The ninth biennial conference
of the
International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
(IASBS)

This Conference has been successfully concluded. Thank you.

Theme: Dharmakara's Vow: Engaged Shin Buddhism
Time: August 23-25, 1999
Place: Buddhist Study Center, Honolulu, Hawaii

[Dates and Programs]:
Aug. 22 Sunday 6:00pm......Steering Committee Meeting at
........................................... Pagoda Hotel
Aug. 23 Monday
..... 8:00am.....Registration
..... 8:30am.... Opening Ceremony
......9:00am..... Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Tanaka
......9:45am..... Break
....10:00am.......... <Panel Presentation: Vision in the Pure Land>
..............Richard Payne: Seeing Sukhavati - Yogacara and the Origins
................ of Pure Land Visualization
..............Eisho Nasu: Awakening in Dream - The Pure Land Buddhist
................. Practice of Dream Samadhi in Medieval Japan
..............Lisa Grumbach: Postcards of the Pure Land - Ema
...................Representations and Popular Religiosity
.....11:00am.....Shohei Ichimura: Kuan-yin Bodhisattva and
..........................Amitabha Buddha
........................Myoshu Agnes Jedrzejewska: Jodo Shinshu Sangha
..........................of the Buddhist Mission in Poland.
......12:00..........Lunch
........1:00pm.....Roger Corless: Chanting Dharmakara's Vows - A
.......................... Forum on the Shin Liturgy in English
........2:00pm.....Break
........2:15pm.....Shoyo Masako Taniguchi: Jodo Shinshu and Ethics
.........................Priscila S. Kuperman: Shin Buddhism and Ethics for
............................the Modern World - The Feminine Principle
........3:05pm.....Break
........3:15pm.....Keishun Asakura: A Comparison of the Ideas of Self-
............................Sacrifice - Dharmakara's Vow and the Idea of Jesus
............................(Christ)
.........................Masuo Kuchiba & Kazuo Funahashi: The Socio-
............................Religious Consciousness of Shin Buddhism in Japan
............................- An Analysis of the Seventh Census Date (1996) of
............................Honpa Hongwanji Denomination
.........4:30pm.....Recess
.........5:30pm.....Reception at Buddhist Study Center Conference
............................ Room

Aug. 24 Tuesday
.........8:00am.....Liturgy Practice
.........8:30am ...<Panel Presentation: Shin Buddhism and Natural
...........................Science>
...............Richard Payne: Pervasion and Natural Kinds: Epistemological
..................Concepts in Buddhist Logic and the Philosophy of Science
...............Kenneth K.Tanaka: A Scientific Explanation of Pure Land
..................Cosmology - Engaging the Sciences Towards Formulation
..................of "Engaged Living" (Seikatsu-ron)
...............Ruth Tabrah: Consilience: A Shin Buddhist View of 21st
..................Century Science
........9:30am.....Break
........9:40am.....Doreen Hamilton: The Toronto Island Dojo
.........................Hiromichi Mukaibo: The Buddhist Pension House in
............................Nepal
.........................Virginia Parkum & Tony Stoltz: Engaged Pure Land
............................Buddhism in American Criminal System:
............................Fundamental Case
........11:00am....Break
........11:05am....Yasushi Kigoshi: Post-Modernism and Shinshu
..........................Michio Tokunaga: The Bifurcation of the Mahayana
..............................Concept of "Two-truths"
........12:00.........Lunch
..........1:00pm....Shoshin Higuchi: Phenomenon is Reality - A Thesis
.............................by an Engaged Buddhist Inouye Enryo
.........................Joanne Mied: Shinran's Indication of Lineage and Its
.............................Radical Impact on Jodo Shinshu
..........1:55pm....Break
..........2:00pm....Angela Andrade: Interdependence and the Unbound
.............................Path
..........................Hidenori Kiyomoto: Sattva in Shin Buddhism
..........3:20pm.....Break
..........3.25pm.....Esho Sasaki: A Thought on "Independence of the
..............................Name"
..........................Takeshi Kaku: The Meaning of Teaching in Shin
..............................Buddhism - Beyond Ideology
..........................Toshio Murakami: Saigin, the First Noke, and His
..............................Engagement in Zen
..........4.40:pm....Recess
..........6:30pm.....Banquet at Treetops Paradise Park Restaurant

August 25 Wednesday
..........8:00am.....Liturgy Practice
..........8:30am.....Eiken Kobai: Shinran and Rennyo
...........................Akimune Hirahara: An Analysis of the "Comment on
...............................the True Disciple of Buddha" in the Chapter on
...............................Shinjin of the Kyogyoshinsho
...........................Makoto Ikeda: The Awakening through Aspiring for
...............................Birth in the Pure Land
...........9:45am.....Break
...........9:50am.....Makoto Ichiraku: The Buddhist Way of Aspiration for
................................Birth in the Pure Land
............................Nobuo Nomura: A Myth of the Pure Land
............................Shinya Yasutomi: The Opening of Dharmakara Spirit
.................................- in terms of the case of Rev. Takagi Kenyo
................................(1864.-1914) a Meiji Shin Buddhist
............................Alfred Bloom: Towards Proactive Engaged Shin
................................Buddhism: Reconsideration of the Double Truths
................................Teaching (Shinzoku Nitai)
...........11.30am....General Meeting & Closing Ceremony
...........12:30.........Lunch and Adjournment

Co-chairpersons: Dr. Alfred Bloom & Rev. Toshio Murakami
Buddhist Study Center
1436 University Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Telephone (808) 973-6555 - Fax (808) 973-6551

The next issue of THE PURE LAND, No. 16, will carry most of the papers presented at this Conference.

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