Curriculum Vitae

Name: NAGATOMO, Shigenori

Birth Place: Kagoshima-shi, Japan.

Current Place of Employment: Current Home Address:

Department of Religion 1412 Lawndale Ave. Temple University Havertown, PA. Philadelphia, PA 19083 U.S.A. 19122 U.S.A.

E-mail Address: [email protected]

Telephone: 215-204-1749 (Office) Fax Number: 215-204-2535 (Dept.)

Present Position: Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East-Asian Buddhism

Education:

Kōnan High School, Kagoshima-shi, Japan 1968 Diploma Central College, Pella, Iowa 1973 B.A. in Philosophy University of Hawai’i, Hon., Hi. 1978 M.A. in Philosophy University of Hawai’i, Hon., Hi. 1985 Ph.D. in Philosophy

Dissertation Title:

A Comparative Study of Body-Mind: A Theory of Attunement. [Dissertation Adviser: Dr. Eliot Deutsch]

Areas of Specialization: Japanese Buddhism & Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy

Publications:

Books Published or In Press:

 Nishida Kitarō, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, Place and Dialectic: Two Essays of Nishida Kitarō, (UK: Oxford University Press, 2011). [in collaboration with John Krummel]

 Hiroshi Motoyama, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, The Buddha’s Satori (Tokyo: Shūkyō Nagatomo-2

shinrigaku kenkyūjo, 2010). (129 pages)

 Hiroshi Motoyama, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, Being and the Logic of Interactive Function (Encinitas, Calif.: CIHS, 2009). (156 pages) [In collaboration with John Krummel]

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, Overcoming Modernity: Synchronicity and Image-Thinking (New York: State University of New York Press, 2008). Pp. vii + 247.

 The Diamondsūtra’s Logic of Not and a Critique of Katz’s Contextualism: toward a Non-dualist Philosophy (New York: The Edwin and Mellen Press, 2006). xvii + 178.

 MOTOYAMA Hiroshi, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo and David E. Shaner, Religion and Humanity For a Global Society (Calif., Encinitas: The Institute for Human Science, 2001), pp. xxi +237.

 A Philosophical Investigation of Miki Kiyoshi’s Concept of Humanism (New York: The Edwin and Mellen Press, 1995). pp. xxv + 93.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Monte Hull, The Body, Self-Cultivation & Ki-Energy (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1993). Pp. xxxvi + 229.

 Attunement Through the Body (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1992). pp.xxvi + 305.

 MOTOYAMA Hiroshi, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Clifford R. Ames, Toward A Superconsciousness: Meditational Theory and Practice (Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1990). Pp.viii +150.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Thomas P. Kasulis, The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1987). Pp.vii + 256.

 Science & Comparative Philosophy: Introducing YUASA Yasuo (Leiden, Holland: Brill Publishing Company, 1989). pp.xxvi+291. [Co-authored with YUASA Yasuo & David E. Shaner]

Articles, Book Chapters Published or in Press:

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 “Dōgen’s ‘Do No Evil’ as ‘Non-Production of Evil’: An Achievement and its Micro-macrocosmic Correlativity,” to be included in The History of Evil —a philosophical work on the history, nature, scope, and origin of evil, ed. Andrew Pinsent. (England: Acumen Press, forthcoming).

 “Yuasa Yasuo’s Philosophy of Self-Cultivation: A Theory of Embodiment” to be included in The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, ed. Bret W. Davis (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

 “Dōgen: A Japanese Transformation of Ch’an Buddhism,” in Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, published by Institute for Advance Studies of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University. Taiwan Journal East Asian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Issue 15), June 2011, pp.233-249.

 Abstract of “Dōgen: A Japanese Transformation of Ch’an Buddhism,” in The Second Annual Meeting, 2010 Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia, pp.123-125.

 “A Sketch of the Diamondsūtra’s Logic of Not,” in Teaching Texts and Contexts: The Art of Infusing Asian Thought and Culture, ed. David Jones et al. (Albany, New York: State University of New York, 2010), pp.249-264.

 “Ki-Energy: Underpinning Religions and Ethics” in Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, ed. Gereon Kopf (Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, Inc., 2009), pp.229-240.

 Hiroshi Motoyama, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, “The Conscious Evolution of the Buddha” in Hand Book of Indian Psychology, (India: Cambridge University Press India, 2008), pp.556-571.

