Institute Readings

Prior to the Institute, participants will be required to read: Donald W. Mitchell and Sarah H. Jacoby’s Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience; Ellison Banks Findley’s edited volume, Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal; and Karma Lekshe’s edited volume, Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities. These texts will afford participants a shared foundation for engaging the readings selected by Institute presenting faculty for their individual sessions.

Institute Bibliography

The institute bibliography provides an overview of scholarship on Buddhism relevant to the themes of the institute.

Institute Bibliography (pdf)

Daily Readings

The daily readings include content- and method-focused scholarly works, primary text translations, and introductory material suitable for assignment to students.

Daily Readings listed below are subject to revision

JUNE 5

Peter Hershock: Required: Clarke, Shayne (2014). The Rhinoceros in the Room: Monks and Nuns and Their Families. In Shayne Clark. Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms, pp. 1-17. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Hershock, Peter D. (2021). Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future. London: ‎Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 19-41. Suggested: Bailey, Greg and Mabbett, Ian (2003). Introduction. In The Sociology of Early Buddhism, pp. 1-12. G. Bailey & I. Mabbett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

JUNE 6

Pascale Engelmajer Required: "The Agañña Sutta". Dīgha Nikāya III 80-98. Gethin, R. (trans.) Sayings of the Buddha: New Translations from the Pāli Nikāyas. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008. Focus on p. 116-128. “Uggaha, a Householder.” Anguttara Nikāya III 36-37: Hare, E.M. (trans.) Book of Gradual Sayings. PTS: 1932 Wendy Doniger & Brian K. Smith (trans.), The Laws of Manu. Penguin Classics, 1991. Brihaspati Smriti xxiv, 6: Jolly (trans.), Minor Law Books, Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: 1889 Recommended: Findly, Elison Banks (2003). Dāna: Giving and Getting in Pali Buddhism. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 68-86 Collett, Alice (2016). Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter Ten Engelmajer, Pascale (2020). "Like Mother Her Only Child: Mothering in the Pāli Canon", Open Theology; 6: 88–103.

JUNE 7

Wendi Adamek: Yu, Chun-fang (2020). Chinese Buddhism: a Thematic History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 29-69, 218-239.

JUNE 8

Peter Hershock and Wendi Adamek: Excerpts: The Vimalakīrti Sutra Chapter 7 The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā of the Lion’s Roar Chapters 2 and 12-15 Click Here for access to The Vimalakīrti Sutra and The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā The Lotus Sutra Chapter 12 Click Here for access to The Lotus Sutra

JUNE 12

Melody Rod-ari: Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum (1999). “Women in the Life of the Buddha: Ancient Literary and Indian Pictorial Sources." Oriental Art 44, 4 (Winter 1998/99): 30–38. Schopen, Gregory (1988). "On Monks, Nuns, and 'Vulgar' Practices: The Introduction of the Image Cult into Indian Buddhism." Artibus Asiae 49, 1–2 (1988/89): 153–168. Gordon, Alec and Napat Sirisambhand (2002). “Evidence for Thailand’s Missing Social History: Thai Women in Old Mural Paintings." International Review of Social History 47, 2 (Aug. 2002): 261–275. McGill, Forrest (1997). "Painting the Great Life." In Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, edited by Juliane Schober, 195–217. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Highly Recommended: Andaya, Barbara Watson (2002). “Localising the Universal: Women, Motherhood and the Appeal of Early Theravada Buddhism.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 33, no.1 (February 2002): 1–30. Scott, Rachelle M. (2010). “Buddhism, miraculous powers, and gender: Rethinking the stories of Theravāda nuns.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 33, no. 1-2 (2010/2011): 489-511.

