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MICHEL MOHR
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University of Hawai‘i
Department of Religion
2530 Dole Street
Honolulu, HI 96822
http://michelmohr.com
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Doctorat ès Lettres) in History of religions with Highest Honors. University of Geneva, Faculty of
Letters, Département des langues et des littératures méditerranéennes, slaves et orientales, Geneva,
Switzerland, 1992.
Licence ès Lettres in History of religions. University of Geneva, Faculty of Letters, Département des langues
et des littératures méditerranéennes, slaves et orientales, Geneva, Switzerland, 1982. Major: History of
religions (Buddhism, Islam, Judaism). Minors: Japanese, Linguistics, Sanskrit, and Chinese.
RESEARCH INTEREST
Religious and intellectual history, universalism in Asia. Nondenominational approaches to religious
practice. Japanese and Asian religions. Relational database architecture.
TEACHING COMPETENCE
Japanese and Asian religions, Buddhism in particular. Japanese and Chinese culture and history.
Intellectual history. Japanese classical and modern language. Philosophy and history of religions.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010–present
Associate Professor. University of Hawai‘i Mānoa Campus, Department of Religion.
2015
Sabbatical leave in Japan and in Taiwan. In Japan, appointment at the International Research
Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto as Visiting Research Scholar. In Taiwan, affiliation with
the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica and with the Center for Chinese Studies at the
National Central Library.
2012–2014
Associate Professor and Department Chair. University of Hawai‘i Mānoa Campus,
Department of Religion.
2010–12
Associate Professor. University of Hawai‘i Mānoa Campus, Department of Religion.
2007–10
Assistant Professor. University of Hawai‘i Mānoa Campus, Department of Religion.
2006–07
Visiting Scholar. Brown University, Providence, RI, Department of Religious Studies.
2006 to present
Visiting Fellow. Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions, Doshisha
University, Kyoto.
2005–06
Lecturer. Doshisha University, Kyoto.
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2004–05
Lecturer. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto.
2003–06
Research Associate. Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya.
1999–2003
Full-time researcher and professor. International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism,
Hanazono University, Kyoto.
1997–99
Lecturer. Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto.
1996–97
Lecturer. Kyoto University, Kyoto.
1987–92
Instructor. University of Geneva, Switzerland.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality. Harvard East Asian Monographs
351. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2014.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066946
Reviews in English:
♦ Josephson, Jason Ānanda. 2015. “Review of Michel Mohr. Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for
Universality.” H-Buddhism List http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38990
♦ Ion, Hamish. 2015. International Bulletin of Missionary Research 39: 236–245.
http://www.internationalbulletin.org/issues/2015-04/2015-04-240-mohr.html
♦ Ward, Ryan. 2016. The International Journal of Asian Studies 13: 120–122.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38990
♦ Fessler, Susanna. 2016. The Journal of Japanese Studies 42 (1): 144-47.
https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_japanese_studies/v042/42.1.fessler.html
Traité sur l’Inépuisable Lampe du Zen: Tōrei (1721–1792) et sa vision de l’éveil (Treatise on the
Inexhaustible Lamp of Zen: Tōrei and his Vision of Awakening), 2 vols. Mélanges chinois et
bouddhiques vol. XXVIII. Brussels (Bruxelles) 1997: Institut Belge des Hautes Études Chinoises,
in French.
http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=6719
Reviews in English:
• Payne, Richard K. 2003. Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Third Series, 5: 380–82.
• Roboüam, Thierry-Jean. 1999. Monumenta Nipponica 54 (4): 561–64.
Refereed Book Chapters
“Sengai’s Multifaceted Legacy,” In Zen Master Sengai: 1750–1837, edited by Katharina Epprecht.
Zürich: Scheidegger and Spiess, 2014, pp. 16–24. German and French translations.
“The Use of Traps and Snares: Shaku Sōen Revisited” in Zen Masters, edited by Steven Heine and
Dale S. Wright, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 183–216.
--------- Below are chapters published before receiving tenure at UH -----------“Beyond Awareness: Tōrei Enji’s Understanding of Realization in the Treatise on the Inexhaustible
Lamp of Zen, Chapter 6.” In Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings, edited by William
Edelglass, and Jay L. Garfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 159–170.
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“Invocation of the Sage: The Ritual to Glorify the Emperor.” In Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Buddhist
Theory in Practice, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2008, pp. 205–222.
--------- Below are book chapters published before working at UH -----------“Fūshiga mondai no haikei o saguru 風刺画問題の背景を探る” (Examining the Background of the
Cartoons Issue). In EU to isurāmu no shūkyō dentō wa kyōzon dekiru ka: “Muhanmado no
Fūshiga jiken” no honshitsu ＥＵとイスラームの宗教伝統は共存できるか 「ムハンマドの風刺画」事件
の本質 [Can the EU and Islam Coexist? The True Nature of the “Incident of the Muhammad Cartoons”],
edited by Mori Kōichi 森 孝一. Tokyo: Akashi Shoten, 2007, pp. 16–64, in Japanese.
“Imagining Indian Zen: Tōrei’s Commentary on the Ta-mo-to-lo ch’an ching and the Rediscovery of
Early Meditation Techniques during the Tokugawa Era.” In Zen Classics: Formative Texts in the
History of Zen Buddhism, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2006, pp. 215–246.
“Chan and Zen.” In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Second Edition, edited by Donald Borchert.
Detroit: Macmillan Reference, Gale Group/Thomson, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 726–30.
“L’héritage contesté de Dokuan Genkô : Traditions et conflits dans le bouddhisme Zen du XVIIe
siècle.” In Repenser l’ordre, repenser l’héritage: paysage intellectuel du Japon (XVIIe–XIXe
siècles), edited by F. Girard, A. Horiuchi and M. Macé. Paris-Genève: Droz, 2002, pp. 209–63, in
French. http://www.droz.org/fr/livre/?GCOI=26001100496290
Review in English: O’Leary, Joseph S. 2004. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 31 no. 1, 2004: 213–16.
