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Curriculum Vitae: Daniel Boucher
Dept. of Asian Studies
Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-0723
E-mail: [email protected]
Educational Background:
1986
B.A. Indiana University (Bloomington); Religious Studies and Philosophy
(with Honors)
1989
M.A. Indiana University (Bloomington); Religious Studies
Thesis: "The Pratītyasamutpādagāthā: A Study and Contribution of Two
T'ang Translations" (directed by Dr. Gregory Schopen)
1996
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; East Asian Studies
Dissertation: "Buddhist Translation Procedures in Third-Century China: A
Study of Dharmarakṣa and His Translation Idiom" (directed by Dr. Victor H.
Mair; passed with distinction)
Awards:
1986
Outstanding Undergraduate Religious Studies Major, Indiana University
1986
Phi Beta Kappa
1989
William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (four-year fellowship
for doctoral study)
1990
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (for intensive summer
instruction in Tibetan)
1991
Dean's Scholar, University of Pennsylvania (awarded to ten graduate
students annually for excellence in graduate studies)
1993
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (The Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)
1993
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of
Pennsylvania (monetary award declined)
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1994
Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism) Fellowship
(for year-long research in Japan)
1995
School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, University of
Pennsylvania (monetary award declined)
1995
American Council of Learned Societies/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
Dissertation Research Fellowship in Chinese Studies (monetary award
declined)
1995
National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant
2000
Japan Travel Grant, East Asia Program, Cornell University (for summer
research in Kyoto and Tokyo)
2001
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
Teaching Experience:
1986-1988
Teaching Assistant, Indiana University, Dept. of Religious Studies
1990-1991
Teaching Assistant, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Asian and Middle
Eastern Studies
1996
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Dept. of Religious Studies
1996-1998
Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College, Dept. of Religious Studies
1998-2004
Assistant Professor, Cornell University, Dept. of Asian Studies
2004-
Associate Professor, Cornell University, Dept. of Asian Studies
Professional Service
2010-
Editorial Board, Cornell East Asia Series, publication series of East Asia
Program
Linguistic Qualifications:
Sanskrit, Buddhist Middle Indo-Āryan (Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Pāli, Gāndhārī, epigraphical
Prākrit), classical Chinese, classical Tibetan; Japanese, French
Major Fields of Interest:
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History of Indian religions; Indian Buddhism; Mahāyāna sūtra literature; Buddhist
Middle Indo-Āryan; Buddhism in Gandhāra and Central Asia
History of Chinese religions; Early Chinese Buddhism; Chinese translations of Buddhist
texts
History, theory, and methods in the academic study of religion; Popular religious
practice (pilgrimage, relic veneration, image cults, etc., including comparison of Asian
and Western traditions); Art historical, archeological, and epigraphical materials as
sources for the study of religion
History, theory, and practice of translation.
Papers Presented:
1993
“Translation as a Cross-Cultural Event: A Look at the Third-Century
Translator Dharmarakṣa" at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy
of Religion, Washington, D.C. (November 20 - 23).
1995
“The Nagaropamasūtra and the Genesis of an Apotropaic Text” at the
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, PA
(November 18-21).
1997
“Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: An Old Hypothesis
Reconsidered” at the 207th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental
Society, Miami, FL (March 23-26).
1997
“Straddling the Himalayas: Buddhist Translations in Third-Century China.”
Invited lecture at Tōhoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan (June 3).
1997
“Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: An Old Hypothesis
Reconsidered.” Invited lecture at Bukkyō University, Kyoto, Japan (July 2).
1998
“Indian Mahāyāna Sūtras through a Chinese Lens: Old Perspectives, New
Problems.” Invited lecture at the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, Harvard
University (February 9).
1998
“Evidence for the Transmission of Kharoṣṭhī Buddhist Texts to China: A New
Approach” at the 208th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society,
New Orleans (April 5-8).
