Dale S Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 462182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dale S Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dale S |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Occidental College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto
We endorse policymakers’ efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy’s technology but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ‘ecology of attending’ that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. Wi…
Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra
This book attempts to articulate a contemporary philosophy of life drawing upon Buddhist resources from the Vimalakīrti Sūtra. Among the major themes in this Mahayana Buddhist scripture is the “skillful means” required to live a healthy and undeluded life. The book adopts that theme as a means of developing a practical approach to contemporary Buddhist life. Following many of the brilliant stories in the sutra, this book attempts to provide clear…
Zen masters
Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen (review)
Reviewed by: Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen Dale S. Wright (bio) Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen. By Hee-Jin Kim. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2007. xiii, 169 pages. $65.60, cloth; $21.95, paper. Hee-Jin Kim, now professor emeritus of the University of Oregon, has been engaged in the philosophical study of Dōgen for over 40 years. His widely acclaimed book, Dōgen …
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice contains nine articles by prominent scholars about a variety of topics including Zen rituals kinhin and zazen, and covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan. Each chapter attempts to describe how ritual in Zen, covering key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodong/Sōtō schools in China and Japan, molds the lives and characters of practitioners, shaping them in accorda…
Introduction: Rethinking Ritual Practice in Zen Buddhism
The ritual dimension of the Zen tradition in East Asia took the particular shape that it did primarily by means of thorough absorption of two different cultural legacies in China, one—the Confucian —indigenous to China and one entering East Asia from India and Central Asia in the form of the Buddhist tradition, and influence Zen even today. The introduction places the Zen ritual tradition in relation to the growing interdisciplinary field of crit…
Zen classics: Formative texts in the history of Zen Buddhism
A companion volume to 'The Koan' and 'The Zen Canon' this text concentrates primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought the Zen tradition to fruition.
“Rules of Purity” in Japanese Zen
This chapter outlines the history of the Japanese Zen appropriation and adaptation of Chinese rules of purity attributed to master Baizhang, from the Kamakura period down to the present. The so-called transmission of Zen from China to Japan in the Kamakura period (1185-1333) was a complex event with many facets, but it is convenient to analyze it as having two distinct dimensions: (1) the communication to Japan of Chan mythology, ideology, and te…
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts
The Zen Canon offers learned but accessible studies of some of the most important classical texts in the tradition of Zen Buddhism. Each essay in the volume provides historical, literary, and philosophical commentary on a particular Zen text or genre of texts. Among the most prominent types of texts featured are Chan or Zen “recorded sayings” (yulu) texts, “transmission of the lamp” anthology texts (chuandenglu), koan collections, and “rules of p…
The Koan: Texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. It focuses on one renowned Zen master, Huang Po, whose recorded sayings exemplify the spirit of the 'golden age' of Zen in medieval China, and on the transmission of these writings to the West. The author makes a bold attempt to articulate a post-romantic understanding of Zen app…
Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts. Steven Heine
La compréhension historique: Les récits de transmission du bouddhisme Ch'an et l'historiographie moderne
This paper analyzes the kind of historical understanding presupposed in the writing of classical Chinese Ch'an Buddhist "transmission" narratives and places this historical understanding into comparative juxtaposition with modern Western historiographic practice. It finds that fundamental to Chinese Ch'an historical awareness are genealogical metaphors structuring historical time and meaning in terms of generations of family relations and the pra…
Emancipation from what? The concept of freedom in classical Ch'an Buddhism
This essay attempts to articulate an understanding of the goal of ‘freedom’ in classical Ch'an Buddhism by setting concerns for ‘liberation’ in relation to the kinds of authority and regulated structure characteristic of Sung dynasty Ch'an monasteries. It begins with the thesis that early Western interpreters of Zen have tended to emphasise the dimensions of Zen freedom that accord with modem Western versions of freedom presupposing tension betwe…
A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion
The Discourse of Awakening: Rhetorical Practice in Classical Ch'an Buddhism
Journal Article The Discourse of Awakening: Rhetorical Practice in Classical Ch'an Buddhism Get access Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Dale S Wright is Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College, Los Angeles CA 90041-3392 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 23–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.1.23 Published: 01 M…
Rethinking Transcendence: The Role of Language in Zen Experience
The object of this essay is to present an alternative to what I take to be a fundamental component of Western-language interpretations of experience-the idea that is an undistorted, pure of things as they beyond the shaping power of language. This alternative will consist in an interpretation of practice and that acknowledges numerous ways in which language and linguistically articulated social practice have shaped and made possible distinctively…
