Dear students, here is some …
Dear students, here is some information on guest lectures which can be of interest for you:
(1) Elaine Jeffrey: Governmentality and China Studies
Place and time: 20. march, 16.15 – 18.00, auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups building (UB)
Information on the lecture: http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/nettlogg.woa/wa/melding?id=54571&logg=8487
(2) Prof. Jeff Shore (who is teaching at the Buddhist Hanazono Univ. in Kyoto) will give a guest lecture on Zen practice. Prof. Shore combines an academic perspective on Zen with an active practice as Zen monk.
Description:Jeff Shore is an American living in Kyoto, Japan. After studying and practicing Zen in the States for a decade, in 1981 moved to Japan to live and train at Rinzai Zen monasteries. He is a lay Zen man and Professor of International Zen at Hanazono University in Kyoto (the sole Rinzai Zen-affiliated university in the world), where he has taught since 1987. Based on thirty-five years of Zen study and practice, the focus of his work is accurately expressing, and transmitting, Zen Buddhism in the West. This includes critically evaluating that tradition. While he has trained extensively in Rinzai Zen, he is not preoccupied with sectarian concerns. Rather, he directly points out the very core of Zen and the heart of living Buddhism In 1982 he began training under Keido Fukushima at Tofukuji, one of the major Rinzai Zen training monasteries in Kyoto. For Fukushima’s biography, see The Laughing Buddha of Tofukuji: The Life of Zen Master Keido Fukushima (by Ishwar Harris; World Wisdom). Fukushima trained as a monk under Zenkei Shibayama, author of Gateless Barrier (Shambhala), formerly published as Zen Comments on the Mumonkan (Harper & Row). Jeff Shore leads annual retreats and lectures worldwide on Zen thought and practice. His activities have been supported by grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education and the United States Department of Education. Born in the Philadelphia area in 1953, he received an MA in Comparative Philosophy from the University of Hawaii in 1978, focusing on Ch'an (Chinese Zen). Continued postgraduate work in the Department of Religion at Temple University until coming to Japan in 1981. Some of his annual lectures are available in English, Dutch, German, French, Hungarian & Danish at the following web site: <zenonderdedom.nl> Also see his entries for "Koan" and "Zen and the West" in Encyclopedia of Monasticism (edited by William M. Johnston; Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), "A Buddhist Model of the Human Self: Working Through the Jung-Hisamatsu Discussion" in Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy (edited by Polly Young-Eisendrath & Shoji Muramoto; Brunner-Routledge, 2002), and contributions for The Laughing Buddha of Tofukuji: The Life of Zen Master Keido Fukushima (by Ishwar Harris; World Wisdom, 2004), and What Is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness (by Bernadette Roberts; Sentient Publications, 2005).