Buddhism and Ritual Performance in Pre-modern Japan

Buddhism and Ritual Performance in Pre-modern Japan

Hosted by McGill s School of Religious Studies in the Senior Common Room of the Birks Building

Sponsored by BDK Canada and CREOR McGill

Welcomin Address by Garth Green (Head of the School of Religious Studies, McGill)

Schedule of Presentations:

9.00 am “We Need Your Liver: Buddhist Miracle Tales With Puppets as Performance Medium”

Jane Marie Law (Cornell University) ; Respondent: Thomas Lamarre (McGIll)

9.30 am “Mechanisms for Female Enlightenment within Zenchiku’s Tamakazura and Nonomiya"

Matthew Chudnow (Gettysburg College)

10.00 am “Idolized Boys on Stage: Warawa-mai as a Power-Generating Machinery in Medieval Elite Society”

Sachi Schmidt-Hori (Darthmouth)

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00 am “Picturing Performances / Performing Pictures: The Ritual Dimensions of Pure Land Picture Scrolls”

Chris Callahan (University of Illinois)

11.30 Lunch Break 12.30 Visit Rare Books Collection

2.00 pm "Dance and Laughter in the Face of Corruption: Re-assessing the Sakura-e Dharma Assembly in the Tengu Scrolls"

Eric Swanson (Harvard University)

2.30 pm "Pedagogy in Performance: Devotion and Emergent Ritual Learning in Kakuban’s Shari kuyō shiki"

Matthew R. Hayes (UCLA)

3.00 pm Coffee Break

3.30 pm "The Development of Yogacara Contemplative Practice in the Japanese Hossō School"

Jingjing Li (McGill)

4.00 pm "The Jion’e and ritual performance in the Hossō school"

Mikael Bauer (McGill)

Conclusion and response; Aaron Proffitt (Albany)