 Motoyama Hiroshi, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & John Krummel’s “Metaphysical Logic” (July 2007, Online) (http://www.cihs.edu/Journal/journal%20Home%20Page.asp)

 “Philosophy of Zen Buddhism” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University. (Revised June 2010) (http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/japanese-zen/)

 YUASA Yasuo’s “Cultivation of the Body in Japanese Religions” in Great Religions and Cultures of the Far East: Japan, ed. Lawrence E. Sullivan (Milano, Italy: Jaca Book SPA, forthcoming).

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Jacques Fasan, “Image-Thinking:

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Understanding of Being,” in Philosophy East and West, 2005.

 “Ki-Energy: Invisible Psychophysical Energy” in the Journal of Asian Philosophy, vol. 12, No. 3, 2002, pp. 173-181.

 “A Critique of Steven Katz’s Contextualism: An Asian Perspective” in the Journal of Dao and Comparative Philosophy, July, 2002. pp.185-207.

 “The Japanese Zen Garden: Its Micro-Macrocosmic Correlativity” in Religion, Art and Visual Culture, ed., S. Brent Plate (New York: Palgrave, 2002). Pp. 145-152. [with Pamela Winfield]

 An Excerpt from Yuasa Yasuo’s The Body, Self-Cultivation and Ki-Energy in Religion, Art and Visual Culture, ed., S. Brent Plate (New York: Palgrave, 2002). Pp. 140-144.

 Yuasa Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Pamela Winfield, “Foreword” to Robert Carter’s Encounter with Enlightenment: A Study of Japanese Ethics (New York: State University of New York Press, 2001), pp. xi-xxx.

 “The Logic of the Diamond Sutra: A is not A, Therefore A” in the Journal of Asian Philosophy, vol. 10. No. 3, 2000, pp. 213-244.

 “Toward the Philosophical Foundations for Preventive Medicine” in the International Review of Chinese Philosophy and Religions, Vol. 5, March 2000, pp.195-244.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, “Meditation and Sexuality: Interpretation of Qìgōng and Its Present-Day Significance” in Bodywork and Psychotherapy in the East, ed. Wang Weidong, (The Netherland: Eburon, 2000), pp. 151-166.

 “Linji” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998).

 “KUKI Shūzū” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998).

 “An Invisible River” in the UNESCO Courier, UNESCO, April, 1997, pp.15-20. [Translated into fifteen languages]

 “Contemporary Japanese Philosophy,” in A Companion to World Philosophies, ed. Eliot Deutsch (London: Blackwell, 1997), pp.523-530.

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 “An Asian Perspective of Mind-Body” in The Journal of Philosophy and Medicine, 21:439-466, Oct., 1996. [in collaboration with Gerry Leisman].

 Yuasa Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, “Meditation and the View of Nature in East Asia” in Obirin Review of International Studies, No. 7, 1995, pp. 47-70.

 “An Eastern Concept of the Body: Yuasa’s Body-Scheme” in Giving the Body Its Due, ed. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1992), pp.48-66.

 “Two Contemporary Japanese Views of the Body: ICHIKAWA Hiroshi and YUASA Yasuo,” in Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice, ed. T.P. Kasulis (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992), pp.321-346.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo and William Allen, “A Contemporary Scientific Paradigm and the Discovery of the Inner Cosmos” in Self as Body in Asian Theory and Practice, ed. T.P.Kasulis. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press Press, 1992). Pp.347 – 361.

 “Ki-energy: Underpinning Religion and Ethics” in Zen Buddhism Today, No. 8, Oct., 1990, pp. 124-139.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Ruth Tonner, “Nationalism and Japanese Philosophy” in Obirin Review of International Studies, vol. 2, 1990. pp. 9-28.

 “An Analysis of Dōgen’s Casting off Body and Mind” in International Philosophical Quarterly, vol. XXVII, no. 3, September 1987, pp. 227-242.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Monte Hull, “An Encounter of Modern Japanese Philosophy with Heidegger” in Heidegger and Asian Philosophy, ed. Parkes Graham (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1987). Pp. 155-174.

 TAKEICHI Hiroaki, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo & Monte Hull, “On the Origin of Nihilism” in Heidegger and Asian philosophy, ed. Parkes Graham (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 1987). Pp. 175-185.