1999
“The Textual History of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā: Notes on its Third-Century
Chinese Translation” at the XIIth Conference of the International
Association of Buddhist Studies, Lausanne, Switzerland (August 23-28)
2000
“The Transmission of ‘Barbarian’ Manuscripts to China: Another Source for
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Identifying Early Kharoṣṭhī Texts” at the 210th Annual Meeting of the
American Oriental Society, Portland, OR (March 12-15).
2000
“Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: Procedures and Problems.” Invited
lecture for the Seminar on China and Antiquity, University of Pennsylvania
(March 23).
2000
“The Transmission of ‘Barbarian’ Manuscripts to China: Another Source for
Identifying Early Kharoṣṭhī Texts.” Invited lecture at the International
Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, Hachiōji,
Japan (June 8).
2000
“Indian Buddhism Seen from the Other Side of the Himalayas: Promises and
Problems.” Invited lecture for the South Asia Program, Cornell University
(November 13).
2001
“The Textual History of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā: Notes on its Third-Century
Chinese Translation” at the 211th Annual Meeting of the American Oriental
Society, Toronto, Canada (March 30-April 2).
2002
“A Missing Piece Among the New Discoveries of Gandhāran Buddhist
Literature” at the XIIIth Conference of the International Association of
Buddhist Studies, Bangkok, Thailand (December 8-13).
2003
“Asceticism and the Glorification of the Buddha’s Body: A View from the
Early Mahāyāna.” Invited lecture at Stanford University, Dept. of Religious
Studies (February 20).
2003
“Asceticism and the Glorification of the Buddha’s Body: A View from the
Early Mahāyāna.” Invited lecture at the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum,
Harvard University (October 27).
2003
“The Beginnings of Buddhism at Dunhuang” at China at the Crossroads: A
Conference in Honor of Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania
(December 3-5).
2005
“Profit and Honor: An Early Mahāyāna Critique of Sedentary Monasticism”
at The 3rd Annual Hawai’i International Conference on Arts and Humanities,
Honolulu, Hawai’i (January 13-16).
2005
“Profit and Honor: An Early Mahāyāna Critique of Sedentary Monasticism”
at the XIVth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist
Studies, London, England (August 29-September 3).
2005
“Wilderness Dwelling in the Early Mahāyāna: A Sociological Perspective” at
The Institute of South Asia Studies, University of Texas, Austin (3
November).
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2006
“Straddling the Himalayas: Indian Buddhism Through a Chinese Lens” at
Translatio: Translation and Cultural Appropriation in the Ancient World,
Columbia University (3-4 March).
2006
“Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: A Reappraisal in
Light of New Finds” at the World Sanskrit Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
(10-14 July).
2007
“Is There a Gandhāran Source for the Avalokiteśvara Cult?” at the
International Lotus Sutra Seminar: Symposium on Guanyin, Putuo Shan,
China (4-9 June).
2007
“Straddling the Himalayas: Indian Buddhism Through a Chinese Lens” for
Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti (8 November).
2007
“Wilderness Dwelling in the Early Mahāyāna: A Sociological Perspective” at
the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA (1720 November).
2008
“What is a ‘Hīnayāna Zealot’ Doing in Fifth-Century China?” at the 218th
Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chicago (14-17 March).
2008
“Is There a Gandhāran Source for the Avalokiteśvara Cult?” at the XVth
Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Atlanta (23-28
June).
2008
“Early Chinese Translations of Gāndhārī Texts” at Gāndhārī Manuscripts
Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle (30 June- 3 July).
2009
“What is a ‘Hīnayāna Zealot’ Doing in Fifth-Century China?” at Buddhism
Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange,
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore (16-18 February).
2010
“What is a ‘Hīnayāna Zealot’ Doing in Fifth-Century China?” Invited lecture
for the Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University (22 April).
