William Bodiford

Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures

Department: Asian Languages and Cultures

Royce Hall 290 - Box 951540
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1540
Campus mailcode: 154003
Tel: 310-794-8939
bodiford@ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Asia, Buddhist Studies, Japan

Publications

Books and Edited Volumes

Sôtô Zen in Medieval Japan. Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 8. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1993.

Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya. Studies in East Asian Buddhism, no. 18. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.

Encyclopedia of Buddhism. 2 vols. Associate editor. Robert E. Buswell, Jr., Editor in Chief. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.

Articles, Essays, and Translations

 

"The Medieval Period: Eleventh to Sixteenth Centuries" [and 1 more contribution]. In The Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions, edited by Paul L. Swanson and Clark Chilson. Pp. 161–181. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.

"Zen and Japanese Swordsmanship Reconsidered." In Budo Perspectives, edited by Alexander Bennett. Pp. 69–103. Auckland: Kendo World Publications, 2005.

"Dogen" [and 1 more entry]. In Encyclopedia of Religion. 2d edition. Edited by Lindsay Jones. Vol. 4, pp. 2385–2387. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.

"Karma Tales" [and 4 other chapters]. In Buddhist Scriptures. Edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Pp. 24–33. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.

"Monastic Militias" [and 6 other entries]. In Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Edited by Robert E. Buswell, Jr. Vol. 2, pp. 560–561. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004.

"Colloquial Transcriptions as Sources for Understanding Zen in Japan." By Ishikawa Rikizan. Translated and Introduced by William M. Bodiford. The Eastern Buddhist, new series, 36, no. 1 (2002): 120–142.

"The Myth of Zen in the Art of Archery." By Yamada Shoji. Translated by Earl Hartman. Edited by William M. Bodiford. The Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 28, nos. 1–2 (2001): 1–30.

"Religion and Spiritual Development: Japan" [and 1 more entry]. In Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas A. Green. Vol. 2, pp. 472–505. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2001.

"Zen Buddhism." Chapter 14 of Sources of Japanese Tradition. Second edition. Volume One: From Earliest Times to 1600. Compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Donald Keene, George Tanabe, and Paul Varley with the collaboration of William Bodiford, Jurgis Elisonas, and Philip Yampolsky. Pp. 306–335. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

"Emptiness and Dust: Zen Dharma Transmission Rituals." In Tantra in Practice, edited by David Gordon White. Pp. 299–307. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

"Kokan Shiren's 'Zen Precept Procedures'" [and 2 other chapters]. In Religions of Japan in Practice, edited by George J. Tanabe, Jr. Pp. 98–108. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999.