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2837
“Zengaku niwa hōhōron ga ariuruka 禅学には方法論がありうるか？” (Is Methodology Relevant to the
Study of Zen?). In Bukkyō o ikani manabuka: Bukkyō kenkyū no hōhōronteki hansei 仏教をいか
に学ぶか 仏教研究の方法論的反省. Kyoto: Heirakuji shoten 平楽寺書店, 2001, pp. 149–74, in
Japanese.
“Emerging from Nonduality: Kōan Practice in the Rinzai Tradition since Hakuin.” In The Kōan: Texts
and Contexts in Zen Buddhism, edited by Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright. Oxford and New
York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 244–79.
“Hakuin.” In Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan, and the Modern World, edited by Y.
Takeuchi, J. W. Heisig, P. L. Swanson and J. S. O’Leary. World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic
History of the Religious Quest, Vol. 9. New York: A Herder & Herder Book, The Crossroad
Publishing Company, 1999, pp. 307–28.
“Zenbukkyō kara mita ‘experience’ 禅仏教からみた「experience」” (Experience in the Light of Zen
Buddhism), translated by Iwamoto Akemi 岩本明美. In Kyōto zen shinpo ronshū: Myōnichi e no
teigen 京都禅シンポ論集 明日への提言 [Collected Papers of the Kyōto Zen Symposium:
Proposals for Tomorrow], edited by Horio Tsutomu 堀尾孟. Kyoto 1999: Tenryūji kokusai sōgō
kenkyūsho 天龍寺国際総合研究所, pp. 503–37, in Japanese.
“Konton no jikaku kara hyōgen e: Zenbukkyō ni okeru kotoba no toraekata no ichisokumen 混沌の自
覚から表現へ 禅仏教に於ける言葉の捉え方の一側面” (From the Awareness of Primordial Chaos
to Its Expression: One Facet of Speech from the Perspective of Zen Buddhism). In Keiken to
kotoba 経験と言葉, Hōshaku hikaku-shūkyō: Bunka-sōsho 宝積比較宗教・文化叢書 3, Tokyo
1995: Taimeidō 大明堂, pp. 207–38, in Japanese.
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“Bonshō dōkyo: kakehashi toshite no shūkyō 凡聖同居 架け橋としての宗教” (Cohabitation of the
Profane and the Sacred: Religion as a Bridge). In Jinsei to shūkyō: Nishimura Eshin kyōju kanreki
kinen bunshū 人生と宗教 西村惠信教授還暦記念文集, Kyoto 1993: Zenbunka kenkyūsho 禅文化
研究所, pp. 498–505, in Japanese.
Refereed Articles
Note: Since 2012 the University of Hawai‘i has been implementing an Open Access Policy. As a result,
most journal articles published since that year are available in PDF format on the UH repository
called “ScholarSpace.” The collection of articles by Michel Mohr can be found here:
http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/25582
“Immeasurable Devices: Their Treatment in the Damoduoluo chanjing and Further Distillation in
Japanese Zen.” Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies 16, July 2015, pp. 63–94
(http://ir.ddbc.edu.tw:8080/bitstream/987654321/471/2/03-Michel Mohr.pdf).
“Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism and Particularism Surrounding the Sutra on the Difficulty
of Reciprocating the Kindness of Parents,” Journal of Religion in Japan 2 (1), May 2013, pp.
35–62.
“Plowing the Zen Field: Trends since 1989 and Emerging Perspectives,” Religion Compass 6 (2), 2012,
pp. 113–124. Abstract
--------- Below are articles published before receiving tenure at UH -----------“Cutting through Desire: Dokuan Genkō’s Odes on the Nine Perceptions of Foulness,” The Eastern
Buddhist, vol. 40 nos. 1 & 2, 2009, pp. 175–215 [published in April 2010].
--------- Below are articles published before working at UH -----------“Murakami Senshō: In Search [of] the Fundamental Unity of Buddhism,” The Eastern Buddhist, vol.
37 nos. 1 & 2, 2005, pp. 77–105 [published in September 2006].
“Introduction” for the Special Issue on Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Trends towards Religious Unity in
Meiji, The Eastern Buddhist, vol. 37 nos. 1 & 2, 2005, pp. 1–7 [September 2006].
“Hiratsuka Raichō ga mita kindai no shūkyō to sono hyōka 平塚らいてうが見た近代の宗教とその評価”
[Modern Religions as Hiratsuka Raichō Saw and Evaluated Them], Kindai bukkyō 近代仏教 12,
February 2006, pp. 20–38, in Japanese.
“Nijusseiki ni okeru kaigai zenbukkyō kenkyū no seika to nijūisseiki e no kadai: 1989–2004 no dōkō o
chūshin ni ２０世紀における海外禅仏教研究の成果と２１世紀への課題 1989〜2004年の動向を中心に” [Zen
Research in Languages other than Japanese: Achievements in the 20th Century and Challenges for
the 21th Century, with a Focus on Trends in 1989–2004], Kindai bukkyō 近代仏教 11, May 2004,
pp. 75–100, in Japanese.
“Kindai ‘Zenshisō’ no keisei: Kōgaku Sōen to Suzuki Daisetsu no yakuwari o chūshin ni 近代「禅思想」
の形成 洪岳宗演と鈴木大拙の役割を中心に” [The Formation of ‘Zen Thought’ after the Meiji Era:
The Role Played by Kōgaku Sōen and Suzuki Daisetsu], Shisō 思想, no. 943, November 2002, pp.
46–63, in Japanese.
