Programme Section 8 Religion and History of Ideas The Theme of Pure Lands in Japanese Religions
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 |
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Opening Session |
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| 16:30 |
Keynote Address by Sueki Fumihiko 浄土教の現世性と来世性 [This-worldness and other-worldness of Pure Land Buddhism] |
| 18:00 | end of the academic programme |
Thursday, September 1, 2005 |
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Session 1 |
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| 9:00 | Sanno Miya Mandara: The iconography of pure land on this earth (Meri Arichi) |
| 9:30 | Medieval kami worship: The case of Miwa Shinto (Anna Andreeva) |
| 10:00 | Ise Sankei mandala and the image of the pure land (Peter Knecht) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 2 |
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| 11:00 | The phenomenon of invoking Fudô for rebirth in image and text (Karen Mack) |
| 11:30 | Tourists in paradise: Topographies of the pure Land in medieval Japanese fiction (R. Keller Kimbrough) |
| 12:00 | Kagura, hanamatsuri, and the concept of the pure land in Shugendô rituals (William Lee) |
| 12:30 | lunch break |
Session 3 |
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| 14:30 | The Skillful Means of the Abject Buddhist Body in the Yamai no soshi, a Twelfth Century Handscroll Painting (Gail Chin) |
| 15:00 | Another land for women - imaginary of tosotsu-ten ôjô in medieval Japan (Saeko Kimura) |
| 15:30 | The limits of Buddhist salvation: icchantikas, bodhisattvas, and lepers in medieval Japan (Fabio Rambelli) |
| 16:00 | coffee break |
Session 4 |
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| 16:30 | Bakin's belief (Harold Bolitho) |
| 17:00 | Monasticism in the Pure Land tradition: the Jishû in the mid-fourteenth century (Sybil Anne Thorton) |
| 17:30 | Shinran and semantics: The adaptation of pure land Buddhism to the Japanese (Natalia Petrovskaia) |
| 18:00 | end of the academic programme |
Friday, September 2, 2005 |
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Session 5 |
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| 9:00 | Overcoming of jiriki-tariki dualizm - pure land elements in philosophy of Nishida Kitarô (Agnieszka Kozyra) |
| 9:30 | Rebirth in the pure land - A postmortem fact or a religious experience in this life? The controversial interpretation of Suzuki Daisetsu (Maximiliane Demmel) |
| 10:00 | A phenomenology of self: Ueda Shizuteru's interpretation of the Ten Ox-Herding pictures (Steffen Döll) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 6 |
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| 11:00 | Shiratori Kurakichi : The transition of his theory upon Yamataikoku between 1910 and 1942 (Yoko Takau-Drobin) |
| 11:30 | Takagi Kenmyo: A Japanese shinshu martyr and misfit of the Meiji era (Paul Swanson) |
| 12:00 | The militarization of the Pure Land in modern Japan (Brian Victoria) |
| 12:30 | lunch break |
Session
7
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| Panel | Otani University Panel Discussant: Shin'ya Yasutomi |
| 14:30 | Seeking the Pure Land in post-war Japan: Yasuda Rijin's search for a Pure Land sangha and Dôbôkai Undô's quest for a Pure Land (Michael Conway) |
| Present-day social activities in Jôdô Shinshû (Ugo Dessi) | |
| The modernization of Shinshû in modern contexts: The case of Matsumoto (Takami Inoue) | |
| Facets of Pure Land Buddhism in Japanese culture (Elisabetta Porcu) | |
| 16:00 | coffee break |
Session 8 |
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| 16:30 | Religious Culture observed in translated literature and reality in Japan (Kayoko Nohara) |
| 17:00 | Kuroda Toshio (1926-93) and modern historiography on Jôdo Shinshû (Yoshida Tomoko) |
| 17:30 | Tariki, the adaptive unconscious, and authority (Galen Amstutz) |
| 18:00 | end of the academic programme |
Saturday, September 3, 2005 |
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Session 9 |
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| Film | |
| 9:00 |
Cosmic Disc: the Kumano Kanjin Jikkai Mandala on DVD (David Plath, Ronald Toby) |
| Discussion | |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 10 |
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| 11:00 | Sukhâvatî in the Context of Intermediate Existence (Ineke Van Put) |
| 11:30 | The Antarâbhava sûtra and its Implications for Linking the Intermediate Existence Doctrine with Amitâbha’s Pure Land (Mark Blum) |
| 12:00 | end of Section 8 |
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