2011
“What Do We Mean by ‘Early’ in the Study of the Early Mahāyāna—and
Should We Care?” at The XIVth Congress of the International Association of
Buddhist Studies, Taipei, Taiwan (20-25 June).
2012
“Recruitment and Retention in Early Bodhisattva Sodalities” at the annual
meeting of the U.K. Association of Buddhist Studies, Cardiff, Wales, U.K. (7-8
July).
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“Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations: Reconsidering an
Old Hypothesis in Light of New Finds” at Cross-Cultural Transmission of
Buddhist Texts: Theories and Practices of Translation Symposium, Hamburg,
Germany (23-25 July).
Monographs:
2008
Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahāyāna: A Study and
Translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra. Studies in the Buddhist
Traditions (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press).
Edited Volume:
2006
China at the Crossroads: A Festschrift in Honor of Victor H. Mair. Special Issue of
Asia Major, 3rd. ser., 19, pts. 1-2. Co-edited with Neil Schmid and Tansen Sen.
Articles:
1991
"The Pratītyasamutpādagāthā and Its Role in the Medieval Cult of the Relics,"
The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 14.1: 1-27.
1995
"Sūtra on the Merit of Bathing the Buddha," in Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed.,
Buddhism in Practice (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 59-68; reprinted
in Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., An Anthology of Asian Religions in Practice
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), 206-215.
1995
"Kyōshu to shite no ‘jōyukyō’—yakuyoke kinō no kōsatsu to fuka monogatari
no honyaku" [The Nagaropamasūtra: Focusing upon its Role as ‘Religious
Teacher’—A Study of its Function as an Amulet and a Translation of its
Appendix]. In collaboration with Takamichi Fukita in Bukkyō daigaku sōgō
kenkyūsho kiyō [Bulletin of the Research Institute of Bukkyō University] 2: 107-129.
1996
“The Nagaropamasūtra: An Apotropaic Text from the Saṃyuktāgama. A
Transliteration, Reconstruction, and Translation of the Central Asian
Sanskrit Manuscripts,” In collaboration with Gregory Bongard-Levin,
Takamichi Fukita, and Klaus Wille in Sanskrit-Texte aus dem buddhistischen
Kanon: Neuentdeckungen und Neueditionen III. Sanskrit-Wörterbuch der
buddhistischen Texte aus den Turfan-Funden, Beiheft 6 (Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht), 7-131.
1998
“Gandārago to shoki kan’yaku—izen no kasetsu no saikōsatsu [Gāndhārī and
the Early Chinese Translations—A Reexamination of an Old Hypothesis]”
Takamichi Fukita, trans., Bukkyō daigaku bukkyō gakkai kiyō [The Bulletin of the
Association of Buddhist Studies, Bukkyō University] 6: 33-47.
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1998
“Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Buddhist Translations Reconsidered: The
Case of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra,” Journal of the American Oriental Society
118.4: 471-506.
2000
“On Hu and Fan Again: the Transmission of ‘Barbarian’ Manuscripts to
China,” The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 23.1: 7-28.
2001
“The Textual History of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā: Notes on its Third-Century
Chinese Translation,” Annual Report of the International Research Institute for
Advanced Buddhology for the Academic Year 2000 4: 93-115.
2005
“Buddhism and Language in Early-Medieval China,” in Victor H. Mair, Paul
R. Goldin, and Nancy Steinhardt, eds., A Reader of Traditional Chinese Culture
(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), 265-69.
2006
“Dharmarakṣa and the Transmission of Buddhism to China,” in China at the
Crossroads: A Festschrift in Honor of Victor H. Mair. Special Issue of Asia Major, 3rd
ser., 19, pts. 1-2: 13-37.
2008
“Is There an Early Gandhāran Source for the Avalokiteśvara Cult?” Journal
asiatique 296.2: 297-330.
2011
“Sacrifice and Asceticism in Early Mahāyāna Buddhism,” in Religion and
Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle. Edited by
Steven E. Lindquist (New York, London, Delhi: Anthem Press), 197-224.