 YUASA Yasuo, tr. Shigenori Nagatomo, “A Cultural Background For Traditional Japanese Gymnastic Philosophy, and A Theoretical Examination of this Philosophy” in Proceeding of the PSSS Conference (Tsukuba, Japan: The University of Tsukuba Press, 1987). Pp.13-39.

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 “Ichikawa’s View of the Body” in Philosophy East & West, Vol. 36, No. 4, October, 1986, pp. 375-391.

 “An Epistemic Turn in the Tao Tê Ching,” in International Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, June 1983, pp. 173-189.

 “Zeami’s Conception of Freedom” in Philosophy East & West, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, October, 1981, pp. 401-416.

Book Reviews:

 Nishida and Western Philosophy, by Robert Wilkinson (Burlington, Vt: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2009. 175 pages. Reviewed for International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.

 Watsuji Tetsurō’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan, Watsuji Tetsurō, tr. Yamamoto Seisaku and Robert E. Carter, (New York, Albany: the State University of New York Press Press, 1996). ix + 381. Reviewed for the Eastern Buddhist, 1997, July.

 A Buddhist Priest Myōe: A Life of Dream, Kawai Hayao, trans. Mark Unno (Calif. :The Lapiz Press, 1992), Philosophy East and West, July, '94.

 Impermanence is Buddha-nature: Dōgen’s Understanding of Temporality, by Joan Stambaugh (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990) in The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 50, No. 2, May, 1991, pp. 422-423.

 Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dōgen, ed. TAKAHASHI Kazuaki (Berkeley, California: North Point Press, 1985) in Philosophy East & West, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, July 1987.

 Flowers of Emptiness: Selection From Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō, by Hee-Jin Kim (Lewston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1985) in Philosophy East & West, vol. XXXVII, No. 4, October 1987.

 Sand & Pebbles; The Tale of Mujū Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in Kamakura Buddhism, by Robert E. Morrel (Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1985) in Philosophy East & West, Vol. 36, No. 4, October 1986.

 Some translation of poems published in the anthology Postwar Japanese Poems, ed. KIJIMA Hajime, (Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1976).

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Research in Progress:

 西洋近代化覚書 [Memo on Western Modernization], 51 pages, 1 ½ spaced.

 Translation of NISHIDA Kitarō’s “Basho” [Place] (80 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12) [With John Krummel]

 Translation of NISHIDA Kitarō’s “Life and Logic” (116 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Romans, Font 12) [With John Krummel]

 “ ‘Emptiness’: ‘This is that and that is this’” (75 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12)

 HISAMATSU Shin’ichi’s “The Eastern Nothingness (30 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12)

Research Completed:

 Translator’s Introduction to YUASA Yasuo’s Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration: Image-Thinking and Synchronicity (34 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12)

 Translation of Yuasa Yasuo’s “Synchronicity and Paranormal Phenomena” (22 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12.) [With John Krummel]

 Translation of Yuasa Yauso’s “Life and Space-Time: Synchronicity and the Psychology of the Yìjīng. (22 pages, 1½ spaced, Times New Roman, font 12) [With John Krummel]

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “What is Synchronicity?” (36 pages, 1½ spaced, Times New Roman) [With John Krummel]

 Yuasa Yauso’s Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration: Image-Thinking and Synchronicity (189 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12) [With John Krummel]

 MOTOYAMA Hiroshi’s The Awakening of the Cakras and Emancipation. xxviii + 200 pages (single spaced) [With Pamela Winfield]

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “Introduction to Nationalism.” (48 pages, 1 ½ spaced, Times New Roman) [With Michael Graham]

 “The Body’s Role in Aesthetics in Japanese Philosophy/Culture,” prepared to present at the 2003 Conference of International Association for Philosophy

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and Literature, Held at the University of Leeds, England, Between May 26 –31, 2003.

 Motoyama Hiroshi’s Budda no satori [The Buddha’s Satori]. Lxx + 123.

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration” presented on a panel with the British physicist Brian Josephson, a Nobel Prize Winner, held on Nov. 22-23, 1998, in Tokyo, Japan.

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “Meditation and Sexuality: A New Interpretation of Qìgōng and Its Present-Day Significance” presented at the 5th Conference on Transnational Network for the Study of Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being, in Beijing, in April, 1998.

