REL 303 Course Reader (CR)

1. Hayao KAWAI, "Japanese Mythology: Balancing the Gods," in his Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan (Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 1995) 67-97.

2. Joseph Kitagawa, "Chapter 6. The Shadow and the Sun: A Glimpse of the Fujiwara and the Imperial Families in Japan," in his On Understanding Japanese Religion (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), 98-116.

3. Carmen Blacker, The Catalpa Bow (London: George Allen & Unwin) 104-126, 127-139.

4. Peter Harvey, An Introduction to Buddhism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) 9-26.

5. Robert A. F. Thurman, trans., “The Goddess,” The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987) 56-63.

6. Helen Craig McCullough, tr. The Tale of the Heike (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1988), 1-37.

7. Hayao KAWAI, “Torikaebaya: A Tale of Changing Sexual Roles,” in Dreams, Myths, and Fairly Tales in Japan (Daimon Verlag, 1995) 123-152.

8. William LaFleur, "Chapter 2: In and Out of the Rokudo," in his The Karma of Words (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986) 26-59.

9. Mark Unno, Shingon Refractions: Myōe and the Mantra of Light (Boston: Wisdom Publications: 2004) 1-11, 111-146.

10. Theodore M. Ludwig, "The Way of Tea: A Religio-Aesthetic Mode of Life," History of Religions (1974) 28-50.

11. Mark Unno, "Key Terms - Philosophical Terms in the Zen Buddhist Thought of Dogen"; Norman Waddell and Masao Abe, trans., "Shobogenzo Genjokoan," by Dogen Kigen, The Eastern Buddhist 5:2 (10/1972) 129-140.

12. Steven Heine, The Zen Poetry of Dogen (Boston: Tuttle, 1997), 1-34.

13. Barbara Ruch, "The Other Side of Culture in Medieval Japan," in The Cambridge History of Japan - Volume 3 Medieval Japan, 500-511.*

14. Henry Shukman, "Light and Dark: Koans and Dreams," Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, vol. 89, 15-23.

15. Mark Unno, “The Original Buddhist Rebel,” Tricycle (Winter 2017) 1-16. (15-Shinran-Rebel.pdf)

16. Taitetsu Unno, trans. Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic (Honolulu, HI: Buddhist Study Center Press) 4-9, 14.

17. Mark Unno, "The Nembutsu of No-Meaning and the Problem of Genres in the Writings and Statements of Gutoku Shinran," The Pure Land 10-11 (12/1994) 1-9.

18. Karen Smyers, “’My Own Inari’ - Personalization of the Deity in the Inari Worship." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23:1-2 (1996) 85-116.