印度学与印度研究学术讲座第十六 

David Gardiner 

美国科罗拉多学院宗教学教授 

 时间：2016年5月6日（周五）18：30—20：30

地点：复旦大学光华楼西主楼2801报告厅 

  主持：刘宇光 复旦大学哲学学院副教授

报告简介：

   Many scholars assert that Japanese Buddhism places a strong emphasis on affirmation of the everyday world. While this is an overly broad generalization, there is some truth in it. This talk will explore the thought of Kukai (空海, 774-835), the founder of the Shingon school (真言宗), and Dogen (道元, 1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen (曹洞禪) school. These two men are commonly praised as perhaps the greatest thinkers in the Japanese Buddhist tradition. Their Mahayana-based visions were complex, and contained negation in the midst of affirmation.

讲者简介：

   David Gardiner ， Professor of Religion at Colorado College in the USA. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995. He has published many articles on Japanese Buddhism, mostly on the life and thought of Kukai and the origins of the Shingon school. He is working on two books: a translation of one of Kukai's seminal texts (On Distinguishing Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism) and another on Kukai's theories of "mandala" and the employment of metaphor as central to his philosophy.