Historical Understanding: The Ch'an Buddhist Transmission Narratives and Modern Historiography
This paper analyzes the kind of historical understanding presupposed in the writing of classical Chinese Ch'an Buddhist transmission narratives and places this historical understanding into comparative juxtaposition with modern Western historiographic practice. It finds that fundamental to Chinese Ch'an historical awareness are genealogical metaphors structuring historical time and meaning in terms of generations of family relations and the pract…
Doctrine and the Concept of Truth in Dögen's Shöbögenzö
DALE S. WRIGHT; DOCTRINE AND THE CONCEPT OF TRUTH IN DÖGEN'S SHÖBÖGENZÖ, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, 1 July 1986, Pages 25
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Process Metaphysics and Hua-yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration os Interpenetration. By Steve Odin. State University of New York Press, 1982. 242 pages. $10.95. Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Occidental College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 187-b–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaa…
The Significance of Paradoxical Language in Hua-yen Buddhism
Religion in East Asia
Journal Article RELIGION IN EAST ASIA Get access The Healing Buddha. By Raoul Birnbaum. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1979. xviii+253 pages, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, indices. $14.95. ISBN 0-87773-742-8. Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Occidental College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 300-b–301, https://doi.org/10.1…
Religion in East Asia
Book Notices
BOOK NOTICES Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation Theory and Practice. Edited by Minoru Kpyota, assisted by Elvin W. Jones. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xv+312 pages. $15.00. L. C. No. 78–60744. Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Washington and Lee University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 2, June 1979, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.10…
Rethinking Transcendence: The Role of Language in Zen Experience
The object of this essay is to present an alternative to what I take to be a fundamental component of Western-language interpretations of experience-the idea that is an undistorted, pure of things as they beyond the shaping power of language. This alternative will consist in an interpretation of practice and that acknowledges numerous ways in which language and linguistically articulated social practice have shaped and made possible distinctively…
A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion
The Discourse of Awakening: Rhetorical Practice in Classical Ch'an Buddhism
Journal Article The Discourse of Awakening: Rhetorical Practice in Classical Ch'an Buddhism Get access Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Dale S Wright is Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College, Los Angeles CA 90041-3392 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 23–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.1.23 Published: 01 M…
Historical Understanding: The Ch'an Buddhist Transmission Narratives and Modern Historiography
This paper analyzes the kind of historical understanding presupposed in the writing of classical Chinese Ch'an Buddhist transmission narratives and places this historical understanding into comparative juxtaposition with modern Western historiographic practice. It finds that fundamental to Chinese Ch'an historical awareness are genealogical metaphors structuring historical time and meaning in terms of generations of family relations and the pract…
Book Notices
BOOK NOTICES Mahāyāna Buddhist Meditation Theory and Practice. Edited by Minoru Kpyota, assisted by Elvin W. Jones. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978. xv+312 pages. $15.00. L. C. No. 78–60744. Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Washington and Lee University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 2, June 1979, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.10…
Religion in East Asia
Religion in East Asia
Journal Article RELIGION IN EAST ASIA Get access The Healing Buddha. By Raoul Birnbaum. Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1979. xviii+253 pages, illustrations, appendices, bibliography, indices. $14.95. ISBN 0-87773-742-8. Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Occidental College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIX, Issue 2, June 1981, Pages 300-b–301, https://doi.org/10.1…
The Significance of Paradoxical Language in Hua-yen Buddhism
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access Process Metaphysics and Hua-yen Buddhism: A Critical Study of Cumulative Penetration os Interpenetration. By Steve Odin. State University of New York Press, 1982. 242 pages. $10.95. Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Occidental College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 187-b–188, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaa…
Doctrine and the Concept of Truth in Dögen's Shöbögenzö
DALE S. WRIGHT; DOCTRINE AND THE CONCEPT OF TRUTH IN DÖGEN'S SHÖBÖGENZÖ, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, 1 July 1986, Pages 25
Rethinking Transcendence: The Role of Language in Zen Experience
The object of this essay is to present an alternative to what I take to be a fundamental component of Western-language interpretations of experience-the idea that is an undistorted, pure of things as they beyond the shaping power of language. This alternative will consist in an interpretation of practice and that acknowledges numerous ways in which language and linguistically articulated social practice have shaped and made possible distinctively…
Historical Understanding: The Ch'an Buddhist Transmission Narratives and Modern Historiography
This paper analyzes the kind of historical understanding presupposed in the writing of classical Chinese Ch'an Buddhist transmission narratives and places this historical understanding into comparative juxtaposition with modern Western historiographic practice. It finds that fundamental to Chinese Ch'an historical awareness are genealogical metaphors structuring historical time and meaning in terms of generations of family relations and the pract…