“Linking Chan/Seon/Zen Figures and Their Texts: Problems and Developments in the Construction of
a Relational Database,” Journal of Digital information (Online Journal), vol. 3 no. 2, Themes:
Digital libraries. http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/jodi-69/81
“Linking Chan/Seon/Zen Figures and Their Texts: Problems and Developments in the Construction of
a Relational Database,” Jeon ja bul jeon: Journal of Electronic Buddhist Texts 3, December 2001,
pp. 219–38.
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“Zengaku niwa hōhōron ga ariuruka 禅学には方法論がありうるか？” [Is Methodology relevant to the
Study of Zen?], Nihon bukkyō gakkai nenpō 日本佛教學會年報 66, May 2001, pp. 149–74, in
Japanese.
“Nantenbō to sono shisō tenkai 南天棒とその思想展開” [Nantenbō and the Development of His Thought],
Kindai bukkyō 近代仏教 7, March 2000, pp. 50–69, in Japanese.
“Japanese Zen Schools and the Transition to Meiji: A Plurality of Responses in the Nineteenth
Century,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 25 nos. 1–2, Spring 1998 Special Issue on
Meiji Zen, pp. 167–213. http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2649
“Monastic Tradition and Lay Practice from the Perspective of Nantenbō: A Response of Japanese Zen
Buddhism to Modernity,” Zen Buddhism Today, Annual Report of the Kyoto Zen Symposium,
no. 12, November 1995, pp. 63–89.
“Tōrei no chosaku ni kansuru mondai (sono ichi): Bumo onnanpōkyō chūge to ‘kōkō’ no shisō 東嶺の
著作に関する問題（その一）父母恩難報経註解と「孝行」の思想” [Problems Concerning the Works of Tōrei
(1): His Annotated Commentary of the Sūtra on the Difficulty of Repaying the Debt of Gratitude
toward One’s Parents and the Concept of Filial Piety], Zengaku kenkyū 禅学研究, vol. 73, January
1995, pp. 143–89, in Japanese.
“Zen Buddhism during the Tokugawa Period: The Challenge to Go Beyond Sectarian Consciousness,”
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 21 no. 4, December 1994, pp. 341–72.
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2548
“Examining the Sources of Japanese Rinzai Zen,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 20 no. 4,
December 1993, pp. 331–44.
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2525
“Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism,” Zen Buddhism Today, Annual Report of the Kyoto Zen
Symposium, no. 10, November 1993, pp. 12–31.
“Vers la redécouverte de Tōrei” [Towards the Rediscovery of Tōrei], Les Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie,
no. 7, 1993–94, Special Issue on Chan and Zen Buddhism, pp. 319–52, in French.
“Tōrei zenji ni miru Hakuin zen no shinmenmoku” 東嶺禅師に見る白隠禅の真面目 [The True Face of
Hakuin Zen Seen through his Disciple Tōrei], Zenbunka 禅文化, no. 125, July 1987, pp. 41–54, in
Japanese.
Works in Progress
Edition of a volume provisionally titled Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions, featuring some
of the revised papers originally presented at the March 2014 Numata Conference.
On the Inexhaustible Lamp of the Primary Approach: An Annotated Translation of Tōrei Enji’s
Shūmon mujintōron (forthcoming book for the Kuroda Institute).
Tōrei Enji and the Construction of Rinzai Orthodoxy (forthcoming book for the Kuroda Institute).
Translation of the Damoduoluo chanjing 達摩多羅禪經 (Meditation Sutra of Dharmatrāta, T 15 no.
0618).
Book Reviews
Tikhonov, Vladimir and Brekke, Torkel, eds. 2012. Buddhism and Violence: Militarism and Buddhism in
Modern Asia. The Journal of Asian Studies 73 (2), May 2014: 519–22.
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0021911814000059
--------- Below are reviews published before receiving tenure at UH ------------
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Adolphson, Mikael S. 2007. The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sōhei in Japanese
History (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies 35 (1), Winter 2009: 138–42.
--------- Below are reviews published before working at UH -----------Williams, Duncan Ryūken. 2005. The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen: Buddhism in Tokugawa
Japan (review), Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 33 (1), June 2006: 175–78.
http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/2891
Heine, Steven. Opening a Mountain: Kōans of the Zen Masters (review), The Journal of Japanese Studies 29 (2),
2003: 398–402.
Shōjikan to bukkyō: Hito no shi towa nanika 生死観と仏教 人の死とは何か [Views on Life and Death in
Buddhism: What Constitutes a Person’s Death?] (Tokyo: Heibonsha 2000), Kindai bukkyō 近代仏教 8,
March 2001: 70–73, in Japanese.
Sawada, Janine. Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan, Bijinesu
saiensu kenkyūsho shohō ビジネスサイエンス研究所所報, vol. 7, December 1998: 36–43 (reprint of the
review previously published in Japanese Religions).
“Note critique : Vers une ‘démystification du Chan’ ” [Critical Note: Toward a “Demystification of Chan”],
Études Chinoises, vol. XIV, no. 1, Spring 1995: 135–44, Book-review of Bernard Faure’s Chan Insights
and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press 1993.
Sawada, Janine. Confucian Values and Popular Zen: Sekimon Shingaku in Eighteenth-Century Japan, Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press 1993, Japanese Religions, 20 (1), January 1995: 85–95.
“Quelques notes au sujet de l’article de Cristina Anna Scherrer-Schaub concernant les ‘Modalités du regard en
réciprocité’” [A Few Notes on the Article of Cristina Anna Scherrer-Schaub Entitled “Modalities of a
Reciprocal Glance”], in Bulletin de la Société Suisse pour la Science des Religions, no. 14, October 1992:
21–25.
Matsumoto, Jikidō. Avec le Bouddha [With the Buddha] (Guy Trédaniel: Editions de la Maisnie, Paris 1988),
Connaissance des Religions, vol. VI nos. 2–3: 251–53.
