| DATE: | Friday, September 25, 2009 Saturday, September 26, 2009 Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
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| TIME: | 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM |
| PLACE: | Toll Room, Alumni House, UC Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Japanese Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Shinnyo-en Foundation, Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai/Numata Foundation |
International Conference on Japanese Buddhism featuring leading scholars from the U.S. and Japan. Featured speakers include:
Sueki Fumihiko (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, author of Studies in the Formation of Kamakura Buddhism)
Shimazono Susumu (Univ. of Tokyo, former President of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies)
Ryuichi Abe (Harvard Univ., author of The Weaving of Mantra)
Jacqueline Stone (Princeton Univ., author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism)
Bernard Faure (Columbia Univ., author of The Rhetoric of Immediacy and Visions of Power)
Carl Bielefeldt (Stanford Univ., Director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies and author of Dogen’s Manuals of Zen Meditation)
Hoshino Eiki (Taisho Univ., President of the Japanese Association for Religious Studies)
Tamamuro Fumio (Meiji Univ., author of The History of Japanese Buddhism: Early Modern)
