| DATE: | Tuesday-Wednesday, February 8-9, 2005 |
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| PLACE: | Lipman Room, Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Buddhist Studies and Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley With the support of Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai America |
Jacquelynn Baas is Director Emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and an independent scholar. She is co-editor of the recently published book Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 2004) and the author of another book, currently in press: Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today (University of California Press, 2005).
Patricia Berger teaches Art History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests focus on Chinese Buddhist art and Asian architecture. She is the author of Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China (2003).
Carl W. Bielefeldt teaches at Stanford University. He specializes in East Asian Buddhism, with particular emphasis on the intellectual history of the Zen tradition. He is the author of Dôgen's Manuals of Zen Meditation and other works on early Japanese Zen, and serves as editor of the Soto Zen Text Project.
Robert Buswell teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles. He specializes in the Son (Zen) tradition of Korean Buddhism. Professor Buswell spent seven years as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Korea, which served as the basis for his book The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea (1992).
Nathaniel Dorsky is a Bay Area filmmaker. His works have been shown internationally and are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Image Forum (Tokyo) and Le Centre Pompidou (Paris). He is the author of Devotional Cinema (2003).
Georges Dreyfus was the first Westerner to obtain the title of Geshe Lharampa, the highest degree confered within the traditional Tibetan monastic system. He teaches Religion at Williams College. He is the author of The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: The Education of a Tibetan Buddhist Monk (2003).
Bernard Faure teaches at Stanford University. His research focuses on the anthropological history of East Asian Buddhism. His recent publications include Chan Insights and Oversight (1996), Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism (1996) and The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism (1997).
Zoketsu Norman Fischer is the former abbot of the San Francisco Zen Center and the founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation. His latest books are Taking Our Places: the Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up (2003), and his newly published collection of poems Slowly But Dearly (2004).
Gil Fronsdal is trained in both the Japanese Soto Zen tradition and the Insight Meditation lineage of Theravada Buddhism of Southeast Asia. He has been the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California since 1990. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University.
Steven Goodman is co-director of Asian and Comparative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco). His research concerns Indo-Tibetan influenced forms of Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. He is co-editor of Tibetan Buddhism: Reason and Revelation (1992).
Charles Hallisey teaches at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His research interests focus on Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Buddhist ethics and literature in Buddhist culture.
Richard Jaffe is a specialist in modern Japanese Buddhism at Duke University. His publications include Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism (Princeton University Press, 2002). He is currently working on a book about Japanese Buddhist travel and the transformation of Buddhism in late-nineteenth century Japan.
Don Lattin covers religion, spirituality and cults for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the author of Following Our Bliss - How the Spiritual Ideals of the Sixties Shape Our Lives Today (2003) and the co-author of Shopping for Faith: American Religion in the New Millennium (1999).
Gregory Levine teaches art history at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Buddhist visual cultures, cultures of viewing in Japan, and Buddhist images in modern and postmodern contexts. His book, Daitokuji: Art History and the Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery is forthcoming from UW Press in 2005.
Donald Lopez teaches at the University of Michigan. He specializes in late Indian Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism. His recent books include Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (1998), The Story of Buddhism (2002), Buddhist Scriptures (2004) and Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism (2005).
John Loudon is the former executive editor of Harper San Francisco and the original editor of Parabola Magazine. He is currently an independent editor, acquiring for various publishers including Harper San Francisco, Doubleday, The Penguin Group, and Shambhala. He lives and works in Marin.
Timothy J. McNeill is the president, CEO, and publisher of Wisdom Publications, a leading non-profit publishing house for books focusing on Buddhism. Mr. McNeill has a Masters in Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Alexander von Rospatt teaches in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. He specializes in the doctrinal history of Indian Buddhism, and in Newar Buddhism, the only Indic Mahayana tradition that continues to persist in its original South Asian setting (in the Kathmandu Valley) to the present.
Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley, has written extensively on China and Asia. He is the author of Virtual Tibet: Searching for Shangri-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (2001).
Robert Sharf teaches in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. He works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism, but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is the author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002).
John L. Solomon is the head of Disney Television Animation's Shorts Program, where he is responsible for producing 'creator driven' animated shorts which are ground-breaking and fresh in design, character, direction, and story-telling. Prior to working at TVA, John was Vice President of Creative Development of Theme Park Productions, where he was responsible for the creative development of all filmed entertainment in Disney Parks worldwide.
Babeth VanLoo is the director of the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation in Holland and is an experienced documentary filmmaker. She gained international acclaim for her films on Joseph Beuys and the award-winning Haiti, Killing the Dream (1991). Recent films include: Bhutan, Women of the Dragon Kingdom; Philip Glass' Practice; Coming Home and Gross National Happiness.
Diane Winston teaches at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. A veteran journalist and noted scholar, she is the author of Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (1999) and co-editor of Faith in the City: Religion and Urban Commercial Culture (2002).