Hoover, Thomas. L’Expérience du Zen [The Zen Experience], Connaissance des Religions, vol. V no. 4:
339–41.
Martin, J.-M. Le Shintoïsme Ancien [Ancient Shinto], Connaissance des Religions, vol. V nos. 2–3,
September–December 1989: 258–60.
Electronic Publications
Maintenance of the collection “Zen Texts” hosted on eVols, the open-access digital institutional repository for
the University of Hawai‘i. See http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10524/33744.
Prefaces, Translations, and Obituaries
Sasaki, Jōshū. 2014. About Tathāgata Zen. Translated by Michel Mohr, edited by Kendō Hal Roth and Meg
Taylor. Los Angeles: Rinzai-ji Press, 70 pages.
--------- Below is work done before receiving tenure at UH -----------“Professor Yanagida Seizan: A Scholar above Conventions,” in Yanagida Seizan sensei tsuitō bunshū kankōkai
柳田聖山先生追悼文集刊行会 ed. 2008, Yanagida Seizan sensei tsuitō bunshū 柳田聖山先生追悼文集
[Volume in Commemoration of Professor Yanagida Seizan]. Kyoto, Zenbunka kenkyūsho: 51–55
(Obituary of Yanagida Seizan 1921–2006).
--------- Below is work done before working at UH ------------
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“Gedatsu sae motomenu chisoku 解脱さえ求めぬ知足” [Moderation that Does not Even Aspire to Liberation],
Zenbunka 禅文化 158, October 1995: 45–46 (Obituary of Daigu Sōkō 大愚宗興, Morinaga 盛永
1925–1995).
Supervision and Preface of the translation of T.P. Kasulis’s book: Zen Action: Zen Person, translated into French
by Bénédicte Niogret under the title Le Visage Originel ou l’individu dans le bouddhisme zen, Les Deux
Océans, Paris 1993. Foreword: 9–13.
Translation of Okonogi Keigo 小此木啓吾, “Le Complexe d’Ajase” [The Ajase Complex] for the journal
Devenir, vol. 3, no. 4, December 1991: 71–102.
Translation of Nishimura Eshin 西村惠信. “Chōbutsu osso no dan 超仏越祖の談・禅における認識と超越,”
in Ninshiki to chōetsu 認識と超越, ed. by Inagaki Fujimaro 稲垣不二麿, Tokyo 1981, Hokuju shuppan
北樹出版: 71–89. Published in English under the title “Transcending the Buddhas and Patriarchs:
Awareness and Transcendence in Zen,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 12, nos. 2–3: 193–205.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
December 2015, Taipei, public lecture, “Reopening a Debate that Remained Dormant for a Century: Past and
Present Approaches to ‘Universality’ and the Contrast Between Contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese
Buddhism,” for the Center for Chinese Studies, Taiwan National Central Library 國立圖書館漢學研究中心,
in English.
December 2015, Puli, lecture, “Reopening a Debate that Remained Dormant for a Century: Past and Present
Approaches to ‘Universality’ and the Contrast Between Contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese
Buddhism,” for the Buddhist Institute, Zhongtai Chansi 中台禪寺, in English.
December 2015, Taipei, public lecture, “Reopening a Debate that Remained Dormant for a Century: Past and
Present Approaches to ‘Universality’ and the Contrast Between Contemporary Japanese and Taiwanese
Buddhism,” for the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica 中央研究院民族學研究所, in English.
September 2015, Genève, presentation “La Pointe Indienne du Triangle: Hori Shitoku, les débats autour du
célibat, et les tentatives de revitaliser le Bouddhisme à l’ère Meiji,” for the public symposium “Le
japonisme bouddhique : négocier le triangle « religion, art et nation »” at the Musée d’ethnographie de
Genève, in French and English.
July 2015, Kyoto, public lecture, “Toward the Reexamination of Universality: Indian Inspiration for Hori
Shitoku and Fellow Meiji Buddhist Clerics Opposed to Marriage” for the Nichibunken Evening Seminar at
the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, in English.
June 2015, Tokyo, paper presentation “Fuhen ni takusareta yume: Hori Shitoku no Indo tokō, sono Nihon
bukkyō fukkō no ganbō to shūhen no shomondai 普遍に託された夢：堀至徳のインド渡航、その日本仏教
復興の願望と周辺の諸問題 (Dreams of Universality: Hori Shitoku’s Trip to India, His Hope to Revive
Japanese Buddhism, and Related Issues), in the University of Tokyo’s Department of Indian Philosophy
and Buddhist Studies, in Japanese.
June 2015, Kyoto, presentation “Nihon ni okeru Yuniterian tachi no fuhen o meguru ronsō to sono gendaisei 日
本におけるユニテリアンたちの普遍をめぐる論争とその現代性” (Japanese Debates Surrounding the
Unitarians’ Version of Universality and their Modernity) for the graduate class Issues of Modern Theology
(1) : Theological Concepts and Recognition, at Dōshisha University, in Japanese.
June 2015, Kyoto, presentation “Why Should Unitarians in Meiji Japan Matter to Us Here and Now?” for the
class Japanese Religion and Monotheism, at Dōshisha University, in English.
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October 2014, Honolulu, paper “Shūha shugi yori dasshutsu dekiru no ka? Tannaru ‘taiwa’ o koeru ryōiki ni
zenshin suru kanōsei ni tsuite 宗派主義より脱出できるのか？単なる「対話」を超える領域に前進する可能性につ
いて” (Is There a Cure for Sectarianism? Prospects for moving beyond the realm of mere “dialogue”),
Multidisciplinary Workshop in Japanese on the theme “Prospects for Overcoming Sectarian Boundaries in
Japanese Buddhism: Possible Contributions of Buddhist Scholarship,” at the University of Hawai‘i, in
Japanese.
