Eisho Nasu

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Affiliation: 教授, 文学部真宗学科, 龍谷大学

Degree: Ph.D.（博士）(Graduate Theological Union)
M.A.（修士）(Graduate Theological Union)
修士（文学）(Ryukoku University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201001077994808640
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Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2021 - Present

Dean, Graduate School of Practical Shin Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
Apr, 2009 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Letters, Ryukoku University
Sep, 2005 - Aug, 2009

Assistant Professor, Hongwanji Professor of Jodo Shinshu Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
May, 2007 - Mar, 2009

Core Doctoral Faculty, Graduate Theological Union
Sep, 1999 - Aug, 2005

Assistant Professor, Yoshitaka Tamai Professor of Jodo Shinshu Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Sep, 1997 - Aug, 1999

Assistant Professor, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Jun, 1996 - Mar, 1998

Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages, University of California, Berkeley
Sep, 1996 - Aug, 1997

Adjunct Professor, Institute of Buddhist Studies

Education

Sep, 1990 - May, 1996

Doctoral Program in Cultural and Historical Study of Religions, Cultural and Historical Study of Religions, Graduate Theological Union
Apr, 1986 - Mar, 1991

Doctoral Program in Shin Buddhist Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Ryukoku Uinveristy
Sep, 1988 - May, 1990

M.A. Program in Buddhist Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union
Apr, 1983 - Mar, 1986

M.A. Program inShin Buddhist Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Ryukoku Uinveristy
Apr, 1979 - Mar, 1983

English and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

Committee Memberships

Sep, 2019 - Present

Councillor, Japanese Asspciation for Religious Studies
Jun, 2019 - Present

Councillor, Shinshu Rengo Gakkai
May, 2019 - Present

Councillor, International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
Nov, 2016 - Present

Councillor, Japan Association of Religion and Ethics
Nov, 2009 - Present

Director, Research Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
Oct, 2016 - Oct, 2018

Executive Director, Japan Association of Religion and Ethics
Apr, 2010 - Mar, 2016

Councillor, Kyoto Graduate Union of Religious Studies
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2014

Executive Director, Kyoto Graduate Union of Religious Studies
Sep, 2001 - Nov, 2009

Councillor, Research Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
Nov, 1997 - Sep, 2009

Councillor (North American District), International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies

Papers

龍谷大学の真宗学と北米における真宗学研究・教育の展開―藤原凌雪先生とフィリップ・アイドマン先生の事績を中心に―

那須英勝

龍谷大学真宗学一〇〇年史, 309-325, Feb, 2024 Invited
The Non-cognizable Subject, the Cognizable Manifestation, and the Object beyond Human Comprehension: Cognition in Umehara Shinryū’s Theory of “Three Modes of Holiness”

Eisho Nasu

The Shinshu Kenkyu: Journal of Shinshu Studies, 68 316-334, Jan, 2024 Peer-reviewedInvited
29

Genshin’s Development of the Contemplation on Amida’s byakugō and Its Influence on Japanese Pure Land Practice

Nasu Eisho

Shinshugaku: Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, 148 1-14, Mar, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Curing Fox and Badger Possession in Shinshū Practice: A Study of the Gemaben (How to Liberate Evil Spirits) by Seijōsai Seigai (1753-1829)

Nasu Eisho

The Journal of Ryukoku University, (499) 8-18, Mar, 2023 Peer-reviewed
44

Belief and Slander: Seikaku Hōin (1167-1235) in Shinran’s Work and Life

Nasu Eisho

Shinshugaku: Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, 143・144合併号 1-28, Mar, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Pure Land as “Real Existence” and Pure Land as a “Mere Concept”: Early Modern Buddhist Soteriology as Reflected in Japanese Christian Doctrinal Texts

Nasu Eisho

The Journal of the Nippon Buddhist Research Association, 85 33-51, Aug, 2020 Peer-reviewedInvited
33

Genshin’s Discovery of the Easy Way to Receive Confirmation for Enlightenment in the Present Life