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “The Society for Mind-Body Science in Japan,” presented at the Conference on Human Spirituality in South Korea, between November 7th and 8th, 1997.

 Translation of KUKI Shūzō’s The Structure of iki [Iki no Kōzō] with introduction. [A collaboration with T.P. Kasulis]

 Translation of TAMAKI Koshirō’s “The Fundamental Invisible One among Dhamma, Pneuma, T'ien-Ming, Li, Sophia, Daimonion --based on the Total Personality Thinking,” presented to the 6th East-West Conference, held at University of Hawaii, in August, 1989. (42 pages, double spaced) [in collaboration with T.P. Kasulis]

 “A Japanese Concept of Self: Its Philosophical Dimension” submitted to the East-West Center, Summer 1987.

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “Depth-Psychological Examination of Christian Dogma.” [A collaboration with Clifford R. Ames]

 “An Examination of the Early Buddhist Concept of ‘Nirvana’.”

 A section of “A Philosophical Foundation of MIKI Kiyoshi’s Concept of Humanism” (60 pages, single spaced) in Contemporary Japanese Thought, ed. T.P.Kasulis, to be published by University of Hawaii Press.

 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “Medicine and Philosophy in East Asia” (43 pages, double spaced) in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy (tentative title), ed. T.P. Kasulis, to be published by University of Hawaii Press. [A collaboration with Thomas Downey]

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 Translation of YUASA Yasuo’s “Katachi: The Deep Layer of Japanese Thought,” (83 pages, double spaced) in Contemporary Japanese Philosophy (tentative title), ed. T.P. Kasulis, to be published by University of Hawaii Press.

Referee:

 Evaluation of manuscripts submitted to National Council of Sciences, Taiwan.

 Proposals submitted to the Oxford University Press.

 Research Project submitted to Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

 Articles submitted to the Journal, Philosophy East and West.

 Manuscripts submitted to the State University of New York.

 Manuscripts submitted to Routledge.

 Articles submitted to Manusya, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

 Articles submitted to Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts.

 Proposals submitted to the Oxford University Press.

Invited Lectures:

 Gave a lecture on the idea of “Centering” to a group of researchers from Leap Research and Innovations, Jan. 20, 2012.

 Delivered a public lecture, “Synchronicity: A Resurrection of the East-Asian World View,” at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan, May 30, 2011.

 Invited as a panelist to respond to a paper at a conference on Buddhist Ethics which was held at West Chester University, Feb. 12, 2011.

 Delivered a keynote speech, “A Philosophical Reflection on the Conference Theme: the Encounter Between Religious and Clinical Understanding,” at International Conference on Religious Experiences and Clinical Healing: the Encounter and Dialogue between Humanities and Science in Century, held at National Zhengzhi University, Taipei, Taiwan, on May 26th, 2011.

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 Delivered a public lecture, “The Logic of Not: Toward an Holistic Way of Thinking, Version 3” at Robert Williams University, Rhode Island, April 8th, 2011.

 Gave a talk, “The Logic of Not: Toward an Holistic Way of Thinking” on the occasion Temple’s Asian Studies Programs celebrated a Lune Lunar New Year on Feb. 10th, 2011 in rm 821, Anderson Hall, Temple University.

 Gave a talk, “the Visible and the Invisible” to Osai Study Group on May 22nd, 2010, Kagoshima-shi, Japan.

 Delivered a paper, “Dōgen: A Japanese Transformation of Ch’an Buddhism,” on the panel “Cultural Exchange between China and Japan” at a SCIEA’s international conference that is to be held at the National University of Taiwan, Taipei between May 8th, 2010.

 A paper, “Yuasa Yasuo’s Theory of the Body” to be delivered on the panel on Yuasa Yasuo at the 2008 AAR conference, Nov. 1-3, 2008, to be held in Chicago. (Cancelled)

 Delivered a paper “Ki-Energy in the Invisible Body: its Detection and Meaning,” sponsored by Scientific and Medical Network, held at the University of Bath, Bath, England, August 22-24, 2008.

 Delivered a keynote speech, “Yuasa Yasuo’s Theory of the Body,” at the symposium “Contemporary Japanese Concept of the Body,” held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England, June 5-6, 2006.

 Delivered a keynote speech, “In Praise of Non-Performance in the Performing Arts,” at the symposium, “Changing View of the Body,” held at Exeter University, England on January 8-10, 2006.