August 2014, Vienna, paper “Immeasurable Devices: Their Treatment in the Damoduoluo chanjing and Further
Distillation in Japanese Zen” for the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
at the University of Vienna.
June 2014, Tokyo, paper “Pursuers of a New Humanism: Nishida Tenkō and Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s Utopian
Visions and Their Shifting Horizons” delivered at the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) at Sophia
University, for the Panel “Past & Future Perfect: History and Utopia in Meiji and Taishō Japanese Buddhist
Reform.”
March 2014, Honolulu, paper “The Missing Link: Bridging the Gap Between Meiji Universalism, Postwar
Pacifism, and Future Transreligious Developments” delivered at the Numata Conference in Buddhist
Studies on the theme of Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and Future.
September 2013, Kyoto, lecture titled “Yuniterian to nihon bukkyō no sesshoku: Meiji, Taishō jidai ni okeru
fuhenteki shinri no mosaku to sono zasetsu yori manaberu mono ユニテリアンと日本仏教の接触—明治・大正
時代に於ける普遍的真理の摸索とその挫折より学べるもの—” (Contacts between Unitarianism and Japanese
Buddhism: The Pursuit of Universal Truth during the Meiji and Taishō Periods, Lessons from Its Failure)
delivered at the University of Kyoto Institute for Research in the Humanities for a conference on
“Multilayered Intellectual and Religious Contacts in a Globalizing Context: Prospects for the Humanities”
(invited lecture), in Japanese.
November 2012, Chicago, paper “Going Beyond in Rinzai Zen: Some Philosophical Implications of
Emphasizing Integration over Insight” delivered at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of
Religion, Panel “Knowledge and Power in Buddhist Philosophy.”
October 2012, public lecture on “Filial Piety with a Zen Twist,” at the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, San
Diego State University (invited lecture).
May 2012, Kurjey, Bhutan, paper “Filial Piety with a Zen Twist: Universalism and Particularism Surrounding
the Sutra on the Difficulty of Reciprocating the Kindness of Parents,” for the International Conference on
Globalized Buddhism.
June 2011, Jinshan, Taiwan, paper “Between Skillful Adjustment and Distortion: Nineteenth-Century Buddhist
Doctrine with a Rational Spin,” for the XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
at Dharma Drum Buddhist College.
--------- Below are presentations given before receiving tenure at UH -----------June 2010, Tokyo, paper “The Other Face of ‘Rational Religion’: The Discordant Voice of Saji Jitsunen,” for
the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) at Waseda University.
September 2009, Berkeley, CA, paper “Can Zen Studies Break away from Parochialism?” for the Conference
Tracing the Study of Japanese Buddhism at UC-Berkeley (invited conference presentation).
April 2009, Toronto, paper “Spiritual Energy in Action: The Dynamics of Training According to Tōrei” for the
Numata Conference on Buddhist Training in Japan at the University of Toronto (invited conference
presentation).
October 2008, Chicago, paper “Shaku Sōen and the Challenge of the Modern” for The Seventh Annual Japan at
Chicago Conference on the theme “Buddhism and Japan’s Modern” at the University of Chicago (invited
conference presentation).
June 2008, Tokyo, paper “Between Good Intentions and Hypocrisy: Use and Abuse of Claims of Universality in
Early Meiji” for the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) at Rikkyo University.
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October 2007. Berkeley, CA, paper “On the Proper Use of Traps and Snares: Reflections on Language and
Translation” for the Numata Conference at UC-Berkeley (invited conference presentation).
--------- Below are presentations given before working at UH -----------April 2007. Iowa City, IA, public lecture on “Meiji Religions: The Japanese Rediscovery of Universality” at the
University of Iowa, Department of Religious Studies (invited lecture).
January 2007. Honolulu, HI, lecture for the faculty of the Department of Religion on “Unitarianism, Buddhism,
and the Meiji Competition for Universality” at the University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa Campus (invited lecture).
October 2006. Cambridge, MA, paper on “The Unitarian Impact on the Modern Transformation of Japanese
Buddhism” for the Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, at Harvard University (invited lecture).
September 2006, Claremont, CA, paper “Fascination for Religious Unity: The Case of Murakami Senshō
(1851–1929)” for the Symposium “Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan” organized by
Scripps College (invited conference presentation).
November 2005, Kyoto, paper “Shūkyōsha ga nagameta nijusseiki hajime no Yōroppa no hōkai: Rōzentswaiku
no Kyūsai no hoshi o chūshin ni 宗教者が眺めた２０世紀初めのヨーロッパの崩壊 ローゼンツヴァイクの『救済
の星』を中心として” (Religious Responses to the Collapse of Europe in the Early 20th Century: The Case of
Franz Rosenzweig and The Star of Redemption), for the Research Seminar on the European Religious
Policies at the Faculty of Theology of Doshisha University, in Japanese.
March 2005, Tokyo, paper “Murakami Senshō and His Theory about the Fundamental Unity of Buddhism: A
Genuine Attempt to Go Beyond the Sectarian Horizon?” at the 19th World Congress of the International
Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).
May 2004, Chiba Prefecture, paper “Hiratsuka Raichō ga mita kindai no shūkyō to sono hyōka 平塚らいてう
が見た近代の宗教とその評価” (Modern Religions as Hiratsuka Raichō Saw and Evaluated Them),
delivered at the 12th Conference of the Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhist History held at
Shukutoku University, in Japanese.
March 2004, Providence, RI, lecture “The Combinative Nature of Tokugawa Religions: A Case Study” at Brown
University (invited lecture).
April 2003, Geneva, lecture “Hiratsuka Raichō (1886–1971) : Un regard ingénu sur les religions contemporaines,
(Hiratsuka Raichō (1886–1971): An Innocent Look onto Contemporary Religions), at the University of
Geneva, Faculté des lettres (invited lecture), in French.