JUNE 13

Wendi Adamek: Required: Adamek, Wendi L. (2021). Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan. University of Hamburg Press, pp. 328-348. Wong, Dorothy (2000). “Women as Buddhist Art Patrons During the Northern and Southern Dynasties." In Wu Hung, ed., Between Han and Tang: Religious Art and Archaeology of a Transformative Period. Beijing: Wenwu Press (2000), 535–566. Optional: McNair, Amy (2000). “On the Patronage by Tang-Dynasty Nuns at Wanfo Grotto, Longmen." Artibus Asiae 59: 3-4 (2000), 161-188. Lingley, Kate (2012). “Lady Yuchi in the First Person: Patronage, History, and Voice in the Guyang Cave." Early Medieval China 18 (2012), 25-47.

John Szostak: Fister, Patricia (1990). "Women Artists in Traditional Japan," in Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting (Honolulu: UH Press,), pp. 219-240 Dix, Monika (2009). “Saint or Demon? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives,” in The Body in Asia (Oxford: Berghahn Books), pp.43-58

JUNE 14

Paola Zamperini: Required (all primary sources): Anonymous female author, “Fifth Woman Wang,” pp. 135-167, in Wilt Idema, translator, Heroines of Jiangyong. Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script, University of Washington Press, 2009. Beata Grant and Wilt Idema, editors, “Buddhist Nuns,” pp. 153-158, and “Nuns,” pp. 319-333, in The Red Brush. Writing Women of Imperial China, Harvard University Press, 2004. Ling Mengchu, “Zhao the Nun Drugs a Beauty into a Stupor,” pp. 115-140, and “Scholar Wenren Shows His Prowess at Cuifu Nunnery,” pp. 727-755, in Slapping the Table in Amazement. A Ming Dynasty Story Collection, University of Washington Press, 2018. Highly Recommended (secondary sources): About Buddhist female authors in early modern China Grant, Beata (2001). “Behind the Empty Gate: Buddhist Nun-Poets in Late-Ming and Qing China” in Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Grant, Beata (2012). "Patterns of Female Religious Experience in Qing Dynasty Popular Literature," Journal of Chinese Religions 23 (1995), pp. 29-58. Reprinted in Vincent Groosaert, ed., Critical Readings on Religions of China, (Leiden: Brill), Vol. 4, pp. 1313-1345. About Women’s script 女书 “Reality,” pp.542-566, in The Red Brush. Writing Women of Imperial China, Harvard University Press, 2004 Ann McLaren, Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: Nüshu Narratives, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. Issue 1, September 1998 Recommended documentaries about women’s script Nü-Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China Hidden Letters

JUNE 15

Keller Kimbrough: Required (all primary sources): Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2008). A History of Seiganji in the Capital (excerpt from the ca. 1565-1595 Rakuyo Seiganji engi), in Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan, 245-66 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies). Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2008). "Izumi Shikibu's Vow" (excerpt from the sixteenth-century Akagi Bunko manuscript of The Tale of Jōruri), in Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan, 277-80 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies). Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2013). Sayohime (seventeenth-century Kyoto University manuscript), in Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater, 161-90 (New York: Columbia University Press). Optional (more primary sources): Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2018). The Tale of the Fuji Cave (Akagi Bunko manuscript of 1603), in Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, ed. Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press), 197-216. Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2018). Isozaki (seventeenth-century Keiō University Library manuscript), in Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, ed. Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press), 217-32. Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2007). Chūjōhime (woodblock-printed text of 1651), in Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press), 1138-50 Further Supplementary Readings (secondary sources): Faure, Bernard (2003). The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (Princeton: Princeton University Press). Kimbrough, R. Keller (2008). Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies). Meeks, Lori (2010). Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press). Ruch, Barbara ed. (2002). Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies).

JUNE 20

Reiko Ohnuma: Required: Cole, Alan (2006). "Buddhism," in Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions, ed. by D. S. Browning, M. C. Green, and J. Witte, Jr. (New York: Columbia University Press,), pp. 299-366 [including only pp. 299-351]. Ohnuma, Reiko (2012). “‘What Here is the Merit, May That Be For My Parents’: Motherhood on the Ground," Chapter 8 of Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford University Press), pp. 180-203. Optional: Scheible, Kristin (2014). Review of Reiko Ohnuma, Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2012), published on H-Buddhism (January 2014), pp. 1-3.

