The year 2011 is not just the 750th Memorial for Shinran Shōnin, it is also the 90th anniversary of the founding of The Eastern Buddhist Society. We are holding this lecture in hopes of facilitating an encounter with Shinran Shōnin, both as seen through the eyes of D. T. Suzuki, who can be called the father of the Society, and from the perspective of James Dobbins, a leading scholar on Shin Buddhist history in the West. The lecture will be held in English, but a Japanese translation will also be available. Please feel free to join us.
TIME:
May 16, 2011 5:00 pm --7:00 pm
PLACE:
Ōtani University's Media Hall (On the 3rd floor of the Kōrukan)
TITLE:
The Many Faces of Shinran: Images from D. T. Suzuki and The Eastern Buddhist
LECTURER:
James C. Dobbins (Professor, Oberlin University)
RESPONDENTS:
Itō Emyō (Former Secretary General of The Eastern Buddhist Society)
Yasutomi Shin'ya (Secretary General of The Eastern Buddhist Society; Professor, Ōtani University)
FEE:
Free
About the lecturer:
James C. Dobbins (Professor, Oberlin University)
Born in the US, received his Masters' Degree from Yale University in 1976 and went on to obtain a Ph.D. from the same university in 1984. His early research focused on the history of the various Shin Buddhist denominations in the first centuries after Shinran Shōnin's death. He is currently editing a collection of D. T. Suzuki's English writings which will be published by the University of California Press.
