Koichi Shinohara
Biographic Data
| ID | 577016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koichi Shinohara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koichi |
| FAMILY NAME | Shinohara |
| SIGNATURE | SHINOHARA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9455-3399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the Positional Effects in Sound Symbolism: The Case of Hardness Judgments by English and Japanese Speakers
Sound symbolism refers to the systematic and iconic relationships between sounds and meanings. While the research on this topic is growing rapidly, one issue that is understudied in the literature is whether segments in psycholinguistically salient positions (e.g., word-initial position) exhibit stronger sound-symbolic effects. We report two experiments that, together, show Japanese speakers are more sensitive to the sound-symbolic values of segm…
Animals in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Buddhist Monks
In this paper, I examine the presentation of animals in medieval Chinese Buddhist biographies. These biographies tell stories about strange animals, whose behavior signals that they are far from ordinary-some local deities, underlings of such deities, or even former friends from a past life. By focusing on two biography collections separated in time by over 100 years, in this paper, I argue that the differing presentation of animals reflects the …
The Moment of Death in Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentary
Rethinking the Category of Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha
This paper reexamines the category of Chinese Buddhist apocrypha, sūtras composed in China rather than translated from Indian originals. Scholars have insisted on their importance for the study of Chinese Buddhist practices. I propose that the relationship between Indian Buddhist and local Chinese practices may be more ambiguous than this analysis suggests. I take my evidence from dhāraṇī sūtras. The Book of Consecration (Taisho 1331) has been in…
Spells, Images, and Mandalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals
Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the simple recitation of spells in the fifth century to complex systems involving image worship, mandala initiation, and visualization practices in the ninth century. He presents an important new reading of a seventh-century Chinese text called the Collected Dharani Sutras , which shows how earlier rituals for specific deities were synthesized into a general Esoteric initiati…
Dhāraṇīsand visions in early esoteric Buddhist sources in Chinese translation
Within the wider esoteric Buddhist tradition, this paper examines visions and soteriological goals indhāraṇīpractice by looking at the early instructions that are preserved in multiple Chinese translations. A number of different but not mutually exclusive ritual scenarios are presented in these materials. Here I will focus on two specific scenarios, namelydhāraṇīpractices with and without visionary confirmation
The more in front, the later: The role of positional terms in time metaphors
A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Although the sound-meaning relationship is often arbitrary (Saussure 1916), cases exist in which some sounds correspond to certain meanings. Such association between sounds and meanings is known as sound symbolism, and there has been a longstanding interest in the existence and the nature of sound symbolism. This paper reports an experiment on size-related sound symbolism, which shows that certain s…
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study
A growing body of recent work on the phonetics–phonology interface argues that many phonological patterns refer to psychoacoustic similarity – perceived similarity between sounds based on detailed acoustic information. In particular, two corresponding elements in phonology (e.g. inputs and outputs) are required to be as psychoacoustically similar as possible (Steriade 2001a, b, 2003; Fleischhacker 2005; Kawahara 2006; Zuraw 2007). Using a corpus …
Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960–1279 (review)
Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts
Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations and Contradictions 2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals in India 3. Of Metal and Clothes: The Location of Distinctive Features in Divine Iconography Part 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture: Accommodations and Ambiguities 4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Image in Vedic and Saiva Initiation 5. The Competing Hermeneutics of I…
Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
The ‘Iconic’ and ‘Aniconic’ Buddha Visualization in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Constraints on Motion Verbs in the Time Is Motion Metaphor
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000)
Illness and Self: Zhiyuan's Two Autobiographical Essays
From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion in Honour of Prof. Jan Yün-hua
Religion and political order in Nichiren’s Buddhism
Buddhism and the problem of modernity in East Asia: Some exploratory comments based on the example of Takayama Chogyū
Adjustment to the world' and 'rationalization' in Max Weber's study of Chinese religious tradition
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
The more in front, the later: The role of positional terms in time metaphors
The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study
A growing body of recent work on the phonetics–phonology interface argues that many phonological patterns refer to psychoacoustic similarity – perceived similarity between sounds based on detailed acoustic information. In particular, two corresponding elements in phonology (e.g. inputs and outputs) are required to be as psychoacoustically similar as possible (Steriade 2001a, b, 2003; Fleischhacker 2005; Kawahara 2006; Zuraw 2007). Using a corpus …
Animals in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Buddhist Monks
