Unitarian Fellowship of Tokyo ZOOM meeting 3:00 November 14
Dear friends and members of the fellowship
Our
speaker will be Prof Brian Ruppert "Rethinking Japanese Buddhism Through
Cultural History: Texts, Sites, Gatherings, Movements."
3:00 to 5:00 on ZOOM only.
He
has sent us very interesting pre-presentation materials that are a summary and
a chapter from
his 2015 co-authored book, The Cultural History of Japanese
Buddhism.
[Brian
Ruppert ブライアン・ルパート]
Ph.D.,
Religion , Princeton University プリンストン大学 博士 (宗教史学)
Professor
教授
Department
of Cross-Cultural Studies, Kanagawa University
神奈川大学
国際日本学部 国際文化交流学科
https://kenkyu.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/kuhp/KgApp?kyoinId=ymiogmgsggy
Emeritus Faculty, University of Illinois
Selected
publications:
Jewel
in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan (Harvard)
Co-Author,
A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism (Wiley-Blackwell)
"Buddhism in Japan" ( The Encyclopedia of Religion
, 2 nd ed., Gale/Macmillan)
Please request at unitarianfellowshipoftokyo@gmail.com
if you want his materials(2 PDF)or Zoom link.