NASU Eisho

Shinshugaku: Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, (141・142合併号) 13-27, Mar, 2020 Peer-reviewed
『教行信証』(文明本)の研究—A Study of the Bunmei Edition of the Kyōgyōshinshō

川添, 泰信, 那須, 英勝, 高田, 文英, 田中, 無量, 四夷, 法顕, 西河, 唯, 林, 龍樹, 都河, 陽介, 杉岡, 考紀, 三栗, 章夫 …

佛教文化研究所紀要, 56 1, Mar 30, 2018
The Multi-layered Worldview of a Medieval Japanese Priest as Told in the Shijū hyakuinnen shū (Hundred Tales of Buddhism Collected Personally)

NASU Eisho

Shinshugaku: Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, (137・138合併号) 107-124, Mar, 2018 Peer-reviewed
“Sometimes Secrets Are Leaked”: The Fraught Social Relationships of Medieval Buddhist Priests as Seen in the Ima monogatari (Tales of the Present)

NASU Eisho

The Journal of Ryukoku University, (490) 10-25, Nov, 2017 Peer-reviewed
A European Myōkōnin and His Non-antithetical Thought: Brief Notes on the Life of Rev. Harry Pieper

NASU Eisho

Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, (133) 1-15, Mar, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Medieval Pure Land Buddhist Practice and Spells for Safety in Hell: The Transmission of the Tale of Xuantong's Resurrection

NASU Eisho

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 63(2) 39-46, Mar, 2015 Peer-reviewed
Social Consciousness of the Followers of Sole Practice of Nembutsu (senju nembutsu) in Medieval Japan: The Significance of Hymns of Expelling Seven Hardships

NASU Eisho

The Journal of Ryukoku University, 483 9-25, Mar, 2014 Peer-reviewed
26

Jōdo Shinshū’s Doctrinal Reflection on the Possibility of Children Attaining Birth in the Pure Land (shōni ōjō)

NASU Eisho

Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, (129・130合併号) 23-36, Mar, 2014 Peer-reviewed
Brief Notes on the Records of Seikaku Hoin's Sister, the Nun Jōi

NASU Eisho

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 61(1) 63-69, Dec, 2012 Peer-reviewed
Religious Views of Contemporary American Buddhists and Challenges Facing the Transmission of Jōdo Shinshū in the U.S.: Learning from the Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

NASU Eisho

Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, (123・124合併号) 23-43, Mar, 2011 Peer-reviewed
171

Awakening in Dream: The Pure Land Buddhist Practice of Dream Meditation in Medieval Japan

NASU Eisho

Memory and Imagination: Essays and Explorations in Buddhist Thought and Culture (Nagata Bunshōdō), 73-89, Jun, 2010 Invited
Chistian Critique of Pure Land Buddhism: Fabain Fucan's Acceptance of Kokaku's Jōdoshigi Theory in the Myōtei mondō

NASU Eisho

Humanity and Religion in an Age of Science: Festschrift in Commemoration of the Retirement of Professor Ryusei Takeda, 283-297, Mar, 2010 Invited
20

The Concept of the Stage of Non-Retrogression (futaiten) in Genshin's Amidakyo-ryakki (Brief Notes on the Amida Sutra)

NASU Eisho

Journal of Shin Buddhist Studies, (121) 1-13, Mar, 2010 Peer-reviewed
A Brief Note on the Hymn Expelling Seven Hardships

NASU Eisho

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 59(1) 91-94, 2010 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

Richard D. McBride II. Aspiring to Enlightenment: Pure Land Buddhism in Silla Korea

NASU Eisho

The Eastern Buddhist, 3rd ser, 2(2) 85-88, Jan, 2023 Invited
玄智『考信録』の基礎的研究

那須英勝, 内田准心, 内手弘太

世界仏教文化研究論叢, 60 21, Mar 12, 2022
14

Three Birds with One Stone

Nasu Eisho

Shin Buddhist, 13, Mar, 2022 Invited
Guradians of the Buddha's House: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū, by Jessica Starling