In this paper, I examine the presentation of animals in medieval Chinese Buddhist biographies. These biographies tell stories about strange animals, whose behavior signals that they are far from ordinary-some local deities, underlings of such deities, or even former friends from a past life. By focusing on two biography collections separated in time by over 100 years, in this paper, I argue that the differing presentation of animals reflects the …
Adjustment to the world' and 'rationalization' in Max Weber's study of Chinese religious tradition
Religion and political order in Nichiren’s Buddhism
Buddhism and the problem of modernity in East Asia: Some exploratory comments based on the example of Takayama Chogyū
From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion in Honour of Prof. Jan Yün-hua
Illness and Self: Zhiyuan's Two Autobiographical Essays
Constraints on Motion Verbs in the Time Is Motion Metaphor
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2000)
The ‘Iconic’ and ‘Aniconic’ Buddha Visualization in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Pilgrims, Patrons, and Place: Localizing Sanctity in Asian Religions
Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts
Images and Their Ritual Use in Medieval India: Hesitations and Contradictions 2. Theology as History: Divine Images, Imagination, and Rituals in India 3. Of Metal and Clothes: The Location of Distinctive Features in Divine Iconography Part 2: Images and the Elite Intellectual Culture: Accommodations and Ambiguities 4. At the Right Side of the Teacher: Imagination, Imagery, and Image in Vedic and Saiva Initiation 5. The Competing Hermeneutics of I…
Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts
Out of the Cloister: Literati Perspectives on Buddhism in Sung China, 960–1279 (review)
The role of psychoacoustic similarity in Japanese puns: A corpus study
A growing body of recent work on the phonetics–phonology interface argues that many phonological patterns refer to psychoacoustic similarity – perceived similarity between sounds based on detailed acoustic information. In particular, two corresponding elements in phonology (e.g. inputs and outputs) are required to be as psychoacoustically similar as possible (Steriade 2001a, b, 2003; Fleischhacker 2005; Kawahara 2006; Zuraw 2007). Using a corpus …
A Cross-linguistic Study of Sound Symbolism: The Images of Size
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Although the sound-meaning relationship is often arbitrary (Saussure 1916), cases exist in which some sounds correspond to certain meanings. Such association between sounds and meanings is known as sound symbolism, and there has been a longstanding interest in the existence and the nature of sound symbolism. This paper reports an experiment on size-related sound symbolism, which shows that certain s…
The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations
In its teachings, practices, and institutions, Buddhism in its varied Asian forms has been—and continues to be—centrally concerned with death and the dead. Yet surprisingly "death in Buddhism" has received little sustained scholarly attention. The Buddhist Dead offers the first comparative investigation of this topic across the major Buddhist cultures of India, Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Tibet, and Burma. Its individual essays, representing a range…
The more in front, the later: The role of positional terms in time metaphors
Spells, Images, and Mandalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals
Koichi Shinohara traces the evolution of Esoteric Buddhist rituals from the simple recitation of spells in the fifth century to complex systems involving image worship, mandala initiation, and visualization practices in the ninth century. He presents an important new reading of a seventh-century Chinese text called the Collected Dharani Sutras , which shows how earlier rituals for specific deities were synthesized into a general Esoteric initiati…
Dhāraṇīsand visions in early esoteric Buddhist sources in Chinese translation
Within the wider esoteric Buddhist tradition, this paper examines visions and soteriological goals indhāraṇīpractice by looking at the early instructions that are preserved in multiple Chinese translations. A number of different but not mutually exclusive ritual scenarios are presented in these materials. Here I will focus on two specific scenarios, namelydhāraṇīpractices with and without visionary confirmation
Rethinking the Category of Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha
This paper reexamines the category of Chinese Buddhist apocrypha, sūtras composed in China rather than translated from Indian originals. Scholars have insisted on their importance for the study of Chinese Buddhist practices. I propose that the relationship between Indian Buddhist and local Chinese practices may be more ambiguous than this analysis suggests. I take my evidence from dhāraṇī sūtras. The Book of Consecration (Taisho 1331) has been in…
The Moment of Death in Daoxuan’s Vinaya Commentary
Animals in Medieval Chinese Biographies of Buddhist Monks
In this paper, I examine the presentation of animals in medieval Chinese Buddhist biographies. These biographies tell stories about strange animals, whose behavior signals that they are far from ordinary-some local deities, underlings of such deities, or even former friends from a past life. By focusing on two biography collections separated in time by over 100 years, in this paper, I argue that the differing presentation of animals reflects the …
Exploring the Positional Effects in Sound Symbolism: The Case of Hardness Judgments by English and Japanese Speakers
Sound symbolism refers to the systematic and iconic relationships between sounds and meanings. While the research on this topic is growing rapidly, one issue that is understudied in the literature is whether segments in psycholinguistically salient positions (e.g., word-initial position) exhibit stronger sound-symbolic effects. We report two experiments that, together, show Japanese speakers are more sensitive to the sound-symbolic values of segm…
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