UTCP-Uehiro Booklet 13

Contents

Preface
Takahiro NAKAJIMA

Papers by Institute Faculty

1. Where does Meaning Come From? Creatio in situ and Creative Advance
Roger T. AMES

2. Voicing Enlightenment: Buddhism, Language and Liberation
Peter D. HERSHOCK

3. Kūkai and Shinto-Buddhist Syncretism
Masato ISHIDA

4. Wen, Trans-Asia, and the Other of Modernity: An Introduction Essay
Satoru HASHIMOTO

5. Language and Identity ― How language is related with personal and collective identity
Shinji KAJITANI

6. The Philosophy of Language in Chinese Philosophy
Takahiro NAKAJIMA

7. Languages of the Buddha
Norihisa BABA

Papers by Participants

1. The God(s), Foreigners and Children: An Essay on Incommunicability from the View of Pedagogy
Kotaro ABE

2. Heidegger Meets ハイデッガー : A Heideggerian Philosophy of Translation in Praxis
Elyse M. BYRNES

3. Language, Karma, and Enlightenment: Kūkai on the role of language in Buddhist Thought
Matthew FUJIMOTO

4. Dharma Transmission as Language: Esoteric Buddhist Theory of Language in Early Modern Japanese Classicism
Kentarō IDÉ

5. Voicing the Letter of One's Own Sound: Some Notes on the Role of Mantra in Kūkai's Philosophy of Lnaguage
Ana Laura Funes MADEREY

6. Language and the Social Imagination: A Confucian Approach to Homelessness in Hawaii
Sydney MORROW

7. Embodied Cognitive Science and the Ecological and Contextual Embodiment of Kūkai
Jonathan MCKINNEY

8. Linguistic commonality between Shingon and Kotodama belief
Tsuyoshi OHTA

9. Our Obsession with Language: A quest for an alternative path
Maki SATO

10. The Linguistic Application of Kūkai's Vehicle of Faith
Winslow TAYLOR

11. The Language of Dharma Transmission: Dōgen's Distrust of the Spoken Word as a Vehicle of Enlightenment
Patrick Cody TURK

12. My 45-minute-long 4'33″: A note on the thoughts of Kūkai, Zen and John Cage
Yuki UEDA

About the Authors