EA 276: Class Schedule

Week 1 2/7

Week 2 2/12& 2/14

Week 3 2/19& 2/21

Week 4 2/26& 2/28

Week 5 3/4& 3/6

Week 6 3/11 & 3/13

Week 7 3/18 & 3/20

Week 8 4/1& 4/3

Week 9 4/8& 4/10

Week 10 4/15 & 4/17

Week 11 4/22 & 4/24

Week 12 4/29& 5/1

Week 13 5/6& 5/8

FINAL EXAM: IMAGES and REVIEW SHEET

Week One: Introduction

2/7 The Life of Monks

Week Two: Zen Practice

2/12 Zazen (meet in Rose Chapel for meditation training with Jing Ye)

• Overview of Buddhism and Buddhist History at: http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/ (follow all links in sidebar)
• Sheng-yen, "Zen Meditation, in Zen Tradition, 30-43.
• Morinaga Sōkō, “My Struggle to Become a Zen Monk,” in Zen Tradition, 13-29.

2/14 The Monk's Path

• G. Victor Sogen Hori, "Teaching and Learning in the Rinzai Zen Monastery" Journal of Japanese Studies 20, No. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 5-35. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0095-6848%28199424%2920%3A1%3C5%3ATALITR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
• Philip Kapleau, “The Private Encounter…” in Zen Tradition, 44-69.
• Eido T. Shimano, “Zen Koans,” in Zen: Tradition, 70-87.

Week Three: Zen History

2/19 A Brief History of Chinese Chan

• John R. McRae, “The Story of Early Ch’an,” in Zen Tradition, 125-139.
• Hsueh-Li Cheng, “The Roots of Zen Buddhism,” Journal of Chinese Philosophy Vol. 8 (1981) pp. 451-478. at The Zen Site: http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/Nagarjuna/roots_of_zen.htm

2/21 Japanese Zen

• Karen Andrews, “A Survey of 12 th Century Japanese Buddhism” at The Zen Site: http://www.thezensite.com/ZenEssays/HistoricalZen/Survey_of_12thC_Japanese_Buddhism.htm
• Philip Yampolsky, “The Development of Japanese Zen,” In Zen Tradition, 140-156.
• OPTIONAL: Dogen, “ Raihai Tokuzui: Bowing and Acquiring the Essence” at http://www.wwzc.org/translations/RaihaiTokuzui.htm

Week Four: Gardens

2/26 Muso Soseki and the Development of Zen Gardens in Japan

• Reading Zen in the Rocks, 1-29, and 85-119.
• “Japanese Gardens” by Clifton Olds http://learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens/, esp. Byodo-in, Saiho-ji, and Tenryu-ji

2/28 Zen Philosophy and the Garden: What is "Ma"?

• Reading Zen in the Rocks, 30-77.
• Richard B. Pilgrim, "Intervals ("Ma") in Space and Time: Foundations for a Religio-Aesthetic Paradigm in Japan," History of Religions Vol. 25, No. 3 (Feb., 1986), pp. 255-277 Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2710%28198602%2925%3A3%3C255%3AI%28ISAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-B
• “Japanese Gardens” by Clifton Olds http://learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens/, esp. Ryoan-ji and Daisen-in

Week Five: Tea (Chanoyu)

3/4 History, Theory, and Practice

• Theodore M. Ludwig, “ Before Rikyu: Religious and Aesthetic Influences in the Early History of the Tea Ceremony, ” Monumenta Nipponica , Vol. 36, No. 4. (Winter, 1981), pp. 367-390 . Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/view/00270741/di995063/99p0421c/
• "Taian, The Oldest Teahouse in Japan" at http://www.columbia.edu/itc/ealac/V3613/taian/table_of_contents.html

3/6 Tea Utensils

• Yuriko Saito, "The Japanese Aesthetics of Imperfection and Insufficiency," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 55, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 377-385 Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8529%28199723%2955%3A4%3C377%3ATJAOIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
• "The New Way of Tea," exhibition from the Asia Society, New York City at http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/newwayoftea/index.html

 Paper Due

Week Six: Noh

3/13 History, Theory, and Practice

• Makoto Ueda, "Zeami on Art: A Chapter for the History of Japanese Aesthetics," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Vol. 20, No. 1 (Autumn, 1961), pp. 73-79. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8529%28196123%2920%3A1%3C73%3AZOAACF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
• "Noh and Kyogen" at http://web-jpn.org/museum/noh/noh.html (follow all links)

3/15 Plays: Texts and Performance

• Izutsu (The Wooden Water Well) trans. by Royall Tyler. At http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/noh/TylIzut.html

Week Seven: Flowers

3/18 Roping in Nature? Reductionism and Ikebana

• O-Young Lee, “Ikebana—Cosmic Flower Petals” and “The God on the Ceremonial Shelf” in Smaller is Better: Japan’s Mastery of the Miniature, 91-110. (RESERVE READING in Miller library)

3/20 Midterm Exam

Spring Break

Week Eight: Poetry

4/1 Zen Poetry in China

• Burton Watson, “Zen Poetry,” in Zen: Tradition, 105-124.
           
• “Zen in Chinese Poetry,” from the Nebraska Zen Center at: http://www.prairiewindzen.org/zen_chinese_poetry.html

4/3 Haiku

• Read all articles in the reference section at “In the Moonlight a Worm…” at: http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk/form.htm

Week Nine: Calligraphy

4/8 Zen Calligraphy: Origins, Theory, and Major Masters

• Zen Masters IX, pp 99-112.

4/10 Calligraphy, Continued

• Zen Masters Catalog, section V, pp 272-286.

Week Ten: Painting

4/15 Parables and Allegories

• Zen Masters, pp 169-178; 234-236
• "Ten Oxherding Pictures" http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/oxherd.htm
• "Ten Oxherding Pictures," at Jotenkaku Museum http://www.shokoku-ji.or.jp/english/e_museum/collections/painting/jyugyuzu.html
  

4/17 The Buddhist Pantheon and Patriarchs

• Zen Masters, pp 131-138; 200-208

Week Eleven: Painting

4/22 Landscapes and Miscellaneous Themes

• Zen Masters, pp 178-197; 288-335

4/24 Monk Painters of the Edo Period (Zenga)

• Zen paintings (a commercial gallery) http://zenpaintings.com
           
• Hakuin’s paintings http://www.terebess.hu/zen/hakuin.html“

*****paper due

Week Twelve

4/29 Portrait Sculpture

• Zen Masters, pp. 83-97; 157-166; 238-264

5/1 Archery

• Yamada Shõji, "The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 2001 28/1–2.

Week Thirteen: Zen in America

5/6 History and Context

• “Kenneth Kraft, “Recent Developments in North American Zen, in Zen: Tradition, 178-198
• Visit: Gary Snyder, "Smokey the Bear Sutra" (scroll down page to view it) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/
  maps/poets/s_z/snyder/onlinepoems.htm
• John Cage, "Lecture on Nothing," in Asian Religions in America, 218-21Visit: Beastie Boys, Bodhisattva Vow http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=pfrjbvsw

5/8 Zen at Colby: Richard Serra, Isamu Noguchi, and Georgia O’Keefe

• Visit: Beastie Boys, Bodhisattva Vow http://www.purelyrics.com/index.php?lyrics=pfrjbvsw

Final exam on 5/15 at 12:30 pm