Stephan Kigensan Licha
Biographic Data
| ID | 2136431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephan Kigensan Licha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephan Kigensan |
| FAMILY NAME | Licha |
| SIGNATURE | LICHA S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Blending the Rivers, Loosing the Flavor
This articles examines the response of the Japanese Zen master Shaku Sōen 釈宗演 (1860–1919) to his experience of British colonialism on Sri Lanka from the point of view of a global history of religions. Previous scholarship has situated Sōen in the context of the Zen school and more generally has conceptualized the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism in the framework of “from the West to the rest” theories of modernization. The present article in…
Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies
Learning from the West, Learning from the East
Hara Tanzan and the Japanese Buddhist Discovery of “Experience”
This paper explores the role of Hara Tanzan 原坦山 (1819–1892) in the transformation of Buddhism into an “experiential religion” during the Meiji period. Scholars such as Sharf have argued that this transformation is due to Western influence on figures such as DT Suzuki. Japanese language scholarship has instead shown that in the early 1900s, the notion of Buddhism as experiential religion was already widespread, considering Tanzan as a predecessor …
Seeking Śākyamuni
In the wake of the orientalist critique and the discursive turn in the humanities, the category of “religion” has come under suspicion of being a Western construct forced upon non-Western, often colonial, subjects by brute epistemic violence for sordid political and economic motives. In seeking to salvage their subject matter, scholars of religion increasingly turn to a strategy of embracing the constructed nature of “religion” but contextualizin…
Seeking Śākyamuni
In the wake of the orientalist critique and the discursive turn in the humanities, the category of “religion” has come under suspicion of being a Western construct forced upon non-Western, often colonial, subjects by brute epistemic violence for sordid political and economic motives. In seeking to salvage their subject matter, scholars of religion increasingly turn to a strategy of embracing the constructed nature of “religion” but contextualizin…
Separate Teaching and Separate Transmission
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Separate Teaching and Separate Transmission
Hara Tanzan and the Japanese Buddhist Discovery of “Experience”
This paper explores the role of Hara Tanzan 原坦山 (1819–1892) in the transformation of Buddhism into an “experiential religion” during the Meiji period. Scholars such as Sharf have argued that this transformation is due to Western influence on figures such as DT Suzuki. Japanese language scholarship has instead shown that in the early 1900s, the notion of Buddhism as experiential religion was already widespread, considering Tanzan as a predecessor …
Seeking Śākyamuni
In the wake of the orientalist critique and the discursive turn in the humanities, the category of “religion” has come under suspicion of being a Western construct forced upon non-Western, often colonial, subjects by brute epistemic violence for sordid political and economic motives. In seeking to salvage their subject matter, scholars of religion increasingly turn to a strategy of embracing the constructed nature of “religion” but contextualizin…
Seeking Śākyamuni
In the wake of the orientalist critique and the discursive turn in the humanities, the category of “religion” has come under suspicion of being a Western construct forced upon non-Western, often colonial, subjects by brute epistemic violence for sordid political and economic motives. In seeking to salvage their subject matter, scholars of religion increasingly turn to a strategy of embracing the constructed nature of “religion” but contextualizin…
Learning from the West, Learning from the East
Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen Studies
Blending the Rivers, Loosing the Flavor
This articles examines the response of the Japanese Zen master Shaku Sōen 釈宗演 (1860–1919) to his experience of British colonialism on Sri Lanka from the point of view of a global history of religions. Previous scholarship has situated Sōen in the context of the Zen school and more generally has conceptualized the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism in the framework of “from the West to the rest” theories of modernization. The present article in…
Buddhism (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Articulation (sociology) (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)