January 2003, London, lecture “Examining the Avatars of Bodhidharma: Tōrei’s Commentary on the
Damoduoluo chanjing and His Japanese Sources” at the Center for the Study of Japanese Religions, SOAS
(invited lecture).
December 2002, Bangkok, paper “Nantenbō (1839–1925) and the Meiji Transformation of Zen Buddhism” at
the XIIIth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Panel Preaching and Teaching
the Buddha’s Message within Modernity: Evolution and Diversity of Forms.
July 2002, Munich, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München Institut für Ostasienkunde, “Nantenbō and the
Meiji Transformation of Zen Buddhism” (invited lecture).
September 2001, paper “Nijusseiki ni okeru kaigai zenbukkyō kenkyū no seika to nijūisseiki e no kadai ２０世紀
における海外禅仏教研究の成果と２１世紀への課題 1989〜2001年の動向を中心に (Results of Non-Japanese
Research on Zen Buddhism during the 20th Century and Challenges for the 21st Century, Focusing on New
Trends between 1989 and 2001) at the Summer Seminar of the Society for the Study of Modern Japanese
Buddhist History, in Japanese.
May 2001, Seoul, paper “Linking Chan/Seon/ Zen Figures and Their Texts: Problems and Developments in the
Construction of a Relational Database” at the Conference of the EBTI (Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative).
October 2000, Hiroshima, paper “Zengaku niwa hōhōron ga ariuruka 禅学には方法論がありうるか？” (Is
Methodology Relevant to the Study of Zen?), at the Conference of the Japanese Association for Buddhist
Studies, in Japanese.
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December 1999, Sapporo, lecture “Ima naze zenbukkyōka: Naigai no zenbukkyō kenkyū no shiten kara 今なぜ
禅仏教か 内外の禅仏教研究の視点から” (Why Zen Buddhism Now? From the Perspective of Zen Studies
in and outside Japan), at Hokkai Gakuen University (invited lecture), in Japanese.
December 1999, Sapporo, lecture “Konton no jikaku kara hyōgen e: Zenbukkyō ni okeru kotoba no toraekata no
ichisokumen 混沌の自覚から表現へ 禅仏教に於ける言葉の捉え方の一側面” (From the Awareness of
Primordial Chaos to Expression: One Aspect of Speech from the Perspective of Zen Buddhism), at Hokkai
Gakuen University (invited lecture), in Japanese.
August 1999, Lausanne, paper “From Dokuan Genkō to Kōsen Mujaku: Visions of Sectarian Identity in the
Nagasaki Area” at the XIIth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS).
August 1998, Nara, paper “Meiji no zensō ni okeru dentō no renzoku to hirenzoku: Teizan, Korin to Nantenbō
no baai 明治の禅僧における伝統の連続と非連続 鼎山、虎林と南天棒の場合” (Continuity and Discontinuity
in the Tradition of Meiji Zen Priests: The Cases of Teizan, Korin and Nantenbō), at the Summer Seminar
of the Association for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhism, in Japanese.
May 1998, Kyoto, lecture “Shūtoku no riron to bukkyō no apurōchi 習得の理論と仏教のアプローチ” (The Theory
of Learning and the Buddhist Approach), at the Symposium on Education organized by Kyoto Women’s
University, in Japanese.
March 1998, Uji, paper “Korin Yōshō zenji: Meiji jidai ni mirareru Ōbakushū no katoki to tashūha tono kōryū
虎林曄嘯禪師 明治時代に見られる黄檗宗の過渡期と他宗派との交流” (Korin Yōshō: The Obaku School
During the Transition to Meiji and its Exchanges with other Denominations), at the Research Seminar of
Manpukuji, in Japanese.
November 1997, Kyoto, lecture “Hakuin no isan: Shintairon o chūshin ni sono tayōsei o kangaeru 白隠の遺産—
身体論を中心にその多様性を考察する” (The Legacy of Hakuin: Examining the Multiple Facets of his
Conception of the Body), at Hanazono University for the Kyoto University Center, in Japanese.
November 1995, Philadelphia, paper “Japanese Zen Schools and Modernity: A Plurality of Responses in the
Nineteenth Century” delivered at the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Religion.
March 1995, Kyoto, paper “Monastic Tradition and Lay Practice from the Perspective of Nantenbō: A Response
of Japanese Zen Buddhism to Modernity” for the Twelfth Kyoto Zen Symposium.
March 1994, Boston, paper “Construction and Deconstruction in Zen Buddhism during the Tokugawa Period:
The Challenge to Go beyond Sectarian Consciousness” delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Association
for Asian Studies.
November 1993, Kyoto, paper “Zenrin shūheishū no shisō haikei: Keirin Sūshin to Sonnō Sōeki no shūtō ishiki
『禅林執弊集』の思想背景 桂林崇琛と損翁宗益の宗統意識” (The Intellectual Background of the Anthology
of Attachments to Errors in Zen Monasteries: Keirin Sūshin, Sonnō Sōeki, and their Awareness of Lineage
Consciousness), delivered at the Seminar on Lineage consciousness in Modern Zen Buddhism, in Japanese.
November 1993, Kyoto, paper “Tōrei no chosaku ni kansuru shomondai (sono ichi): Bumo onnanpōkyō chūge to
‘kō’ no shisō 東嶺の著作に関する諸問題（その一） 父母恩難報經註解と「孝」の思想” (Problems Related to
the Works of Tōrei (first part): The Commentary about the Sūtra on the Difficulty to Repay the Debt of
Gratitude towards one’s Parents and the Philosophy of Filial Piety), delivered at the 64th Conference of the
Seminar on Zen Studies, in Japanese.
March 1993, Kyoto, paper “Experience in the Light of Zen Buddhism” delivered at the Tenth Kyoto Zen
Symposium.