2013
“What is a ‘Hīnayāna Zealot’ Doing in Fifth-Century China?” in volume
edited by Tansen Sen, forthcoming from Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, Singapore, 141-155.
2013
“The Rise of the Mahāyāna,” in Blackwell Companion to South and Southeast
Asian Buddhism. forthcoming in volume edited by Michael Zimmermann
(U.K.).
2013
“Recruitment and Retention in Early Bodhisattva Sodalities,” in volume on
the early Mahāyāna edited by Paul Harrison (U.K.).
2013
“Gāndhārī and the Early Chinese Translations: Reconsidering an Old
Hypothesis in Light of New Finds,” in volume edited by Dorji Wangchuk on
translation theory and practice in Buddhist cultures (Hamburg, Germany).
2013
“What Do We Mean by ‘Early’ in the Study of the Early Mahāyāna—And
Should We Care?” Bulletin of the Asia Institute n.s. 23: 31-39.
Encyclopedia Articles:
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2004
“Dharmarakṣa” and “Paramārtha” in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, gen. ed.
Robert E. Buswell, Jr. (New York: Macmillan Reference USA).
2011
“Mahāyāna,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Buddhism. Edited by Richard
Payne. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo
Book Reviews:
1990
Review of Donald S. Lopez, Jr., ed., Buddhist Hermeneutics (Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1988) in Pacific Affairs 63.3: 382-383.
1991
Review of Robert E. Buswell, Jr., ed., Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha (Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1990) in Journal of Asian Studies 50.4: 902-904.
1993
Review of Susan Naquin and Chün-fang Yü, eds., Pilgrims and Sacred Sites in
China (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and Oxford: University of California Press,
1992) in Pacific Affairs 66.3: 411-413.
1993
"Revisioning the Buddha," review of Malcolm David Eckel, To See the Buddha:
A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness (HarperSanFrancisco, 1992) in
Journal of the American Academy of Religion 61.3: 575-586.
1997
Review of Stephen F. Teiser, The Scripture of the Ten Kings and the Making of
Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. Kuroda Institute. Studies in East
Asian Buddhism 9 (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994) in Asian
Folklore Studies 56.1: 186-188.
1998
Review of Livia Kohn, Laughing at the Tao: Debates Among Buddhists and Taoists
in Medieval China (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) in China
Review International 5.1: 168-171.
2000
Review of Richard Salomon, Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhāra. The British
Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999) in
Sino-Platonic Papers, Reviews VIII: 58-71.
2002
Review of Jens Braarvig, gen. ed., Manuscripts in the Schōyen Collection I.
Buddhist Manuscripts, vol. 1 (Oslo: Hermes Publishing, 2000) in Indo-Iranian
Journal 45.3: 245-259.
2005
Review of Mark Allon, Three Gāndhārī Ekottarikāgama-Type Sūtras: British
Library Kharoṣṭhī Fragments 12 and 14 (with a contribution by Andrew Glass).
Gandhāran Buddhist Texts 2 (Seattle and London: University of Washington
Press, 2001) in Indo-Iranian Journal 48.3-4: 289-295.
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2008
Review of Andrew Glass, Four Gāndhārī Saṃyuktāgama Sūtras. Senior Kharoṣṭhī
Fragment 5 (with a contribution by Mark Allon). Gandhāran Buddhist Texts 4
(Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008) in Bulletin of the
Asia Institute n.s., 18 [2004]: 189-193.
2014
Review of Gérard Fussman and Anna Maria Quagliotti, The Early Iconography
of Avalokiteśvara. L’Iconographie ancienne d’Avalokiteśvara. Publications de
l’Institut de Civilisation Indienne, Collège de France, Fascicule 80 (Paris:
DIFFUSION DE BOCCARD, 2012) in Journal of the American Oriental Society
(forthcoming)