POSSIBILITIES FOR THE STUDY OF BUDDHISM

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI`I

Largely because of its major regional focus on Asia the University of Hawai`i at Manoa offers an extraordinarily rich set of resources in faculty, disciplinary departments, area centers, programs, undergraduate and graduate courses, Asian languages, and libraries which any student can draw on for developing and pursuing individual interests in Buddhism and related subjects within the context of established degree programs. (For the most current and complete information please explore the UH website: http://www.hawaii.edu).

DEPARTMENTS, CENTERS, AND PROGRAMS

These institutions may provide relevant background:

Anthropology
Art
Asian Studies
Chinese Studies
East Asian Languages and Literature
Ethnic Studies
Geography
Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages
History
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Liberal Studies
Philosophy
Political Science
Religion
Sanskrit
Southeast Asia Studies
South Asian Studies

COURSES

Courses with a specific focus on Buddhism include:

ART 790 Buddhist Art of South Asia
ASAN 694 Topics in Buddhist Studies
PHIL 360 Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL 406 Introduction to Zen (Ch'an) Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL 665 Zen (Ch'an) Buddhist Philosophy
PHIL 760 Seminar in Buddhist Philosophy
REL 202 Understanding Indian Religions
REL 203 Understanding Chinese Religions
REL 204 Understanding Japanese Religions
REL 207 Understanding Buddhism
REL 308 Zen (Ch'an) Buddhist Masters
REL 383 Mysticism East and West
REL 475 Seminar on Buddhism
REL 490 Buddhism in Japan
REL 661 Seminar on East Asian Religions
REL 662 Seminar on South Asia Religions

FACULTY

Faculty with special interest in or relevance to Buddhism include:

Roger T. Ames (Ph.D. U British Columbia 1978) Dept. Philosophy/Comparative Asian philosophy
rtames@hawaii.edu

Helen J. Baroni (Ph.D. Columbia U 1993) Dept. Religion/Japanese and East Asian religions
hbaroni@hawaii.edu

Arindam Chakrabarti (Ph.D. Oxford U 1982) Dept. Philosophy/Indian philosophy
arindam@hawaii.edu

S. Cromwell Crawford (Th.D. Pacific School of Religion 1965) Dept. Religion/Asian ethics and Indian religion
scrawfor@hawaii.edu

Eliot Deutch (Ph.D. Columbia U 1960) Dept. Philosophy/Indian philosophy
eliot@hawaii.edu

Nancy Dowling (Ph.D. U. London 1987) Dept. Art/Southeast Asian art history
ndowling@hawaii.edu

Mariko Inoue Dept. Art/Japanese art history
mariko@hawaii.edu

Ramdas Lamb (Ph.D. U California Santa Barbara 1991) Dept. Religion/South Asian religions
ramdas@hawaii.edu

Steve Odin (Ph.D. State University of New York Stony Brook 1980) Dept. Philosophy/Japanese philosophy
steveo@hawaii.edu

Graham R. Parkes (Ph.D. U California Berkeley 1978) Dept. Philosophy/Chinese and Japanese philosophy
parkes@hawaii.edu

Lee A. Siegel (Ph.D. Oxford U 1975 (Religion) Indian religions
lsiegel@hawaii.edu

Leslie E. Sponsel (Ph.D. Cornell 1981) Dept. Anthropology/Buddhist anthropology, ecology and environmentalism, Thailand
sponsel@hawaii.edu

George Tanabe (Ph.D. Columbia U 1983) Dept. Religion/Japanese and East Asian religions
gtanabe@hawaii.edu

Willa Tanabe (Ph.D. Columbia U 1983) Dept. Art/Japanese art history
wjtanabe@hawaii.edu

Hsingyuan Tsao (Art) Chinese art history

Lyndon Wester (P.D. UCLA 1975) Dept. Geography/monks and forest conservation in Thailand
wester@hawaii.edu

GRADUATE LIBRARY

Hamilton Library contains more than 8,000 books on Buddhism as well as many of the main scholarly journals on Buddhism:

http://uhmanoa.lib.hawaii.edu/

OTHER RESOURCES

Also adjacent to the campus is a Buddhist Study Center maintained by the Jodo Shinshu Honpa Hongwanji Mission which includes a library, lounge, meeting room and other facilities and which sponsors various talks, programs, etc.