Nasu Eisho

The Journal of Japanese Studies, 47(1) 136-140, Mar, 2021 Invited
Ryōgen

NASU Eisho

Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Religion (http://religion.oxfordre.com), Feb, 2020 Peer-reviewedInvited
Rennyo

NASU Eisho

Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Religion (http://religion.oxfordre.com), Mar, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvited
Genshin’s Ōjōyōshū and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan, by Robert F. Rhodes

NASU Eisho

Journal of Religion in Japan, 6(3) 281-285, Mar, 2018 Invited
A Study of the Gemaben (How to Liberate Evil Spirits) by Seijōsai Seigai

NASU Eisho

90 209-202, Mar, 2017
Conducting and Evaluating Interfaith Education: Understanding Its Significance from an International Perspective

NASU Eisho

Journal of Kyoto Graduate Union of Religious Studies, (10) 32-35, Mar, 2016 Invited
Clark Chilson, Secrecy’s Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contraditions of Concealment, University of Hawaii Press, 2014, 235pp.

NASU Eisho

Journal of Religious Studies, Japanese Association for Religious Studies, 89(1) 100-104, Jun, 2015 Invited
Practices and Challenges for Interfaith Education in a Religiously Pluralistic Age

NASU Eisho

Journal of Religious Studies (Suppl.), Japanese Association for Religious Studies, 88 139-145, Mar, 2015 Corresponding author
A European Myokonin and His Non-antithetical Thought(The Non-antithetical Thought of Myokonin (Wondrous, Excellent Persons),Panels,THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES)

NASU Eisho

Journal of religious studies, 87 95-96, 2014 Corresponding author
Japanese Religiosity Viewed through the American Religious Situation

NASU Eisho

Journal of Religious Studies, Japanese Association for Religious Studies, 86巻(4号) 134-135, Mar, 2013
Toward the Contemporary Understanding of Myōkōnin's Words and Actions

NASU Eisho, e

Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, 59(2) 273-274, Dec, 2011
34

The Collected Works of Shinran. 2 vols. Kyoto:Jōdo Shinshū Hongwanji-ha, 1997. xii, 706 pages (volume 1); viii,364 pages (volume 2).

NASU Eisho

Pacific World, Journal of Institute of Buddhist Studies, Third Series(2) 257-264, Mar, 2000 Invited
25

Meanings of No Meaning: A Reflection on Methods of Presenting Shinran’s Writings in English

NASU Eisho

Shin Buddhist, (5) 64-78, Mar, 2000 Invited
Development of Amida's Original Vows in the Various Translations of the Larger Sukhāvaīvyūha Sutra

Nasu Eisho

Ryukoku University the bulletin of the Graduate School. Humanities, 8 76-79, Mar, 1987

Books and Other Publications

龍谷大学真宗学一〇〇年史

那須英勝 (Role: Joint author, 共編者として全体の構想と、第二部に論文を一編を寄稿した)

永田文昌堂, Feb, 2024 (ISBN: 9784816230578)
仏教と日本Ⅱ

日本仏教学会

法藏館, May, 2021 (ISBN: 9784831877307)
Japanese Buddhism in the International Community

NASU Eisho (Role: Contributor, Japanese Buddhism in Multicultural Society: Revisioning from Transnational Perspective)

Maruzen Publishing, Jan, 2020 (ISBN: 9784621304846)
The Buddhism of the Present-day Japan and the Female

NASU Eisho (Role: Joint editor)

Hozokan, Mar, 2019 (ISBN: 9784831860163)
The Dawn of Buddhist Missionary Documents in English

NAKANISHI Naoki, NASU Eisho, DAKE Mitsuya, Eds (Role: Joint editor)

Hōzōkan, Jan, 2018 (ISBN: 9784831855534)
Collected Works of Myōkōnin Studies

KIKUFUJI Amimichi (Role: Contributor, European Myōkōnin and His "Non-antithetical" Thought: Brief Notes on the Life of Rev. Harry Pieper, p. 649-664)

