Center Research Fellows.

• Carl Bielefeldt (Religious Studies), Faculty Fellow, for the Sôtô Zen Text Project (autumn term)
• Stephan Bokenkamp (Indiana), Visiting Fellow, working on Taoist texts
• Egil Fronsdal (Sati Center for Buddhist Studies), Affiliate Scholar, working on early Mahayana Buddhist texts
• Henry Glassman (Religious Studies), Doctoral Fellow, for a project on women in medieval Japanese Buddhism
• Mark Gonnerman (Religious Studies), Doctoral Fellow, for a project on Gary Snyder as religious thinker
• Hashimoto Eijû (Komazawa University), Visiting Researcher, working on Sôtô Zen texts (spring term)
• Linda Hess (UC-Davis and Religious Studies), Visiting Fellow, working on Indian religions
• Richard Payne (Institute for Buddhist Studies), Affiliate Scholar, working on Japanese esoteric Buddhism
  

Student Colloquium

James Robson, "Excavating the Strata of Mt. Nanyue's Religious History"
Irene Lin, ""Protectors of the Boundary: Divine Children in Medieval Japanese Buddhism"
Lisa Grumbach, "The Hunting Rituals of Suwa Jinja: Kami Worship, Buddhism and Negotiation over Religious Practice in Medieval Japan"
Will Hansen, "Hirata Atsutane's Rhetoric of Ritual"
David Quinter, "Kûkai before China: Historical Stories and Hagiographies"
Julius Tsai, "Ecstatic Flight and Kingly Journey Journey in Early China"
Nancy Stalker, "Onisaburô and the Political Role of Omotokyô"

Buddhist Studies Seminar Lectures

"Buddhist Economies -- Material and Symbolic"

Fabio Rambelli (Williams College), "The Economy of Salvation: Capital, Value, Production and Salvation in Medieval Japan" (January 25)
John Kieschnick (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), " A Brief History of the Buddhist Rosary in China" (February 1)
Jeffrey Mass (Stanford), "Priests and Property and Other Topics" (February 8)
Allan Grapard (UC-Santa Barbara) "The Hiko-san Festival" (February 15)
Gregory Schopen (UCLA), "Working Class Men and the Socially Broken in Indian Buddhist Monasteries" (March 8)
William Bodiford (UCLA), "Grounded Religion: Patterns of Land Exchange in Medieval Japan" (April 5)
Griffith Foulk, "The Spiritual and Material Economy of Merit Dedication in Japanese Zen" (April 19)
Hashimoto Hiroyuki (Chiba University), "Capitalism of Etoki" (April 22)

SCBS Lectures

Robert Duquenne (Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient), "Japanese Legends about Fudô Myôô" (February 25)

Robert Duquenne, "Daemonology in Pediatrics: The Kumaratantra in Chinese Buddhist Garb" (February 29)

Johannes Bronkhorst (Lausanne), "Is There Philsophy in India?" (March 5)

Conference

"Buddhist Priests, Kings, and Marginals" (May 28-30, Evans-Wentz Conference, with Religious Studies)

Abe Ryuichi, "Mantras, Outcasts, and Emperorship"
Abe Yasurô, "Background and Motivation of Tengu zôshi: Jien, Keisei, and The Demonic World"
David Bialock, "Beggars, Outcasts, and Historical Narrative in Medieval Japan"
Bernard Faure, "Medieval Japanese Buddhism and the Imperial Regalia"
Allan Grapard, "Sacred Kingship and Courtesans"
Thomas Hare, "The Emperor and His Noh Clothes"
Hosokawa Ryoichi, "Emperor Go-Daigo's Royal Power and Ritsu Monks: Monkan, Sonkyô, and Kyôen"
Iyanaga Nobumi, "Tantrism and Reactionary Ideology in East Asia and Japan"
Susan Matisof, ""The Log Cabin Emperor: Marginality and the legend of Oguri Hangan"
Charles Orzech, "Images of Empire: Re-negotiating Religion and Kingship in the T'ang"
Fabio Rambelli, "The Emperor's New Clothes: Processes of Resignification of the Seven-Day Imperial Ritual (goshichinichi no mishihô) in Japanese History"
Brian Ruppert, ""Beginning Buddha: The Economy of Rulership in the Latter Seven day Rite (goshichinichi mishihô) and the Offering of Alms-Coins (fuse-zeni)"
Sakurai Yoshiro, "The Myth of Royal Authority and Shinbutsu Shugô"
John Strong, "Asoka's Wives and the Ambiguities of Buddhist Kingship"