Seeking Śākyamuni: Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism.” Journal of Japanese Studies 30, no. 1 (2004): 65-96 and Jaffe, Richard M. “Ungo Kiyō’sŌjōyōka and Rinzai Zen Orthodoxy.” In Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha, edited by Richard K. Payne and Kenneth Tanaka. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
Bill LaFleur published “Awesome Nightfall: The Life, Times, and Poetry of Saigyô” in '03 and co-edited, along with Susanne Formanek, “Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan,” published in Vienna this year.
Taigen Dan Leighton
DOGEN'S EXTENSIVE RECORD: A Translation of the Eihei Koroku Translated by Taigen Dan Leighton and Shohaku Okumura Edited and introduced by Taigen Dan Leighton Foreword by Tenshin Reb Andersen with introductory essays by Steven Heine and John Daido Loori. 720 pages, cloth with ribbon, ISBN 0-86171-305-2. http://www.wisdompubs.org/products/0861713052.cfm
T wo new books relating to pilgrimage in Japan will be published in early 2005, one focused more on contemporary issues and pilgrims’ experiences, the other more on historical and political themes surrounding a pilgrimage site, but with several overlapping themes relating to landscape and the processes through which pilgrimage sites are constructed. These are Ian Reader's study of the Shikoku pilgrimage, Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Landscape in Shikoku, which will come out from the University of Hawaii Press in February 2005, and Sarah Thal’s study of Konpira Shrine (also in Shikoku) Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan 1573-1912, from the University of Chicago Press, also in early 2005.
Brian Ruppert has written the article, "Buddhism in Japan," which will appear in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, currently in-press.
Janine Tasca Sawada published Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan in May 2004 with the University of Hawai'i Press. Her essay, "The Confucian Linguistic Community in Late Tokugawa Japan," has also appeared this year in Confucian Spirituality, ed. Tu Wei-ming and Mary Evelyn Tucker (Crossroad Press).