December 1992, paper “Hakuin, Tōrei and the revival of Rinzai Zen during the Tokugawa Period,” delivered at
the University of Singapore, in English and in Japanese.
June 1989, Lausanne, paper “Quelques aspects d’un travail de recherche intitulé: Tōrei Enji (1721–1792):
Recherches sur le Traité de l’Inépuisable Lampe du Zen et son influence sur le renouveau de l’École Rinzai
à l’Époque d’Edo” (My Research on Tōrei and His Treatise on the Inexhaustible Lamp of Zen: Its Influence
on the Rinzai School Revival during the Tokugawa Period), delivered at the Rencontres de 3e cycle en
science des religions (Seminar for Doctorate Students), in French.
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February 1989, Geneva, paper “La notion d’expérience religieuse telle qu’elle apparaît dans le bouddhisme de
l’École Zen, in French (The Concept of Religious Experience as it Appears in Zen Buddhism), delivered at
the Séminaire interdisciplinaire d’histoire des religions (Interdisciplinary Seminar in History of Religions),
in French.
June 1987, Kyoto, paper “Concerning an Image of Bodhidharma” delivered at the Maison Franco-japonaise
(French-Japanese Institute) Human Science Forum.
May 1987, Tokyo, paper “Hakuin-zen no genkei: deshi Tōrei o tsūjite no saikentō 白隠禅の原型 弟子東嶺を通じ
ての再検討” (Tōrei: An Attempt to Rediscover the Original Face of Hakuin’s Zen through his Main
Disciple), delivered at the 32nd International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, in Japanese.
RADIO AND TELEVISION PROGRAMS
November 1995, NHK Educative Channel, program “The Spiritual Era” (Kokoro no jidai 心の時代) on
“Hakuin’s Zen” (Hakuin no zen 白隠の禅, in Japanese). A one-hour dialogue with Yanagida Seizan 柳田
聖山. Produced by Tada Minoru 多田穣. Summary in the journal Zenbunka 159, January 1996, pp. 15–29.
July 1993, France Culture, “Agora” program focusing on the translation of T.P. Kasulis’s book Zen Action: Zen
Person, published in French under the title Le Visage Originel ou l’individu dans le bouddhisme zen (Paris
1993: Les Deux Océans). Produced by Olivier Germain-Thomas.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2015
2015
2014
2012
2010
2008
Center for Chinese Studies at the National Central Library in Taipei, Research Grant for Foreign
Scholars in Chinese Studies.
International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Visiting Research Scholar.
University of Hawai‘i Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research Travel Award.
University of Hawai‘i College of Arts & Humanities Dean’s Travel Award.
Faculty Summer Research Award from the University of Hawai‘i Japan Studies Endowment.
Faculty Summer Research Award from the University of Hawai‘i Japan Studies Endowment.
--------- Below are honors and awards received before working at UH -----------1996–97
1992–95
1986–87
1985–86
1983–85
1980–81
Grant from the Hōshaku Institute for Religion and Culture. Postdoctoral research.
Joint grant from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science and the Swiss National
Foundation for Scientific Research (Fonds National Suisse pour la Recherche Scientifique).
Postdoctoral research.
Grant from the Japan Foundation. Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Faculty of Letters,
Department of Philosophy, Kyoto.
Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education. Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Faculty of
Letters, Department of Philosophy, Kyoto.
Grant from the Swiss National Foundation for Scientific Research. Research Fellow, Hanazono
University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Buddhist Studies, Kyoto. Diploma of Buddhist
Studies.
Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education. School of Japanese Language, Tokyo University of
Foreign Languages, Tokyo. Diploma of Japanese Language.
SERVICE
A. Department Service
2012–2014
2008–2012
Chair of the Department of Religion at UH.
Graduate Chair of the Department of Religion at UH.
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B. Thesis Committees
Mori, Camille
Crabtree, Adam W.
Miura, Takashi
Stein, Justin B.
Mitchell, Matthew S.
Spring 2013
Spring 2012
Spring 2010
Spring 2009
Spring 2008.
Committee Chair
C. University Service
Spring 2009–
Member of the Committee of the Hawaii Buddhist Council.
March 2013
Emcee for the symposium “Japan after 3.11: Change and Hope from the Center of a Triple
Disaster” on March 10, 2013 (Sunday) at the Center for Korean Studies. Symposium
cosponsored by the College of Social Sciences, the Department of Religion, the Department of
Women’s Studies, and the Center for Japanese Studies at UHM.
2010–2014
Center for Japanese Studies at UH, member of the Executive Committee.
2010–2014
Center for Japanese Studies at UH, 2010–2014, member of the Graduate Travel Awards
Committee.
--------- Below is university service performed before having been tenured at UH -----------Summer 2008
Completion of the renewal of UH’s Agreement of Cooperation with Taisho University in Tokyo.
Fall 2008
Judge for the attribution of the Hands of Hope and Danny Kaleikini scholarships.
D. Professional Service
Talk titled “Ways to Link the Digital and the Analog Worlds for Research Purposes” for the graduate students in
the Department of Religion, Papers in Progress Session, November 18, 2014.
Host and co-organizer with Professor Ōkubo Ryōshun from Waseda University of a Multidisciplinary Workshop
in Japanese on the theme “Prospects for Overcoming Sectarian Boundaries in Japanese Buddhism: Possible
Contributions of Buddhist Scholarship,” held at the University of Hawai‘i, October 25, 2014.
Organizer of the international conference on “Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and
Future,” convened at the University of Hawai‘i, March 20–21, 2014.
http://www.hawaii.edu/religion/conference.html
Speaker at the workshop “Japanese Religiosities: Traditions in Transformation in the 20th Century” for the
Institute on Infusing Chinese and Japanese Religion, Art, & Literature, at the East-West Center, Honolulu,
August 7, 2013.
Reader of a book proposal for the University of California Press (May 2013).