 Delivered a paper on “Synchronicity” at West Chest University, January 13th, 2005.

 Invited as a panelist for Interfaith Roundtable on Globalization and Democracy, at the conference on “Globalization, Democracy, and Ethnicity,” held at West Chester University, April 16, 2004.

 Gave a lecture on “An East-Asian View of Nature and Human Beings,” at the Conference on “the Cross Road of Health Care, East and West,” held at Ursinus College, Pa, on March 27, 2004.

 Gave a talk on “Zen Meditation: Not One, Not Two,” at Rowan University, New

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Jersey, Nov. 3, 2003.

 Gave a talk on “Contextualism and An East-Asian Non-Dualism” in the Department of Philosophy, West Chester University, Pennsylvania, Sept. 25, ’03.

 Gave a talk on “A Critique of Steven Katz’s Contextualism: An East-Asian Perspective,” in the Department of Cultural Studies, Sophia University, Japan, on Dec. 17, 2001.

 Gave a talk on “Religious Conflict and Resolution: From Shadows to Light” at Quadrangle, Haverford, Pa, on February 15, 2001.

 Gave a talk on “the Boddhisattva Way,” at the meeting of the Philadelphia Buddhist Association, August 5, 2000.

 Gave a lecture on the Diamond Sutra’s “Logic of Not” at the conference of Philadelphia Consortium of Philosophers, held at West Chester University, April 14, 2000.

 Gave a lecture on the Zen Personhood for the 21st century, at the conference of Philadelphia Consortium of Philosophers, held at Haverford College, March 24, 2000.

 Gave a lecture on “the Buddha’s Satori” in the department of philosophy at Haverford College, March, 1998.

 Gave a lecture on the Yuasa’s Body-Scheme to Prof. William Lafleur’s graduate seminar, “The concept of the Body,” at the University of Pennsylvania, Fall, 1997.

 Gave a series of lectures on the topic of “Mind-Body Interplay” at Bodhi Mandala Zen Center, in Jemes Springs, New Mexico between June 16 and 20, 1997.

 Chaired a session, “Religion and Psychology,” at the International Association of Psychology and Philosophy, held at the Hsilai University, in Los Angeles, July, 1996.

 A talk on “US-Japan Cultural Differences: A Reflection on the Subjectless Sentence in Japanese,” sponsored by Japan Club At Villanova University, March 7, 1996.

 A talk on “Yuasa Yasuo’s Concept of Body-Scheme” to the comparative philosophy section of Philadelphia Consortium, held at West Chester University, Oct.28, 1993.

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 A talk on “Buddhism” at the Central Presbyterian Church, in Norristown, Pa., on Sept. 20, 1992, at the request of Rev. Stifler.

 A session on the “meaning of Taoist meditation” at the Philadelphia Institute of Jung Study, on July 21, 1992, at the request of Pamela Donleavy.

 A talk on “Japanese Religiosity” to the study group sponsored by Dr. Sid Kochman, on April 12, 1992, Philadelphia.

 A talk on “Living and Lived Body as Energy-Phenomena: Its Invisibility and Interfusion” to the institute For Spirituality & Psychological Healing at its 92 Spring Program “Sacred Space,” in Philadelphia, Feb. 16th, 1992.

 A guest lecture on Science and Philosophy for Oriental Studies: 592 Current Japanology, at the request of Prof. William LaFleur at University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 15, 1991.

 A talk on “Buddhism” at Abington Presbyterian Church, Abington, Pa., January 28, 1990.

 A talk on “The Ten Ox Herding Pictures” at Germantown Friends’ Meeting, in Philadelphia, December 17, 1989.

 A Lecture on “Yuasa’s Concept of the Body” at Lake Forest College, Chicago, in February 1987.

 A Lecture on “Japanese Buddhism” at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa, in March 1987.

 A Lecture on “The Japanese Reception of Confucianism” to Philosophy 100: Introduction to Philosophy at University of Hawaii, June, 1986, sponsored by Prof. Henry Rosemont.

 A Lecture on “Dōgen” to Religion 500: Survey of Zen Buddhism at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, January, 1986, sponsored by Prof. David Chappell.

 A talk on “Uchi to soto o koeru” [Going beyond the inside and outside] to the Seikyūkai in Kagoshima, Japan, July 8th, 1985.