JUNE 21

Jessey Choo: Dorothy C. Wong. 2022. “Empress Wu’s Impact Beyond China: Kingship and Female Sovereigns.” In Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Antonino Forte (1940–2006), edited by Jinhua Chen, 199–236. Singapore: World Scholastic Publishers. Hughes, April D. 2021. “Wu Zhao as the Worldly Saviors Maitreya and Pure Light” and “Wu Zhao as a Wheel-Turning King and the World Savior Moonlight.” In Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. 80–110. United States: University of Hawaii Press, 2021

JUNE 22

Jessica Starling: Jaffe, Richard. “A Refutation of Clerical Marriage.” Religions of Japan in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 78–86. Starling, Jessica (2015). "Family Temples and Religious Learning in Japanese Temple Buddhism." Journal of Global Buddhism 16 (2015): 144-156. Rowe, Mark (2017). "Charting Known Territory: Female Buddhist Priests." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 44/1: 75–101

Lisa Battaglia: Required: Crosby, Kate (2014). “Women in Monasticism,” in Theravada Buddhism: Continuity, Diversity, and Identity. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 218-237. Seeger, Martin (2006). “The Bhikkhunī-Ordination Controversy in Thailand, The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 29 no. 1, pp. 155-183. Optional: Lehrer, Tyler A. (2019). “Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka's Contemporary Bhikkhunī Ordination Dispute," Buddhist Studies Review, 36 no. 1 pp. 99-121. (Since Findly’s Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women is on the assigned reading list for the Institute, I would point participants to the following two chapters: "Voramai Kabilsingh: the first Thai bhikkhunī," by M Batchelor; and “Chatsumarn Kabilsingh: advocate for a bhikkhunī sangha in Thailand," by M Batchelor.)

JUNE 26

Lisa Battaglia: Required: Gajaweera, Nalika (2020). “The Mothers of Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary,” Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 21, pp. 187-204. Scott, Rachelle M. (2014). “Pawinee Bunkhun: The Life of a Thai Buddhist Upasika,” in Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners, ed. Todd Lewis. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 147-156. Optional: Battaglia, Lisa (2015). “Becoming Bhikkhunī?" Mae Chis and the Global Women's Ordination Movement," Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 22, 2015, pp. 25-62. (Since Findly’s Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women is on the assigned reading list for the Institute, I would point participants to the following chapter: “Women in between: Becoming religious persons in Thailand," by M L Falk.)

JUNE 27

Sarah Jacoby: Mitchell, Donald W., and Sarah H. Jacoby (2014). Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience, Oxford University Press, ch. 6 Gyatso, Janet and Hanna Havnevik (2005). Women in Tibet (New York: Columbia University Press), introduction Jacoby, Sarah (2014). Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro (New York: Columbia University Press), ch. 3 "Dakini Dialogues" Padma’tsho (Baimacuo), & Jacoby, S. (2020). Gender Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’ Terms. Religions (Basel, Switzerland), 11(10), 543.

JUNE 28

Jin Y. Park: Required: Park, Jin Y. (2014). “Translator’s Introduction.” Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, pp. 1-26. Optional: Cho, Eunsu, ed. (2011). Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality. Albany: State University of New York Press. Park, Jin Y. (2018). Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Park, Jin Y. (2022). “Gender and Dharma Lineage: Nuns in Korean Sŏn Buddhism.” In Albert Welter, Steven Heine, and Jin Y. Park (eds), Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia, pp. 239-262. Albany: State University of New York Press. Park, Jin Y. trans. (2014). Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun: Essays by Zen Master Kim Iryŏp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

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Institute Readings

Prior to the Institute, participants will be required to read: Donald W. Mitchell and Sarah H. Jacoby’s Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience; Ellison Banks Findley’s edited volume, Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision, Renewal; and Karma Lekshe’s edited volume, Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities. These texts will afford participants a shared foundation for engaging the readings selected by Institute presenting faculty for their individual sessions.

Institute Bibliography

The institute bibliography provides an overview of scholarship on Buddhism relevant to the themes of the institute.