Convener and Chair of the Panel “Buddhist Constructions of ‘Rational Religion’ across East Asia.” June 2011,
for the XVIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies at Dharma Drum Buddhist
College in Jinshan, Taiwan.
Reader of a book manuscript for the University of Chicago Press (January 2011).
--------- Below is professional service performed before having been tenured at UH -----------Chair and Organizer of the Panel “Who is Whose Heretic? Meiji Buddhism and Its Encounter with ‘Rational
Religion.’” June 2010, for the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) in Tokyo, at Waseda University.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhist History, Tokyo,
2002 to the present.
Organizer of the Panel “The Construction of Universal Religions in Meiji Japan before 1893.” June 2008, for
the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) in Tokyo, at Rikkyo University.
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--------- Below is professional service performed before working at UH -----------Organizer of the Panel “Toward the Rediscovery of Non-sectarian Buddhism.” March 25, 2005, XIXth World
Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, Tokyo.
Organizer of the Panel “Japanese Buddhism since the Seventeenth Century: The Quest for Sectarian Identity.”
August 26, 1999, XIIth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies in Lausanne.
Editor of the 2005 Special Issue on “Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Trends towards Religious Unity in Meiji
Japan” for The Eastern Buddhist, The Eastern Buddhist Society.
Member of the Steering Committee of the Great Buddha Symposium (GBS) of Tōdaiji, Nara, April 2005
through March 2006.
Reader of book manuscripts for Princeton University Press (1993 and 2003) and University of Hawai‘i Press
(1997).
Guest Editor of the Spring 1998 Special Issue on “Meiji Zen” for the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies,
Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya.
Editor of the 1993–94 Special Issue on “Ch’an and Zen Buddhism” for Les Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie no. 7,
Hōbōgirin Research Institute, Kyoto.
E. Community Service
May 2016, Honolulu, presentation for the 11th Annual Hawai‘i Book & Music Festival, Panel 2: Translating the
Buddhist Canon into English.
July 2014, Honolulu, presentation “The Ultimate Question and Some of Its Implications: Organ Donation and Its
Relation with the Tibetan Buddhist Perspectives on Death and Dying” with computer slides for the One
Legacy and the California Transplant Donor Network, in the form of an online Webinar, which drew a
record attendance of over 200 participants.
Work with the local community and the Buddhist Study Center in organizing the international conference on
“Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and Future,” March 20–21, 2014.
Presentation titled “Reflections on the Importance of ‘Going Beyond’ in Hakuin’s Lineage” for the Robert
Aitken Memorial Dharma Study event at the Diamond Sangha in Honolulu, September 8, 2013.
Series of six evening lectures at the Buddhist Study Center of the Honpa Hongwanji in Honolulu on “Who Am
I? The Issue of the Self across Buddhist Traditions,” from October 7 to November 18, 2010.
--------- Below is community service performed before having been tenured at UH -----------November 2007, talk for the Hawaii Association of International Buddhists, following an invitation by retired
UH professor Alfred Bloom.
--------- Below is community service performed before working at UH -----------June 2007 “Using Traps and Snares: From Words to Dreams of Universality,” series of lectures given for the
Summer Seminar on Buddhism, jointly organized by the University of New Mexico and the Bodhi Manda
Zen Center in Jemez Springs, NM.
June 2001 “The Development of the Modern Zen Schools: Ten Stages from the Tokugawa Period to Meiji,”
series of lectures given for the Summer Seminar on Buddhism, jointly organized by the University of New
Mexico and the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez Springs, NM.
November 1999, Kyoto, Kōin Research Group at the French-Japanese Institute, “Tōrei and His Interpretation of
Shinto” (Tōrei et son interprétation du shintō), in French.
December 1998, Moriyama, Moriyamashi yasugun kinrō fukushi kaikan, “Bukkyō to kizuki 仏教と気づき”
(Buddhism and Awareness), in Japanese.
November 1997, Kyoto, lecture for the Monthly Ceremony at Kyoto Women’s University, “Bukkyō to kizuki 仏
教と気づき” (Buddhism and Awareness), in Japanese.
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July 1992, Fleurier, Switzerland, Centre de rencontres spirituelles et de méditation, seminar “Les Dix Tableaux
du Dressage du Buffle et leurs implications pour le cheminement intérieur” (The Ten Oxherding Pictures
and their Implications for the Inner Path), in French.
CLASSES TAUGHT AT UH
REL 150
REL 203
REL 204
REL 207
REL 394
REL 475
REL 490
REL 625
REL 661C
REL 661D
REL 699
Introduction to the World’s Major Religions (Spring 2008).
Understanding Chinese Religions (Fall 2016).
Understanding Japanese Religions (Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012,
Fall 2013).
Understanding Buddhism (Fall 2008, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2014,
Spring 2016).
On Death and Dying (Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016)
Seminar on Buddhism (Fall 2010, Fall 2016).
Buddhism in Japan (Fall 2007, Fall 2008).
Applied Methods in the Study of Religion (Fall 2010, Fall 2011).
Japanese Religions Seminar (Spring 2008, Spring 2009).
Seminar on East Asian Buddhism (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring
2016, Spring 2016).
Guided Reading and Research (Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2009).
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Religion (AAR) since 1994
Association for Asian Studies (AAS) since 1993
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) since 2000
International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) since 1992
Society for the Study of Japanese Religions (SSJR) since 1994
Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhist History (Kindai nihon bukkyōshi kenkyūkai) since 1998.
LANGUAGES
Speaking: French (native). Near-native fluency in English and Japanese. Increasingly fluent in Chinese.
Conversant in German, Spanish, and Italian.
Reading: French, English, classical and modern Japanese, classical and modern Chinese, German,
Spanish, Italian, Sanskrit (basic), Pāli (basic).
Writing: French, English, Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian.
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