 A lecture on “Zen & the Bible” to Religion 300: Buddhist Tradition at University of Hawaii, on April 25, 1985, sponsored by Prof. David Chappell.

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 A Lecture on “Merleau-Ponty’s Concept of ‘Lived Body’” at Furman University, South Carolina, in March 1985.

 A talk on Psychē to the American Business Women’s Association, Ilima Chapter, April 24, 1985, on the subject of the Psyche.

 A series of lectures on NISHIDA Kitarō to Philosophy 380: Japanese Philosophy at the request of Prof. Beatrice Yamasaki, University of Hawaii, Spring, 1982.

Conferences Attended:

 Discussant at Roundtable Discussion on Healing. held at the National Zhengzhi University, Taiwan, on May 24th, 2011.

 Moderator at Roundtable Discussion on Healing, held at Zhengzhi University, Taiwan, May 28th, 2011.

 Presented a paper, “A Reflection on the Modern Western Rationalistic Views of Nature and Human Nature” on the Asian Panel, on Temple’s Global Day, Nov., 17, 2006.

 Presented a paper, “Synchronicity” at Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies, at the University Pennsylvania, on Oct, 23, 2004.

 Presented a Paper, “Ki-Energy: An Invisible Psychophysical Energy,” at the Greater Philadelphia’s Consortium of Philosophers, held at LaSalle University, April 20, 2002.

 Presented a Paper, “Sutiibun Kyatsu no bunnmyakushugi hihan” [スティーヴン キ ャッツの文脈主義批判] at the Conference “Today’s Spirituality,” sponsored by Yōkōbunmei kenkyūjo, held in Hakone, Japan between Dec. 13-15, 2001.

 “The Logic of the Diamond Sutra” presented at the IPLA, April 13, 1999.

 “Religious Healing and Representation of the Human Body” at the AAR-EIR, held at D’Youville College, Buffalo, New York. April 4-6, 1997.

 “Toward the Philosophical Foundations for Preventive Medicine,” at the conference “Future of Chinese Thought,” held at the University of Toronto, Canada, between Oct. 25-27, 1996.

 Chaired a session “Psychology and Philosophy” at the International Association for Psychology and Philosophy, held at Hsilai University, in Los Angeles, July, 1996.

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 “The Phenomena of Ki-Energy: YUASA Yasuo’s Conceptual Scheme,” at the Conference sponsored by the International Association of Chinese Philosophy, in Washington, D.C., Dec. 28, 1992.

 “Difficulties and Rewards of Teaching Asian Religions,” at the conference, “Core Curriculum Program in International Studies,” held at the Sugarloaf Conference Center, Jan. 6th, 1992.

 Respondent on the panel, “Engineering Human Consciousness” at the 3rd Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, held in Washington, D.C., June 13-16, 1991.

 Participated in the conference, “Science and Contemporary Japanese Philosophy,” sponsored by Social Science Research Council, held at Lake Forest College, April 19th - 22nd, 1990.  Presented a paper “Ki-energy: A Prolegomena to Underpinning Religion and Ethics” in the 8th International Conference on Zen Buddhism, held in Kyoto, Japan, between March 11th - 16th, 1990.

 Presented a paper “Yuasa’s Body-Scheme” at the conference, “Giving the Body its Due,” held at the University of Colorado, Eugene, Oregon, on Nov. 5, 1989.

 Participated as translator in the 1st Conference of Japanese Philosophy, held at U.C.L.A., sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, in April, 1989.

 Respondent on the panel “Buddhism and Heidegger” at the AAR, held in Chicago, November 20, 1988.

 Served as panel moderator at the conference, “The Status of Japanese Philosophy in the United States,” held at Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan in June, 1988.

 Presented a paper, “A Japanese Concept of Self: Its Philosophical Dimension” at the conference, “The Status of Japanese Philosophy and Religion,” held at U.C.L.A., sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, in October, 1987.

 “A Japanese Concept of Self: Its Philosophical Dimension" at the conference, “The Concept of Self: India, Japan and China,” held at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, June, 1987.

 “Dōgen’s Approach to Self-Realization,” at the conference of “The Society for Asian & Comparative Philosophy,” held in Philadelphia, Pa, in March 1985.

