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Koichi
Shinohara
Curriculum
Vitae
Dept.
of Religious Studies
Yale University
451 College St.
P. O. Box 208287
New Haven, CT 06520-8287
E-mail: koichi.shinohara@yale.edu
Education:
Bachelor
of Letters, University of Tokyo, Sociology, 1965
Master of Letters, University of Tokyo, Religious studies,
1967
Ph. D., Columbia University, 1977
Employment
History:
1970-1971
Instructor, Department of Religion, Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wisconsin, U.S.A.
1972-1978
Lecturer, Department of Religion, McMaster University, Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada.
1978-1982
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster
University
1982-1991
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster
University.
1990-1991
Special Lecturer, Department of Religious Studies, University
of Toronto.
1991-2004
Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University
2001-2004
Professor (status only), University of Toronto at Mississauga
2002-
Senior lecturer, Yale University
Publications:
a)
co-authored book:
Speaking
of Monks: Essays on Religious Biographies in Asia. With
Phyllis Granoff. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1992.
b)
co-edited books:
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (eds.), Monks and
Magicians: Religious Biographies in Asia. Mosaic Press,
1988.
Gregory Schopen and Koichi Shinohara (eds.), From Benares
to Beijing: Essays in Buddhism and Chinese Religions in Honour
of Dr. Jan Yün-hua, Mosaic Press, 1991.
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (eds.), Other Selves:
Biography and Autobiography in Cross-cultural Perspective.
Mosaic Press, 1994.
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (eds.), Pilgrims,
Patrons and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions,
University of British Columbia Press. 2003.
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (eds.) Images in
Asian Religions, edited by Phyllis Granoff, Koichi Shinohara.
The University of British Columbia Press, 2004.
In
Preparation:
Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (eds). The Moment
of Death: Comparative Perpspectives. Papers from a conference
at the University of Toronto and McMaster University, October
2002.
c)
articles and book chapters:
"'Adustment
to the world' and rationalization' in Max Weber's study of
Chinese tradition," Studies in Religion. Vol.
8, no. 1 (winter 1979), pp. 27-34.
"Buddhism
and Problem of modernity in East Asia: some exploratory comments
based on the example of Takayama ChogyE," Japanese
Journal of Religious Studies. Vol. 8, nos. 1-2 (March/
June, 1981), pp. 35-49.
"Religion
and political order in Nichiren's Buddhism," Japanese
Journal of Religious Studies. Vol. 8, nos. 3-4 (September/
December, 1981), pp. 225-235.
"Buddhism
and Confucianism in Ch'i-sung's Essay on teaching (Yüan-tao),
Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 9 (December,
1982), pp. 401-422.
"Religion
and economic development in Japan: An exploration with a focus
on the institution of ie," James Finn (ed.), Global
Economics and Religion, New Bruswich (U.S.A.): Transaction
Books, 1983. pp. 167-178.
"'Adjustment'
and tension' in Max Weber's interpretation of Confucianism,"
Comparative Civilizations Review. No. 15 (fall, 1986),
43-61.
"Two
sources of Chinese Buddhist biographies: stupa inscriptions
and miracle stories," Monks and Magicians, 1988,
pp. 94-128.
"The
Ji shenzhou sanbao gantong lu: exploratory notes,"
Kalyana-Mitta: Professor Hajime Nakamura Felicitation
Volume, edited by V. N. Jha. Delhi, 1991. pp. 203-224.
"The
Maitreya Image in Shicheng and Guanding's biography of Zhiyi,"
From Benares to Beijing: Essays in Buddhism and Chinese
Religions in Honor of Dr. Jan Yün-hua. pp. 203-228.
"Daoxuan's
collection of miracle stories about `supernatural monks' (Shenseng
gantong lu): an analysis of its sources", Chung-hwa
Buddhist Journal, no.3 (April, 1990), pp.319-389.
"Structure
and communitas in Po Chü-yi's tomb inscriptions",
Chung-hwa Buddhist Journal, no. 4 (July, 1991)(pp.
379-450).
"The
Ruijing lu: An analysis of its sources", The Journal
of the International Association for Buddhist Studies,
Vol. 14, no. 1 (1991), pp. 73-154.
"Biographies
of Eminent Monks' in a comparative perspective: the function
of the holy in medieval Chinese Buddhism", Chung-hwa
Buddhist Journal, no. 7 (Fall, 1994), pp. 477-500.
"Zhiyuan's
autobiographical essay, `The Master of the Mean,'" Other
Selves: Biography and Autobiography in Cross-cultural Perspective.
pp. 35-72.
"Passages
and transmission in Tianhuang Daowu's biographies",
Other Selves: Biography and Autobiography in Cross-cultural
Perspective. pp. 132-149.
"Buddhist
precepts in medieval Chinese Buddhist biographies of monks,"
Buddhist Behavioral Codes and the Modern World, ed.
by Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Sandra A. Wawrytko. Greenwood Press,
1995. pp. 75-94.
