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ART 247 The Art of Zen Buddhism
Spring 2001
Prof. Trian Nguyen
Tel. #: 786-6338
Email: tnguyen@bates.edu
Office: 314 Olin Arts Center
Office Hours: M. 2-3; Tu. 10 -11
Lectures: MW: 9:30-10:50
The art of Zen (Chan) as the unique and unbounded expression of the liberated mind has attracted the Westerners since mid-20th century. But what are Zen, its art and its culture? This course takes a broad view of Zen art, its historical development, and consider its use in several genres within monastic and lay settings. It also examines the important Buddhist concepts underlined the production of Zen art. The course has two main goals: to understand the basic teachings and a historical development of Zen; and to appreciate the art of Zen expressed through architecture, gardens, sculpture, painting, poetry and calligraphy. Readings focus on a number of different perspectives, including some important Buddhist teachings, literature, and art history.
ï Class attendance is mandatory. Two unexcused absences are permitted. One absence beyond this will affect your grade. Four absences will get a "F" for final grade.
ï Careful preparation of all reading assignments and active participation in class discussion. Students must read materials assigned on the lecture day in advance of each meeting.
ï Reading Responses: Students are required to turn in one-page reading response before Monday or Wednesday meeting. The paper must be typed but informal prose is fine. It will be evaluated on a v-, v or v+, and the lowest grade will be dropped. Students have 10 reading responses for the whole semester. I will not accept late or make up reading responses.
Reading responses should summarize the main content of the reading, raise any points or questions which seem unclear, and critically response to the authorís methodology and approach.
Note: Students are encouraged to use the Discussion Forum to discuss any reading materials among your classmates before writing the reading responds.
ï Midterm Exam: February 28. Students will be examined on the materials studied during the first half of the course.
ï Term paper (8 pages) due on Monday, April 9. A formal term paper based on an assigned topic covering material introduced during the course, or another topic relevant to the course. Absolutely no late papers are accepted.
ï Final Exam: 10:30 AM Tuesday, April 17. The final is a comprehensive exam, but mostly covers the materials from the second half of the semester.
Grades
Grades are based on the following: Grade Point Equivalency:
Class attendance 10% 95% - 100% A+
Weekly reading responses 20% 90% - 94% A-/A
Mid-term Exam 22% 80% - 89% B-/B/B+
Term Paper 15% 65% - 79% C-/C/C+
Final Examination 33% 4 absences F
- Two textbooks and a course pack are available the bookstore. 1) Helmut Brinker. Zen: Masters of Meditation in Images and Writing. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996; and 2) Shunryu Suzuki. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.
- A great number of books and articles recommended for further reading have been reserved in the Library Reserve.
Heinrich Dumoulin. Zen Buddhism: History. Volume 1: India and China. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988.
Aitken, Robert. Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku & Zen. New York: Weatherhill, 1979.
Addiss, Stephen. Haiga: Takebe Socho and the Haiku-painting tradition. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. ND2071 .A3 1995
Addiss, Stephen. The Art of Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Monks, 1600-1925. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
Arai, Paula Kane Robinson. Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. BQ9444.2 .A73 1999
Berthier, FranÁois. Reading Zen in the Rocks: the Japanese Dry Landscape Garden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. SB458 .B4713 2000
Brinker, Helmut. "Body, Relics and Images in Zen Buddhist Portraiture." International Symposium on Art Historical Studies, 6: Portraiture. Society for International Art Historical Studies, pp. 46-61. Kyoto: 1990.
Brinker, Helmut. Zen in the Art of Painting. London: Arkana, 1987.
Brinker, Helmut. "Chinso: Zen Portrait Painting in China and Japan." Interregional Influences in East Asian Art History. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, pp.177-87. Tokyo: NRICP, 1982.
Brinker, Helmut. Zen: Masters of Meditation in Images and Writing. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
Brinker, Helmut. "Shussan Shaka in Sung and Yuan Painting." Ars Orientalis IX (1973): 21-40.
Brinker, Helmut. "Ch'an Portraits in a Landscape." Archives of Asian Art 27 (1973-4): 8-29.
Buswell, Robert Jr. The Zen Monastic Experience. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Chang Chen-chi. The Practice of Zen. London, Rider & co. [1959].
Chapin, Helen. "The Early Portraits of Bodhidharma," Archives of Chinese Arts Society of America 1 (1945-56), pp. 78-85.
Cleary, Thomas. Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology. Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1980.
Cleary, Thomas. Zen Essence: the Science of Feedom. Boston: Shambhala, 1989. BQ9268.7 .Z45 1989
Collcutt, Martin. Five Mountains:The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981. BQ9294.4.J3 C64
Conze, Edward, trans. Buddhist Wisdom Books: The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. BQ1992.E5 C66.
Conze, Edward. Buddhist Meditation. London: Allen and Unwin, [1956] .BQ5612 .C6 1956
Dogen. Refining Your Life: from the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment. New York: Weatherhill, 1983. BQ9449.D654 T4613 1983
Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Buddhism: History. Volume 1: India and China. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1988. BQ9262.3 .D85513 1988
Dumoulin, Heinrich. Zen Enlightenment: Origins and Meaning. New York: Weatherhill, 1979.
BQ9262.3. D8513.
Ecke, Gustave. "Concerning Ch'an in Painting." Arts Asiatiques III, 4, (1956): 296-308.
Elisseeff, Danielle. Art of Japan. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1985. N7353 .E4313 1985
Faure, Bernard. "The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze." Critical Inquiry 24, (1998): 768-813.