Hōzōkan, Oct, 2016 (ISBN: 9784831823557)
Memory and Imagination: Essays and Explorations in Buddhist Thought and Culture

Dr. Ronald, Y, Nakasone Festschrift, Committee, Ed (Role: Joint editor, Managing Editor)

Nagata Bunshōdō, Jun, 2010 (ISBN: 9784816211386)
Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism

NASU Eisho (Role: Contributor, Rely on the Meaning, Not the Words: Shinran’s Methodology and Strategy for Reading Scriptures and Writing the Kyōgyōshinshō)

Routledge, London, May, 2006 (ISBN: 0415544459)
The Rhinoceros Horn : The Propagation of Jōdo Shinshū to the World

MATSUMOTO David, KAWASOE Taishin, NASU Eisho, Eds (Role: Joint editor)

Nagata Bunshōdō, Nov, 2005 (ISBN: 9784816262036)
Engaged Pure Land Buddhism: Challenges Facing Jōdo Shinshū in the Contemporary World

Kenneth K. Tanaka, Eisho Nasu (Role: Joint editor)

WisdomOcean Publications, 1998 (ISBN: 0965806219)

Presentations

Light, Visions, and the Name: Medieval Japanese Pure Land Approaches to the True Nature of Reality

Eisho Nasu

International Symposium Hosted by Otani University Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute, Dec 16, 2023 Invited
認識の非境・対境・過境―梅原眞隆師の「聖の三様態」説に学ぶ―

那須英勝

真宗連合学会第69回大会, Jun 17, 2023
近世仏教の仕舞としての山海里の世界観：大行寺信暁からラフカディオ・ハーンまで

那須英勝

第640回武蔵野大学日曜講演会, May 21, 2023 Invited
Pure Land as “Real Existence” and Pure Land as an “Imaginary Concept”: Early Modern Buddhist Soteriology as Reflected in Japanese Christian’s Doctrinal Texts

NASU Eisho

Nihon Buddhist Research Association, Aug 31, 2019
Genshin’s Development of a Method for Contemplating Amida’s Byakugō and Its Influence on Japanese Pure Land Practice

NASU Eisho

The 19th Biennial Meeting of the Internatiおnal Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, May 25, 2019, International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
Karmic Evil (悪業 akugō), Sin, Suffering, and Predestination: A Shin-Buddhist Perspective

NASU Eisho

Shin-Buddhist, Muslim, Christian Trialogue, No. 2, Jul 13, 2017, Muenster University, Georgetown University, and Ryukoku University Center for Asian Buddhist Cultures Invited
Discarding Self to Benefit Others Alone: Genshin’s Reformulation of Bodhicitta as Selfless”Great Compassion

NASU Eisho

18th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, Jul 2, 2017, International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
Relativizing the Monotheistic Discourses of Creation: Two Buddhists’ Views

NASU Eisho

nternational Symposium on Shin Buddhism, Christianity, Islam: Conversations in Comparative Theology, Feb 16, 2017, Ryukoku University, Center for Buddhist Culture in Asia Invited
棲浄斎誓鎧師（一七五三-一八二九）「解魔弁」考

那須英勝

日本宗教学会第75回学術大会, Sep 10, 2016, 日本宗教学会
宗教多元時代における宗教間教育の実践とその課題

那須英勝

日本宗教学会第73回学術大会, Sep 13, 2014, 日本宗教学会
中世浄土信仰と破地獄文：「玄通蘇生譚」の流伝について

那須英勝

日本印度学仏教学会第65回学術大会, Aug 30, 2014, 日本印度学仏教学会
宗教間教育の実践とその評価：海外の事例との比較を通じて

那須英勝

第13回K-GURS宗教研究会宗教多元時代における宗教間教育（Interfaith Education）2, Jul 19, 2014, 京都・宗教系大学院連合
ヨーロッパの妙好人と「無対辞」の思想（パネル発表：妙好人における無対辞の思想）

日本宗教学会72回学術大会, 2013
Genshin’s Discovery of the Easy Way to Receive Confirmation for Enlightenment (vyākaraṇa) in the Present Life