 Respondent to Professor IIDA Shōtarō’s paper “Dōgen’s Lotus” at the Conference on the “Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture,” held in Honolulu, Hawaii in December

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1984.

 “An Epistemic Turn in the Tao Tê Ching” at “The Third Congress in Chinese Philosophy,” held in Toronto, Canada in August, 1983.

 “Zeami’s Conception of Freedom,” at the “Association for Asian Studies Pacific Division Conference,” held in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 26, 1982.

Workshops:

 Gave a workshop on meditation at Robert Williams University on April 9th, 2011. This workshop included a lecture on meditation, a guided training of meditation exercises.

 Gave a workshop on “meridian exercises” to those students interested in learning them on the sixth floor of Anderson Hall of Temple University, in November 21st, 2009.

 Gave a workshop on “meditation” to the East-West Club at Temple University on Nov. 10, 2006.

 Gave a workshop on “meditation” to the East-West Club at Temple University on Feb. 24, 2005.

Grants and Fellowship Award:

 East-West Center, Hon., Hi. Feb. - Aug. 1987.

 The Center for Asian Studies Program at Temple University. (Summer, '93)

Language Competence:

Japanese and English (both fluent), French (reading competence)

Teaching Experience:

Temple University: Undergraduate:

Rel 53 Intro to World Religions (Core Course) Rel 50 Intro to Asian Religions (Core Course) Rel-0811-001-Asian Behavior and Thought (GenEd) Rel 113 Buddhism-Psychoanalysis & Existential Analysis Rel 115 Intro to Zen Buddhism

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Rel 122 Intro to Buddhism Rel 368 Comparative Mysticism IH52-47 Intellectual Heritage (Modern Western Intellectual History) H192 The Body, Meditation and Healing (Honors Course)

Graduate:

Rel 413 Proseminar in Japanese Buddhism Rel 412 Proseminar in Buddhism Rel 4 Foundations in Philosophy of Religions Rel 414 Foundations in Japanese Buddhism Rel 524 Foundations in Buddhist Thought Rel 614 Topics in Buddhist Thought: the Kyoto School Rel 990 Special Topics: Japanese Buddhism Rel 723 Religion and Contemporary Thought: Jung & the East Rel 611 Religion and Modern Thought: The Body: East & West Rel 720 Religious Experience: East and West

Independent Studies:

Undergraduate: Religious Experiences Intro to Buddhism Death and Dying Intro to Zen Buddhism Japanese Buddhism Human Body’s Energy

Graduate:

Philosophy of the Kyoto School Philosophy of Nishida Kitarō Topics in Buddhist Thought Reading of Abhidharmakosa Reading of Watsuji’s Ethics as a Philosophical Anthropology Readings on Eastern Meditation Texts

Other Teaching Experiences:

Haverford College, Haverford, PA:

Introduction to Buddhism (Fall, ‘98) [Dept. of Philosophy] Introduction to Zen Philosophy (Spring, ‘99) [Dept. of Philosophy]

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Introduction to Zen Buddhism (Fall, ‘00) [Asian Studies] The Body, Ki-Energy, and Meditation (Spring, ’01) [Asian Studies]

Supervision of Senior Thesis (Spring, ‘99) [Dept. of Philosophy]

California Institute for Human Science, Encinitas, California:

HUS-RS Historical Survey of Eastern Religious Traditions [Summer, 1997] Reader of a Dissertation (March 2011)

The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

0S 90 Japanese Civilization (Spring 1990) [Oriental Studies Program] INST 641/2 Japanese Philosophy (Fall, 1994)[Wharton School of Business]

University of Iowa

3rd and 4th year Japanese (1972-1973) [East Asian Languages] Intensive Japanese (Summer, 1973) [East Asian Languages]

Central College, Pella, Iowa

1st year Japanese Language Workshop (1970-1972).

Dissertation Committee Served NB: Names in bold and * indicate that I served or am serving as student’s main dissertation advisor.

