Language and Discourse
in the Transformation of
Medieval Japanese Buddhism

Friday, 9/14:

3:00-4:00 p.m. Richard Payne. "Ritual Uses of Language." (Luis Gomez)

4:30-5:30 p.m. Ishida Hoyu. "Shinjin and Satori in the Here and Now: Flowers Yet Fall as People Lament." (Carl Bielefeldt)

7:30-8:30 p.m. Dale Wright. "Metaphor and Theory of Cultural Change: In Search of Skillful Means for Understanding Kamakura Buddhism." (Luis Gomez)

Saturday, 9/15:

8:30-9:30 a.m. Jacqueline Stone. "'Not Mere Words': Perspectives on the Language of the Lotus Sutra in Medieval Japan." (Jan Nattier)

9:45-10:45 a.m. Mark Blum. "The Sangoku-Mappô Construct: Buddhism, Nationalism, and History in Medieval Japan." (John McRae)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Mitsuya Dake. Title to be announced. (Richard Payne)

1:30-2:30 p.m. Dan Leighton. "Dôgen's Dream Parables: Lotus Sutra Influences on Dôgen's Discourse." (Jan Nattier)

3:00-4:00 p.m. Ryuichi Abe. "Myôe's Mount Lanka: Mantra, Landscape, and Medieval Japanese Poetics." (Bernard Faure)

4:30-5:30 p.m. Mark Unno. "The Body of Time and the Discourse of Precepts." (John McRae)

7:30-8:30 p.m. Fabio Rambelli. "Materiality and Performativity of Sacred Texts in Medieval Japan." (Bernard Faure)

Sunday, 9/16:

9:00-9:45 a.m. Steven Heine (in absentia). "Koans in the Dôgen Tradition: How and Why Dôgen Does What He Does with Koans." (Carl Bielefeldt)

10:00-11:00 a.m. Concluding Discussion (Jose Cabezon)