Institute Bibliography (pdf)

Daily Readings

The daily readings include content- and method-focused scholarly works, primary text translations, and introductory material suitable for assignment to students.

Daily Readings listed below are subject to revision

JUNE 5

Peter Hershock: Required: Clarke, Shayne (2014). The Rhinoceros in the Room: Monks and Nuns and Their Families. In Shayne Clark. Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms, pp. 1-17. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Hershock, Peter D. (2021). Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future. London: ‎Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 19-41. Suggested: Bailey, Greg and Mabbett, Ian (2003). Introduction. In The Sociology of Early Buddhism, pp. 1-12. G. Bailey & I. Mabbett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

JUNE 6

Pascale Engelmajer Required: "The Agañña Sutta". Dīgha Nikāya III 80-98. Gethin, R. (trans.) Sayings of the Buddha: New Translations from the Pāli Nikāyas. Oxford World’s Classics, 2008. Focus on p. 116-128. “Uggaha, a Householder.” Anguttara Nikāya III 36-37: Hare, E.M. (trans.) Book of Gradual Sayings. PTS: 1932 Wendy Doniger & Brian K. Smith (trans.), The Laws of Manu. Penguin Classics, 1991. Brihaspati Smriti xxiv, 6: Jolly (trans.), Minor Law Books, Sacred Books of the East. Oxford: 1889 Recommended: Findly, Elison Banks (2003). Dāna: Giving and Getting in Pali Buddhism. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 68-86 Collett, Alice (2016). Lives of Early Buddhist Nuns: Biographies as History. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter Ten Engelmajer, Pascale (2020). "Like Mother Her Only Child: Mothering in the Pāli Canon", Open Theology; 6: 88–103.

JUNE 7

Wendi Adamek: Yu, Chun-fang (2020). Chinese Buddhism: a Thematic History. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. 29-69, 218-239.

JUNE 8

Peter Hershock and Wendi Adamek: Excerpts: The Vimalakīrti Sutra Chapter 7 The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā of the Lion’s Roar Chapters 2 and 12-15 Click Here for access to The Vimalakīrti Sutra and The Sutra of Queen Śrīmālā The Lotus Sutra Chapter 12 Click Here for access to The Lotus Sutra

JUNE 12

Melody Rod-ari: Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum (1999). “Women in the Life of the Buddha: Ancient Literary and Indian Pictorial Sources." Oriental Art 44, 4 (Winter 1998/99): 30–38. Schopen, Gregory (1988). "On Monks, Nuns, and 'Vulgar' Practices: The Introduction of the Image Cult into Indian Buddhism." Artibus Asiae 49, 1–2 (1988/89): 153–168. Gordon, Alec and Napat Sirisambhand (2002). “Evidence for Thailand’s Missing Social History: Thai Women in Old Mural Paintings." International Review of Social History 47, 2 (Aug. 2002): 261–275. McGill, Forrest (1997). "Painting the Great Life." In Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia, edited by Juliane Schober, 195–217. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Highly Recommended: Andaya, Barbara Watson (2002). “Localising the Universal: Women, Motherhood and the Appeal of Early Theravada Buddhism.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 33, no.1 (February 2002): 1–30. Scott, Rachelle M. (2010). “Buddhism, miraculous powers, and gender: Rethinking the stories of Theravāda nuns.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 33, no. 1-2 (2010/2011): 489-511.

JUNE 13

Wendi Adamek: Required: Adamek, Wendi L. (2021). Practicescapes and the Buddhists of Baoshan. University of Hamburg Press, pp. 328-348. Wong, Dorothy (2000). “Women as Buddhist Art Patrons During the Northern and Southern Dynasties." In Wu Hung, ed., Between Han and Tang: Religious Art and Archaeology of a Transformative Period. Beijing: Wenwu Press (2000), 535–566. Optional: McNair, Amy (2000). “On the Patronage by Tang-Dynasty Nuns at Wanfo Grotto, Longmen." Artibus Asiae 59: 3-4 (2000), 161-188. Lingley, Kate (2012). “Lady Yuchi in the First Person: Patronage, History, and Voice in the Guyang Cave." Early Medieval China 18 (2012), 25-47.

