A 2020 course by Bryan Lowe at Princeton University “introduces the religious traditions of Japan from the earliest myths to present-day practices” with special attention to the interplay of religion and culture.
A 2020 course by Bryan Lowe at Princeton University “offers a roughly chronological narrative of key themes in the study of Japanese Buddhism from ancient times through the modern day.”
A 2011 course by Ken Brashier at Reed College analyzes Chinese religious traditions (Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhism) “as an âidea systemâ highlights not only the main components of a religion but also how they interrelate with one another.”
A 2011 course by Nathan Katz and Sanani Chaitanya Pragya at Florida International University explores the “understandings of âself and liberationâ in classic texts from the traditions of Theravada Buddhism, Jainism, Yoga, and Tibetan Mahayana Buddhism.”
A 2006 course by Catherine Wessinger at Loyola University New Orleans aims to ”
their histories, worldviews, methods of achieving their ultimate goals, ethics, artistic expressions, and social institutions.”
A 2003 course by Joseph Adler at Kenyon College explores “the philosophical and cultural history of the Confucian tradition, primarily in China, from its inception to the present day.”
A course by Jeffrey Richey at Berea College introduces “the East Asian spiritual heritage in China, Korea, and Japan (Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Shinto, folk, etc.) — its past, as well as its present and future. We will also give some of our time to the consideration of Christianity as an East Asian religion, and to the situations of East Asian religions in North America.”
A 2010 course by Ken Brashier at Reed College surveys “Chinese notions of time and space, but we also looking at the human ritualized reaction to those particular notions of time and space.”
A 2008 course by Ken Brashier at Reed College studies the “hell scrolls” in the college’s possession, as well as others, to understand how their depiction of hell “Chinese scrolls depicting hell combine image and text to communicate religious ideas to a broad audience; they offer ethics, entertainment and an education on how the cosmos works, warning about the certainties of karmic retribution.”
A 2010 course by Ken Brashier at Reed College aims “to learn the mechanics of translation and to develop an awareness of what it means to transform the words of one culture to that of another.”