La compréhension historique: Les récits de transmission du bouddhisme Ch'an et l'historiographie moderne
This paper analyzes the kind of historical understanding presupposed in the writing of classical Chinese Ch'an Buddhist "transmission" narratives and places this historical understanding into comparative juxtaposition with modern Western historiographic practice. It finds that fundamental to Chinese Ch'an historical awareness are genealogical metaphors structuring historical time and meaning in terms of generations of family relations and the pra…
Emancipation from what? The concept of freedom in classical Ch'an Buddhism
This essay attempts to articulate an understanding of the goal of ‘freedom’ in classical Ch'an Buddhism by setting concerns for ‘liberation’ in relation to the kinds of authority and regulated structure characteristic of Sung dynasty Ch'an monasteries. It begins with the thesis that early Western interpreters of Zen have tended to emphasise the dimensions of Zen freedom that accord with modem Western versions of freedom presupposing tension betwe…
A Study of Dogen: His Philosophy and Religion
The Discourse of Awakening: Rhetorical Practice in Classical Ch'an Buddhism
Journal Article The Discourse of Awakening: Rhetorical Practice in Classical Ch'an Buddhism Get access Dale S. Wright Dale S. Wright Dale S Wright is Professor of Religious Studies at Occidental College, Los Angeles CA 90041-3392 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXI, Issue 1, Spring 1993, Pages 23–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXI.1.23 Published: 01 M…
Dogen and the Koan Tradition: A Tale of Two Shobogenzo Texts. Steven Heine
Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism
This book is the first to engage Zen Buddhism philosophically on crucial issues from a perspective that is informed by the traditions of western philosophy and religion. It focuses on one renowned Zen master, Huang Po, whose recorded sayings exemplify the spirit of the 'golden age' of Zen in medieval China, and on the transmission of these writings to the West. The author makes a bold attempt to articulate a post-romantic understanding of Zen app…
The Koan: Texts and contexts in Zen Buddhism
The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts
The Zen Canon offers learned but accessible studies of some of the most important classical texts in the tradition of Zen Buddhism. Each essay in the volume provides historical, literary, and philosophical commentary on a particular Zen text or genre of texts. Among the most prominent types of texts featured are Chan or Zen “recorded sayings” (yulu) texts, “transmission of the lamp” anthology texts (chuandenglu), koan collections, and “rules of p…
“Rules of Purity” in Japanese Zen
This chapter outlines the history of the Japanese Zen appropriation and adaptation of Chinese rules of purity attributed to master Baizhang, from the Kamakura period down to the present. The so-called transmission of Zen from China to Japan in the Kamakura period (1185-1333) was a complex event with many facets, but it is convenient to analyze it as having two distinct dimensions: (1) the communication to Japan of Chan mythology, ideology, and te…
Zen classics: Formative texts in the history of Zen Buddhism
A companion volume to 'The Koan' and 'The Zen Canon' this text concentrates primarily on texts from Korea and Japan that brought the Zen tradition to fruition.
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice
Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice contains nine articles by prominent scholars about a variety of topics including Zen rituals kinhin and zazen, and covers rituals from the early Chan period to modern Japan. Each chapter attempts to describe how ritual in Zen, covering key developments that occurred in the Linji/Rinzai and Caodong/Sōtō schools in China and Japan, molds the lives and characters of practitioners, shaping them in accorda…
Introduction: Rethinking Ritual Practice in Zen Buddhism
The ritual dimension of the Zen tradition in East Asia took the particular shape that it did primarily by means of thorough absorption of two different cultural legacies in China, one—the Confucian —indigenous to China and one entering East Asia from India and Central Asia in the form of the Buddhist tradition, and influence Zen even today. The introduction places the Zen ritual tradition in relation to the growing interdisciplinary field of crit…
Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen (review)
Reviewed by: Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen Dale S. Wright (bio) Dōgen on Meditation and Thinking: A Reflection on His View of Zen. By Hee-Jin Kim. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2007. xiii, 169 pages. $65.60, cloth; $21.95, paper. Hee-Jin Kim, now professor emeritus of the University of Oregon, has been engaged in the philosophical study of Dōgen for over 40 years. His widely acclaimed book, Dōgen …
Zen masters
Living Skillfully: Buddhist Philosophy of Life from the Vimalakirti Sutra
This book attempts to articulate a contemporary philosophy of life drawing upon Buddhist resources from the Vimalakīrti Sūtra. Among the major themes in this Mahayana Buddhist scripture is the “skillful means” required to live a healthy and undeluded life. The book adopts that theme as a means of developing a practical approach to contemporary Buddhist life. Following many of the brilliant stories in the sutra, this book attempts to provide clear…
Beyond the attention economy, towards an ecology of attending. A manifesto
We endorse policymakers’ efforts to address the negative consequences of the attention economy’s technology but add that these approaches are often limited in their criticism of the systemic context of human attention. Starting from Buddhist philosophy, we advocate a broader approach: an ‘ecology of attending’ that centers on conceptualizing, designing, and using attention (1) in an embedded way and (2) focused on the alleviating of suffering. Wi…
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