"Ta-hui's
instruction to Tseng-k'ai: Buddhist `freedom' in the Neo-Confucian
context," Meeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religioius
Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought, ed.
by Irene Bloom and Joshua Fogel. Columbia Univesity Press,
1997. pp. 144-174.
"Evolution
of Chan biographies," Bulletin de l'école
francçaise d'extrême orient (1998). 85:
305-324.
"Changing
roles for miraculous images in medieval Chinese Buddhism:
a study of the miraculous images section of Daoxuan's ‘Ji
shenzhou sanbao gantonglu’," Images, Miracles,
and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions, edited by
Richard Davis, Westview Press. 1998. pp. 141-188.
"Dynastic
Politics and Miraculous Images: The Example of Zhuli (544-623)
of the Changlesi temple in Yangzhou," Images, Miracles,
and Authority in Asian Religious Traditions, pp. 189-206.
"Illness
and Self: Zhiyuan's Two Autobiograpical Essays", Self,
Soul and Body in Religious Experience, ed. by Albert
I. Baumgarten with Jan Assmann and Guy G. Stroumsa. 1998,
Leiden, London, Boston, Köln: Brill. pp. 276-297.
"Gao
Li's discovery of a miraculous image: the evolution of Ashoka
Image stories in medieval China," The Flowering of
a Foreign Faith: New Studies in Chinese Buddhist Art.
Marg Publications. 1998. pp. 20-27.
"From
Local History to Universal History: The Construction of the
Sung T'ien-t'ai Lineage", Buddhism in the Sung, ed. by
Peter N. Gregory and Daniel A. Getz, Jr. Honolulu: Kuroda
Institute, 1999. pp. 524-576
"Chen
Xunyu's Records of Mt. Lu': A Literary Scholar's Construction
of a Buddhist Sacred in Medieval China," Journal
Asiatique/Asiatische Studien, LIII, 4, 1999, pp. 937-964.
"The
Kasaya robe of the past Buddha Kasyapa in the miraculous instruction
given to the Vinaya master Daoxuan (596-667)", Chung-hua
Buddhist Journal, no. 12 (2000). pp. 299-367.
"The
Iconic' and aniconic' Buddha visualization in medieval Chinese
buddhism", Representation in Religion: Studies in
Honour of Moshe Barasch, edited by Jan Assmann and Albert
I. Baumgarten. Brill, 2001. pp. 133-148.
"The
Story of the Buddha's begging bowl: Imagining a biography
and sacred places," Pilgrims, Patrons and Place:
Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions, edited by Phyllis
Granoff, Koichi Shinohara. The University of British Columbia
Press, 2003. pp. 68-107.
"Image
makers in Xuanzang’s Records of the Western Regions
and Daoxuan’s mircle story collection,” Jainism
and Early Buddhism: Essays in Honour of Padmanabh S. Jaini,
Olle Qvanstrom (ed.). Asian Humanities Press, 2003. pp. 609-620.
"Stories
of Miraculous Images and Paying Respect to the Three Jewels:
A Discourse of Image Worship in the Seventh Century China,"
Images in Asian Religions, edited by Phyllis Granoff,
Koichi Shinohara. The University of British Columbia Press.
pp. 180-222.
Accepted for Publication:
“The
Moment of Death in Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentary”
in The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations.
Edited by Bryan Cuevas and Jackie Stone
“Taking
a Meal at a Lay Supporter’s Residence: the Evolution
of the Practice in Chinese vinaya commentgary.” The
Buddhist Monastery. Edited by Chen Jinhua. Wisdom Publications.
“The
Mystery of Zhulin (“Bamboo Forest”) Monastery:
Biography, Miracle Story, and Sacred Places.” Sacred
Place in East Asia. Edited by Chen Jinhua, James Benn,
and James Robson. Wisdom Publications.
In
Preparation:
“The
Moment of Death in Biographies of Eminent Monks.” Phyllis
Granoff and Koichi Shinohara (eds). The Moment of Death:
Comparative Perpspectives.
d)
Translation from primary sources
“A
Chinese Pilgrim in India,” Buddhist Scriptures. Edited
by Donald Lopez. Penguin Classics. 2004. pp. 78-83.
In
preparation:
"The
Jade Garden in the Forest of Dharma", 100 fascicles.
Bukkyo Dendo kyokai, Tokyo and Berkeley, California.
e)
Encyclopaedia and dictionary entries
"Prophet",
"prophecy," and "charisma" in Hori Ichiro
and Oguchi Iichi (eds.) Dictionary of Religious Studies,
University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo, 1973 (in Japanese).
"Daoxuan"
in the Encyclopaedia of Monasticism, in William M.
Johnson (ed.).
e)
Conference proceedings:
"Inscriptional
sources of Chinese Buddhist biographies", Proceedings
of the XXXII International Congress for Asian and North African
Studies Hamburg (Stuttgart, 1992), pp. 643-644.
"The
Tiantai biographies in the Fozu tongji: some comments on the
nature of sectarian Buddhist biographies in Song China",
Proceedings of the XXXIII International Congress for Asian
and North African Studies Toronto (New York, Edwin Mellon
Press).
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