John Szostak: Fister, Patricia (1990). "Women Artists in Traditional Japan," in Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting (Honolulu: UH Press,), pp. 219-240 Dix, Monika (2009). “Saint or Demon? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives,” in The Body in Asia (Oxford: Berghahn Books), pp.43-58

JUNE 14

Paola Zamperini: Required (all primary sources): Anonymous female author, “Fifth Woman Wang,” pp. 135-167, in Wilt Idema, translator, Heroines of Jiangyong. Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women’s Script, University of Washington Press, 2009. Beata Grant and Wilt Idema, editors, “Buddhist Nuns,” pp. 153-158, and “Nuns,” pp. 319-333, in The Red Brush. Writing Women of Imperial China, Harvard University Press, 2004. Ling Mengchu, “Zhao the Nun Drugs a Beauty into a Stupor,” pp. 115-140, and “Scholar Wenren Shows His Prowess at Cuifu Nunnery,” pp. 727-755, in Slapping the Table in Amazement. A Ming Dynasty Story Collection, University of Washington Press, 2018. Highly Recommended (secondary sources): About Buddhist female authors in early modern China Grant, Beata (2001). “Behind the Empty Gate: Buddhist Nun-Poets in Late-Ming and Qing China” in Marsha Weidner, ed., Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Grant, Beata (2012). "Patterns of Female Religious Experience in Qing Dynasty Popular Literature," Journal of Chinese Religions 23 (1995), pp. 29-58. Reprinted in Vincent Groosaert, ed., Critical Readings on Religions of China, (Leiden: Brill), Vol. 4, pp. 1313-1345. About Women’s script 女书 “Reality,” pp.542-566, in The Red Brush. Writing Women of Imperial China, Harvard University Press, 2004 Ann McLaren, Crossing Gender Boundaries in China: Nüshu Narratives, Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. Issue 1, September 1998 Recommended documentaries about women’s script Nü-Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China Hidden Letters

JUNE 15

Keller Kimbrough: Required (all primary sources): Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2008). A History of Seiganji in the Capital (excerpt from the ca. 1565-1595 Rakuyo Seiganji engi), in Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan, 245-66 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies). Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2008). "Izumi Shikibu's Vow" (excerpt from the sixteenth-century Akagi Bunko manuscript of The Tale of Jōruri), in Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan, 277-80 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies). Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2013). Sayohime (seventeenth-century Kyoto University manuscript), in Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater, 161-90 (New York: Columbia University Press). Optional (more primary sources): Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2018). The Tale of the Fuji Cave (Akagi Bunko manuscript of 1603), in Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, ed. Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press), 197-216. Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2018). Isozaki (seventeenth-century Keiō University Library manuscript), in Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, ed. Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press), 217-32. Kimbrough, Keller trans. (2007). Chūjōhime (woodblock-printed text of 1651), in Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press), 1138-50 Further Supplementary Readings (secondary sources): Faure, Bernard (2003). The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (Princeton: Princeton University Press). Kimbrough, R. Keller (2008). Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies). Meeks, Lori (2010). Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press). Ruch, Barbara ed. (2002). Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies).

JUNE 20

Reiko Ohnuma: Required: Cole, Alan (2006). "Buddhism," in Sex, Marriage, and Family in World Religions, ed. by D. S. Browning, M. C. Green, and J. Witte, Jr. (New York: Columbia University Press,), pp. 299-366 [including only pp. 299-351]. Ohnuma, Reiko (2012). “‘What Here is the Merit, May That Be For My Parents’: Motherhood on the Ground," Chapter 8 of Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford University Press), pp. 180-203. Optional: Scheible, Kristin (2014). Review of Reiko Ohnuma, Ties That Bind: Maternal Imagery and Discourse in Indian Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2012), published on H-Buddhism (January 2014), pp. 1-3.

