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Order of Pragmatic
Buddhists:
OPB Formal Education Curriculum
OPB Dharma Scroll
Required Readings
(Formal
Student):
1) Buddhism Without Beliefs (Stephen
Batchelor)
2) Intimacy or Integrity: Philosophy and Cultural
Difference (Thomas Patrick Kasulis)
Buddhist Studies
Courses
(Formal
Student):
BSC-1: PRAGMATIC BUDDHISM (Foundations
of Daily Practice)
BSC-2: PRAGMATIC BUDDHISM (Philosophical
Considerations)
BSC-3: COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY (Worldviews, Pluralism
& Pragmatism)
Required Readings
(Novice):
1) One (1) of the following:
----Daodejing: "Making This Life Significant": A
Philosophical Translation (Roger T. Ames & David L.
Hall)
----Yuan Dao: Tracing the Dao to Its Source (Roger T. Ames)
2) Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis (David J.
Kalupahana)
3) Chan Buddhism (Peter D. Hershock)
4) Zen Action, Zen Person (Thomas P. Kasulis)
5) One (1) of the following:
----In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from
the Pali Canon (Bhikkhu Bodhi)
----How Buddhism Began: The Conditioned Genesis of the
Early Teachings-2nd Edition (Richard F. Gombrich)
----Early Buddhism-A New Approach: The I of the Beholder
(Sue Hamilton)
----A Concise History of Buddhism (Andrew Skilton)
----Buddhism: A History (Noble Ross Reat)
----Ethics in Early Buddhism (David Kalupahana)
6) One (1) of the following:
----Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social
Virtuosity in Chan Buddhism (Peter D. Hershock)
----Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological
Critique of the Chan Tradition (Bernard Faure)
----The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of
Chan/Zen Buddhism (Bernard Faure)
----The Northern School and the Formation of Early Chan
Buddhism (John R. McRae)
----Trust in Mind: The Rebellion of Chinese Zen (Mu Soeng
& Jan Chozen Bays)
7) One (1) of the following:
----The Heart of Dogen's Shobogenzo (Norman Waddel &
Masao Abe)
----The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen's
Bendowa (Kosho Uchiyama Roshi)
----The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism (David
Edward Shaner)
----Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto
School (James W. Heisig)
----The Nothingness Beyond God: An Introduction to the
Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro (Robert E. Carter)
----Last Writings: Nothingness and the Religious Worldview
by Nishida Kitaro (David A. Dilworth)
----Watsuji Tetsuro's Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan
(Yamamoto Seisaku & Robert E. Carter)
----Logic of Nothingness: A Study of Nishida Kitaro (Robert
J. J. Wargo)
8) One (1) of the following:
----Pragmatism: A Reader (Louis Menand)
----Classical American Pragmatism: Its Contemporary
Vitality (Sandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman &
Douglas R. Anderson)
9) The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism (Steve
Odin)
Buddhist Studies
Courses
(Novice):
BSC-4: DAOISM (DaoDeJing & Yuan Dao:
Primary Sources in Philosophical Daoism)
BSC-5: EARLY BUDDHISM (Siddhartha Gautama
& Indian Philosophy)
BSC-6: EARTLY BUDDHISM (Causality, Karma
& Buddhist Ethics)
BSC-7: CHAN BUDDHISM (The Early Patriarchs:
Bodhidharma to Wei Neng)
BSC-8: CHAN BUDDHISM (The Formation of a New
Approach to Buddhism)
BSC-9: ZEN BUDDHISM (Kukai & Dogen)
BSC-10: ZEN BUDDHISM (Nishida Kitaro &
The Kyoto School)
BSC-11: CLASSICAL AMERICAN PRAGMATISM (The
Fathers of American Pragmatism: James & Dewey)
BSC-12: CLASSICAL AMERICAN PRAGMATISM (Mead
& the Social Self)
OPB Group Readings:
1) February 2008--"Dialogues with Death: The Last
Days of Socrates and the Buddha" by Matthew Dillon
(Philosophy East & West, Vol 50, No 4, Oct 2000 pp.
525-558)--Discussion: Friday, March 7.
2) March 2008--"The Agnostic Buddhist" by
Stephen Batchelor--Discussion: Friday, March 21.
3) April 2008--"Avoiding Unintended Harm to the
Environment and the Buddhist Ethic of Intention" by
Peter Harvey--Discussion: Friday, April
11.
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