NASU Eisho

16th Biennial Conference of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, 2013, International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
アメリカの宗教事情と日本人の宗教性（パネル発表：日本人の宗教性を問うー欧・米・韓・日の宗教事情を通してー）

日本宗教学会71回学術大会, 2012
聖覚法印の妹浄意尼の事跡について

日本印度学仏教学会63回学術大会, 2012
『私聚百因縁集』に見える中世日本仏教僧の重層的世界観

RUBeC第2回国際シンポジウム「日本の仏教と文化」(龍谷大学・スタンフォード大学仏教学研究所共催), 2011
Muryōjukyō in East Asian tradition prior to Shinran

International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Shinran and The Sutra of Immeasurable Life, at the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, CA, 2011
Jōdo Shinshū’s Doctrinal Reflection on the Possibility of Children Attaining Birth in the Pure Land (shōni ōjō)

American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting 2011, 2011
日本中世社会における専修念仏の社会性：「七難消滅の誦文」再考

真宗学研究学会第三十回大会, 2011

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

日本仏教の通時的・共時的研究―多文化共生社会における課題と展望―

私立大学戦略的研究基盤形成支援事業, 文部科学省, Apr, 2015 - Mar, 2020

楠淳證
仏教と諸科学の学際的研究

私立大学戦略的研究基盤形成支援事業, 文部科学省, Mar, 2010 - Mar, 2013

鍋島直樹

Social Activities

The Year 1224: The Significance of the Establishment of the Jodo Shinshu Tradition

Lecturer

Hompa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii, 2024 HHMH Triple Celebration Online Buddhist Education Series, Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii (YouTube), Mar 16, 2024 - Mar 16, 2024
近世仏教の仕舞としての山海里の世界観ー大行寺信暁からラフカディオ・ハーンまでー

Lecturer

武蔵野大学, 第640回武蔵野大学日曜講演会, May 21, 2023
コミュニティーベースの寺院運営ーアメリカ真宗寺院の事例に学ぶー

Lecturer

浄土真宗本願寺派・兵庫教区, 兵庫教区組長・副組長等合同研修会, Jun 5, 2019
Karmic Evil, Amida’s Directing of Virtue, and Their Moral Implications in Shin Buddhist Faith and Practice

Lecturer

Buddhist Study Center and Ryukoku Universituy, BSC-Ryukoku Lecture, Mar 7, 2019
キャンプ（強制収容所）に咲いた「ダルマ」の花：田名大正師（1907～1972）と玉井好孝師（1900～1983）の戦時収容所での文書伝道に学ぶ

Lecturer

本願寺国際センターゼミナール（惠範講座）, 本願寺国際センターゼミナール（惠範講座）宗教対立時代の真宗 (第4回)「海外への開教」, 浄土真宗本願寺派国際センター, Feb 10, 2017
Genshin's Dialogical Hermeneutics to the Tendai Pure Land Buddhism and His Influence to the Formation of Shinran's Thought

Lecturer

Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California, IBS-Ryukoku Lecture, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley, California, Mar 7, 2016 - Mar 9, 2016
Shinran and Farming Communities in Eastern Japan

Lecturer

Institute of Buddhist Studies, Buddhism and Agriculture: 2016 IBS Winter Symposium, Mar 3, 2016
多様化するアメリカ人の宗教観と仏教の伝道・アメリカの宗教事情と日本人の宗教性

Lecturer

東国大學校・龍谷大学共催, 東国大学・龍谷大学交換出張講義, 東国大學校佛教大學、大韓民国ソウル市, Sep 17, 2014 - Sep 18, 2014
The Variety of Shinran's Expressions of shinjin ('Entrusting Mind'): Understanding the Working of Buddha-Nature in Everyday Living

Lecturer

EKO-Haus der Japanischen Kultur, Düsseldorf, Germany, Seminar der Gemeinschaft der europäischen Shin-Buddhisten, Nov 23, 2012 - Nov 25, 2012

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