the Institute of Buddhist Studies

Eisho Nasu

Hongwanji Professor of Jodo Shinshu Studies
At IBS since 1996

Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, 1996
M.A. Graduate Theological Union/Institute of Buddhist Studies, 1990
M.A. Ryukoku University, Kyoto, 1986
B.A. Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, 1983

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• History of Pure Land Buddhist Thought
• Shin Buddhist History and Thought
• Works of Shinran
• Readings in Mahayana Texts: the Three Pure Land Sutras

Selected Publications

"Rely on the Meaning, Not the Words: Shinran's Methodology and Strategy for Reading Scriptures and Writing the Kyōgyōshinshō," in Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, edited by Richard K. Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton (London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 240–262.

"Introduction of the Chinese God of the Dead into Medieval Japanese Religious Culture: A Study of Taizanfukun-san (Rites Honoring T'ai-shan Fu-chün)," in Asaeda Zenshō Hakase kanreki kinen ronbunshū: Bukkyō to ningen shagaki no kenkyū (Kyoto: Nagata Bunshodo, 2004), 277–299.

"The Pure Land and the Lotus: Zonkaku's Ecumenical Vision of the One Vehicle (ekayana)," The Pure Land, New Series, No. 20 (2003): 33–50.

"Naming the Vows: Ryogen's Kuhon ojogi and Its Influence on Shinran's Thought," The Pure Land, New Series, No. 18 and 19 (2002): 89–98.

Books Co-edited

Engaged Pure Land Buddhism: Challenges Facing Jōdo Shinshū in the Contemporary World, Studies in Honor of Professor Alfred Bloom, edited by Kenneth K. Tanaka and Eisho Nasu (Berkeley, California: WisdomOcean Publications, 1998).

Sai no tsuno: Sekai ni hiraku Shinshū dendō (The Rhinoceros Horn: The Propagation of Jōdo Shinshyū to the World), edited by David Matsumoto, Taishin Kawasoe, and Eisho Nasu (Kyoto: Nagata Bunshōdō, 2005).

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