The Eastern Buddhist, Third Series, vol. 5, nos. 1 & 2
John Lo
Dear PMJS Members,
We are happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Eastern Buddhist (Third Series, vol. 5, nos. 1 & 2). Its contents may be viewed and freely downloaded at https://ebs.otani.ac.jp/journal.html. Or, for your convenience, the links to the respective articles and book reviews are provided below.
It is a double issue containing seven articles focused on the theme of “Modalities of Secrecy in Japanese Buddhism.” There is also a “Views and Reviews” essay by Victoria Yoshimura on her experiences as a foreign, female Buddhist priest in rural Japan, four book reviews, and the latest installment of “Japanese Books on Buddhism” by Professor Robert F. Rhodes.
Frontispiece
Contemplation on the Syllable A from the Tachikawa-ryū giki zankan frontispiece
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001502
ARTICLES
Feature: Modalities of Secrecy in Japanese Buddhism
Introduction
Marta Sanvido
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001503
The Field of Secret Transmissions in Medieval Japan
Abe Yasurō
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001504
Secret Knowledge on Childbirth and Women’s Reproductive Health
in Early Medieval Japan
Anna Andreeva
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001505
Sexual Metaphor in Yōsai’s Ingoshū
Yoneda Mariko
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001506
Dōgen’s Quest for the Secrets of Zen
William M. Bodiford
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001507
Lines of Secrecy: Buddhist Diagrammatology and Zhaozhou’s Mu
Koan in Sōtō Zen Kirigami
Marta Sanvido
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001508
Secrecy as a Social Process: Concealing, Revealing, and Classifying
in Covert Shin Buddhism
Clark Chilson
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001509
The Language of Secrecy: Allegoresis in Medieval Japanese Culture
Susan Blakeley Klein
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001510
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
Female, Foreign, and in the Firing Line: The Adventures of a British
Female Priest in Rural Japan
Victoria Yoshimura
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001511
BOOK REVIEWS
William S. Waldron. Making Sense of Mind Only: Why Yogācāra
Buddhism Matters (A. Charles Muller)
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001512
Aaron P. Proffitt. Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism
(Robert F. Rhodes)
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001513
Jonathan S. Watts. Engaged Buddhism in Japan, Volume 1: An Engaged
Buddhist History of Japan from the Ancient to the Modern and
Engaged Buddhism in Japan, Volume 2: A New Socially Engaged
Buddhism in 21st Century Japan; From Intimate Care to Social
Ethics ( Jeff Wilson)
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001514
Bret W. Davis, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy
( Jason M. Wirth)
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001515
JAPANESE BOOKS ON BUDDHISM
Japanese Books on Buddhism Published in 2024
Robert F. Rhodes
https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2001516
(Apologies for Crossposting )
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