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).