JUNE 21

Jessey Choo: Dorothy C. Wong. 2022. “Empress Wu’s Impact Beyond China: Kingship and Female Sovereigns.” In Transmission of Buddhism in Asia and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Antonino Forte (1940–2006), edited by Jinhua Chen, 199–236. Singapore: World Scholastic Publishers. Hughes, April D. 2021. “Wu Zhao as the Worldly Saviors Maitreya and Pure Light” and “Wu Zhao as a Wheel-Turning King and the World Savior Moonlight.” In Worldly Saviors and Imperial Authority in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. 80–110. United States: University of Hawaii Press, 2021

JUNE 22

Jessica Starling: Jaffe, Richard. “A Refutation of Clerical Marriage.” Religions of Japan in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 78–86. Starling, Jessica (2015). "Family Temples and Religious Learning in Japanese Temple Buddhism." Journal of Global Buddhism 16 (2015): 144-156. Rowe, Mark (2017). "Charting Known Territory: Female Buddhist Priests." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 44/1: 75–101

Lisa Battaglia: Required: Crosby, Kate (2014). “Women in Monasticism,” in Theravada Buddhism: Continuity, Diversity, and Identity. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 218-237. Seeger, Martin (2006). “The Bhikkhunī-Ordination Controversy in Thailand, The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 29 no. 1, pp. 155-183. Optional: Lehrer, Tyler A. (2019). “Mobilizing Gendered Piety in Sri Lanka's Contemporary Bhikkhunī Ordination Dispute," Buddhist Studies Review, 36 no. 1 pp. 99-121. (Since Findly’s Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women is on the assigned reading list for the Institute, I would point participants to the following two chapters: "Voramai Kabilsingh: the first Thai bhikkhunī," by M Batchelor; and “Chatsumarn Kabilsingh: advocate for a bhikkhunī sangha in Thailand," by M Batchelor.)

JUNE 26

Lisa Battaglia: Required: Gajaweera, Nalika (2020). “The Mothers of Righteous Society: Lay Buddhist Women as Agents of the Sinhala Nationalist Imaginary,” Journal of Global Buddhism, Vol. 21, pp. 187-204. Scott, Rachelle M. (2014). “Pawinee Bunkhun: The Life of a Thai Buddhist Upasika,” in Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners, ed. Todd Lewis. Wiley Blackwell, pp. 147-156. Optional: Battaglia, Lisa (2015). “Becoming Bhikkhunī?" Mae Chis and the Global Women's Ordination Movement," Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 22, 2015, pp. 25-62. (Since Findly’s Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women is on the assigned reading list for the Institute, I would point participants to the following chapter: “Women in between: Becoming religious persons in Thailand," by M L Falk.)

JUNE 27

Sarah Jacoby: Mitchell, Donald W., and Sarah H. Jacoby (2014). Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist Experience, Oxford University Press, ch. 6 Gyatso, Janet and Hanna Havnevik (2005). Women in Tibet (New York: Columbia University Press), introduction Jacoby, Sarah (2014). Love and Liberation: Autobiographical Writings of the Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Sera Khandro (New York: Columbia University Press), ch. 3 "Dakini Dialogues" Padma’tsho (Baimacuo), & Jacoby, S. (2020). Gender Equality in and on Tibetan Buddhist Nuns’ Terms. Religions (Basel, Switzerland), 11(10), 543.

JUNE 28

Jin Y. Park: Required: Park, Jin Y. (2014). “Translator’s Introduction.” Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, pp. 1-26. Optional: Cho, Eunsu, ed. (2011). Korean Buddhist Nuns and Laywomen: Hidden Histories, Enduring Vitality. Albany: State University of New York Press. Park, Jin Y. (2018). Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryŏp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Park, Jin Y. (2022). “Gender and Dharma Lineage: Nuns in Korean Sŏn Buddhism.” In Albert Welter, Steven Heine, and Jin Y. Park (eds), Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia, pp. 239-262. Albany: State University of New York Press. Park, Jin Y. trans. (2014). Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun: Essays by Zen Master Kim Iryŏp. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.