Faure, Bernard. Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. BQ4440 .F38 1993
Faure, Bernard. The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. BQ9265.4 .F38 1991
Fontein, Jan and Money L. Hickman. Zen Painting & Calligraphy. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1970. ND197.F6
Foster, Nelson and Jack Shoemaker, ed. The Roaring Stream: A New Zen Reader. Hopewell, New Jersey: The Ecco Press, 1996.
Foulk, Griffith T. "Myth, Ritual and Monastic Practice in Sung Chían Buddhism." Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China, ed. by Patricia Buckley Elbrey and Peter N. Gregory. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1993, pp. 147-208.
Robert M. Gimello, Peter N. Gregory. Studies in Ch`an and Hua-yen. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1983. BQ9266 .S78 1983
Gregory, Peter, ed. Traditions of Meditation in Chinese Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. BQ628 .T72 1986
Hayakawa, Masao. The Garden Art of Japan. New York: Weatherhill [1973]. SB458 .H3813
Henricks, Robert G. The Poetry of Han-shan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990. PL2677.H3A244
Ito, Teiji. The Gardens of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1984. SB458 .I833 1984
Jang, Scarlett. "Oxherding Painting in the Sung Dynasty," Artibus Asiae 52/1-2 (1992): 54-93.
McRae, John R. The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chían Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
Nakata, Yujiro. The Art of Japanese Calligraphy. New York: Weatherhill, 1973. NK3637.A2 N3213 1973
Parker, Joseph D. Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1136-1573). Suny Series in Buddhist Studies, 1999.
Pollack, David. Zen Poems of the Five Mountains. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1985.
Preston, David L. The Social Organization of Zen Practice: Constructing Transcultural Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Price, A.F. and Wong Mou-lam, trans. The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng. Berkeley: Shambala Publications, 1969. BQ1992.E5P75 1969.
Rogers, Howard. "The Reluctant Messiah: ëSakyamuni Emerging from the Mountainí, " Sophia International Review (1985): 16-35.
Ross, Nancy Wilson. The World of Zen; an East-West Anthology. New York: Vintage Books 1960. BQ9269.4.C5 R6
Scharf, Robert and T. Griffith Foulk. "On the Ritual Use of Chan Portraiture in Medieval China," Cahiers díExtreme-Asie 7 (1993-4), pp. 149-220.
Seo, Audrey Yoshiko. The Art of Twentieth-century Zen: Paintings and Calligraphy by Japanese Masters. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.
Slawson, David A. Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens: Design Principles, Aesthetic Values. New York: Kodansha International, 1987. SB458 .S66 1987
Sorensen, Henrik H. "A Study of the Ox-Herding Theme as Sculptures at Mt Baoding in Dazu
County, Sichuan." Artibus Asiae, vol. 51, no3/4 ('91): 207-33.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Zen and Japanese Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1959.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. An introduction to Zen Buddhism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. BQ9265.2 .S89 1949.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Manual of Zen Buddhism. New York: Grove Press, 1960.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk. New York: University Books [1965]. BQ9295.5 .S8 1965
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Zen and Japanese Culture. New York: Pantheon Books [1959].
BQ9252.9.J3 S9 1959
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind: The Significance of the Sutra of Hui-neng (Wei-lang). York Beach, Maine: Weiser, 1981. BL1432.Z4S85 1981.
Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Zen Buddhism, Selected Writings. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1956. BQ9265.4 .S9
Swann, Peter C. The Art of Japan, from the Jomon to the Tokugawa Period. New York: Crown Publishers, [1966]. N7350 .S846
Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. New York: Weatherhill, 1973. BQ9288 .S8 1973
Nh’t Hanh, ThÌch. A Guide to Walking Meditation. Nyack, N.Y. : Fellowship Publications, 1985. BQ5612 .N5
Nh’t Hanh, ThÌch. The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987. BQ5618.V5 N4813 1987
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Nh’t Hanh, ThÌch. Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice. New York: Doubleday, 1995.
Thurman, Robert, trans. The Holy Teaching of Vimlakirti: A Mahayana Scripture. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.
Van de Wetering, Janwillem. The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery. New York: Pocket Books, 1978. BQ9294.4.J3 W4713 1978
Westgeest, Helen. Zen in the Fifties: Interaction in Art Between East and West. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers ; Amstelveen: Cobra museum voor moderne kunst, 1997. ND197 .W488 1997
Yampolsky, Philip B. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.
Zenga, Brushstrokes of Enlightenment / catalog selections, entries and essay by John Stevens;
New Orleans, LA: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1990. ND2071 .Z47 1990
Masao Ishizawa. The Heritage of Japanese Art. New York: Kodansha International, 1982. N7350 .H47 1986
Hisamatsu, Shin'ichi. Zen and the Fine Arts. N8193.3.Z4 H513
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Japanese Tea Ceremony
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Macadam, Joseph P. Japanese Arts and the Tea Ceremony. New York: Weatherhill, 1974. N7350 .M22
Nakamura, Julia V. The Japanese Tea Ceremony: An Interpretation for Occidentals. Mount Vernon, N. Y. : Peter Pauper Press, 1965. GT2910 .N3
The Japanese tea ceremony. A production of NHK. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, [c1993]. Video GT2912.O4 J36 1993
Graham, Patricia Jane. Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. GT2910 .G69 1998
Fujioka, Ryoichi. Tea Ceremony Utensils. New York, Weatherhill, 1973. GT2915 .F8413
Sen, Soshitsu. The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998. TX415 .S4613 1998