1. Adam Valerio* (Religion) In Progress 2. Dr. Alan Fox (Religion) Completed 3. Dr. Alan Preti (Philosophy) Completed, Spring, 2002 4. Dr. Andrei Veshestov*(Religion) Left for Sweden Jan, 2010 5. Charlotte Moore* (Religion) 6. Ermine Algaeir III (Religion) In Progress [left for personal 7. Dr. Chang T’sai *(Religion) Completed, Summer, 1998 a. Employed at a Buddhist college in Taiwan. 8. Dr. David Low (Religion) Completed, Spring, 1998 9. Edward Godfrey* (Religion) In Progress 10. Denis Stromback* (Religion) 11. Dr. Gereon Kopf * (Religion) Completed, Summer, 1996 a. Lutheran College (Iowa, tenured) 12. Haibo Wang* (Religion) Left School 13. Jacque Fasan* (Religion) Left School (Change of interest)

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14. Dr. John Krummel* (Religion) Completed, 2008 a. Hobart William Smith College (Geneva, New York) 15. Kin Cheung* (Religion) In Progress 16. Kristin Narcowich* (Religion) Left School (Change of interest) 17. Jessica Setik (Religion) MA thesis supervision 18. Dr. Leslie Alldritt (Religion) Completed 19. Dr. Linda Dench (Education) Completed, Fall, 2006 20. Dr. Michael Barnhart (Philosophy) Completed 21. Michael Egan* (Religion) Left school due to illness 22. Michael Graham* (Religion) Change of interest, left school 23. Patricia Kolbe* (Religion) In Progress 24. Patrick Wayant* (Religion) Left School to pursue a music degree a. Returned to Temple in Fall, 2010 and finished an MA, fall 2012 25. Dr. Rank Ra (Religion) Completed 26. Dr. Randall Pabitch* (Religion) Completed, Summer 2007 a. Employed by IH at Temple 27. Seveket Cem Onat* (Religion) M.A. Exchange Student 28. Steve Pustay (Religion) In Progress 29. Dr. Sue-In Kim (Dance) Completed, Fall 2010 30. Dr. Tanya Calamoneli (Dance) In Progress 31. Dr. Tao Jiang* (Religion) Completed, Summer, 2002 a. Rutgers, NJ (Tenured) 32. Thomas Downey* (Religion) Left School due to illness 33. Dr. Todd Wise (Religion) Completed, Spring, 1998 34. Dr. Victor Forte* (Religion) Completed, Fall, 2004 a. Albright College (tenure track) 35. Marga Kasper* (Religion) Left School to get married 36. Dr. Pamela Winfield* (Religion) Completed, Summer, 2003 a. Elon University(tenure track) 37. Dr. Susan Fatherree* (Religion) Completed, Fall 2007 a. Working at a Buddhist NGO in Thailand 38. Dr. Wenchi Wu (Dance) Completed, Fall, 2004

SERVICE:

Service to Temple University:

Dissertation Completion Grant Committee 1995 -> 1997

Service to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:

Development of Asian Studies Programs College Dissertation Grants Committee May 1996 CAS Graduate Committee Sept. 1997 -> Spring,’98

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CLA Graduate Committee Sept. 1998 -> Spring, ‘00 Chinese Search Committee (Asian Studies) Fall, 2011

Service to the Department of Religion:

Scholarship and Awards (Chair) Sept. ‘98 -> Present Director of Graduate Studies July ‘93 -> May,’95 Graduate Studies Committee Jan. ‘88 -> Spring,‘95 Sept. ‘96 -> Spring,‘97 Personnel Committee Sept. ‘88 -> present Scholarship and Awards Committee Fall, ‘91 -> Spring,‘95 Undergraduate Studies Committee Fall, ’98 -> Present Laura Levitt’s Promotion Committee Fall, 2010 Vasiliki Limberis’ Promotion Committee Fall, 2011 Chinese Search Committee (Chair) Fall, 2011 Chinese Search Committee (Asian Studies) Fall, 2011 Indian Religion Search Committee Fall, 2012

Other Activities:

 Served as interpreter for Professor KIMURA Kiyotaka of Tokyo University who gave 10 lectures on Hua-yen Buddhism at Bodhi Mandala Zen Center, Jemes Spring, in New Mexico, July, 1997.

 Served as interpreter in the International Conference on the T'oegye School of Neo-Confucianism, held at the University of Hawaii in October 1983.

 Served as the Hawaii coordinator for NHK’s (Japan Broadcasting Company) overseas documentary crew between 1983 and 1987.

 Served as a field-worker for Multi-lingual-Multi-Cultural Planning Project, East-West Center, July, 1976.

 Worked as interpreter and translator for a great many business transactions between 1976 and 1983.

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