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James A. Benn |
Contact Information University Hall 120 University Hall 106 (Chair's office) 905 525 9140 ext. 24210 / ext. 24734 (Chair's Office) bennjam@mcmaster.ca relsch@mcmaster.ca |
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PublicationsPEER REVIEWEDBurning for the Buddha: Self-immolation in Chinese Buddhism. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 19. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia: Places of Practice. edited by James A. Benn, Lori Meeks, James Robson (Routledge, 2009).
“The Silent Saṃgha: Some Observations on Mute Sheep Monks,” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 32, no. 1–2 (2009 [2010]), 11–38. “Another Look at the Pseudo-Śūramgama Sūtra,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 68, no. 1 (June 2008), 57–89. [Table of Contents] [Abstracts] “Written in Flames: Self-immolation in Sixth-century Sichuan,” T’oung Pao 92, no. 4-5 (2006), 410–465. [electronic] “Where Text Meets Flesh: Burning the Body as an ‘Apocryphal Practice’ in Chinese Buddhism,” History of Religions, 37/4 (May 1998), 295–322. [JSTOR] “The Lotus Sūtra and Self-immolation,” in Readings of the Lotus Sutra, edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Stephen F. Teiser, 107–131. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. “Spontaneous Human Combustion: Some Remarks on a Phenomenon in Chinese Buddhism,” in Heroes and Saints:The Moment of Death in Cross-cultural Perspectives, edited by Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara, 101–133. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. “Fire and the Sword: Some Connections between Self-immolation and Religious Persecution in the History of Chinese Buddhism” in The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses and Representations, edited by Bryan Cuevas and Jacqueline Stone, 234–65. Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism 20. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2007. NOT PEER REVIEWEDBuddhism and Peace: Issues of Violence, Wars and Self-sacrifice, edited with Jinhua Chen. Hualien: Tzu Chi University Press, 2007. [Catalogue] “Introduction,” in Buddhism and Peace, Issues of Violence, Wars and Self-sacrifice, edited by James Benn and Jinhua Chen, 1–11. Hualien: Tzu Chi University Press, 2007. “Self-immolation in the Context of War and Other Natural Disasters,” in Buddhism and Peace, Issues of Violence, Wars and Self-sacrifice, edited by James Benn and Jinhua Chen, 51–83. Hualien: Tzu Chi University Press, 2007.“Buddhism, Alcohol, and Tea in Medieval China” in Of Tripod and Palate: Food and Religion in Traditional China, edited by Roel Sterckx, 213–36. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. [Catalogue] “Diet” (228–29) and “Self-immolation,” (758–59) in Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan 2004. The Śūraṅgama Sūtra: A New Translation, with Excerpts from the Commentary – By Ven. Master Hsüan Hua, Journal of Chinese Philosophy 38/4 (December 2011), 673–75. Morten Schlütter, How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China, Journal of Asian Studies 68/4 (November 2009), 1267–68. Stephen F. Teiser, Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples, History of Religions 49/1 (August 2009), 104–106. Martha P. Y. Cheung, ed. An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation. Volume 1: From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19/1 (January 2009), 132–34. Stephen Eskildsen, The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 18/4 (October 2008), 541–43. Benjamin Penny, ed., Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts'un-yan, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 18/4 (October 2008), 543–45. Jinhua Jia, The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 18/4 (October 2008), 545–47. Eugene Wang, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17/3 (July 2007), 351–52. Vincent Goossaert, ed. Sanjiao wenxian: Materiaux pour l’etude de la religion chinoise, (Revue Annuelle, no. 4), Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 17/3 (July 2007), 352–53. Robert E. Florida, The Buddhist Tradition: Volume Five of Human Rights and the World’s Major Religions, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 36/1 (2007), 169–70. S. A. M. Adshead, T’ang China: The Rise of the East in World History, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 16/3 (November 2006), 332–33. PEER-REVIEWED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS “Biographies of Eight Auto-Cremators and Huijiao’s Critical Evaluation” [introduction and translation] in Robert F. Campany, Wendy Swartz, and Lu Yang eds., Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook, forthcoming. NON-PEER-REVIEWED CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS “One Mountain, Two Traditions: Buddhist and Taoist Claims on Zhongnan shan in Medieval Times,” in Images, Relics, and Legends: The Formation and Transformation of Buddhist Sacred Sites, Essays in Honour of Professor Koichi Shinohara, Oakville: Mosaic Press, 2011, edited by James Benn, Jinhua Chen, James Robson. |
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