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- The weirdest people in the world?Joseph Henrich,Steven J. Heine &Ara Norenzayan -2010 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (2-3):61-83.Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world's top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers – often implicitly – assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these “standard subjects” are as representative of the species as any other population. Are these assumptions justified? Here, our review of the comparative database from across the behavioral sciences suggests both that there is (...) substantial variability in experimental results across populations and that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of the species – frequent outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, cooperation, spatial reasoning, categorization and inferential induction, moral reasoning, reasoning styles, self-concepts and related motivations, and the heritability of IQ. The findings suggest that members of WEIRD societies, including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans. Many of these findings involve domains that are associated with fundamental aspects of psychology, motivation, and behavior – hence, there are no obviousa priorigrounds for claiming that a particular behavioral phenomenon is universal based on sampling from a single subpopulation. Overall, these empirical patterns suggests that we need to be less cavalier in addressing questions ofhumannature on the basis of data drawn from this particularly thin, and rather unusual, slice of humanity. We close by proposing ways to structurally re-organize the behavioral sciences to best tackle these challenges. (shrink)
- Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?Steven H. Heine,Darrin R. Lehman,Hazel Rose Markus &Shinobu Kitayama -1999 -Psychological Review 106 (4):766-794.No categories
- Is there a universal need for positive self-regard?Steven J. Heine,Darrin R. Lehman,Hazel Rose Markus &Shinobu Kitayama -1999 -Psychological Review 106 (4):766-794.No categories
- Making Sense of Genetics:The Problem of Essentialism.Steven J. Heine,Benjamin Y. Cheung &Anita Schmalor -2019 -Hastings Center Report 49 (S1):19-26.Abstract“Psychological essentialism” refers to our tendency to view the natural world as emerging from the result of deep, hidden, and internal forces called “essences.” People tend to believe that genes underlie a person’s identity. People encounter information about genetics on a regular basis, as through media such as a New York Times piece “Infidelity Lurks in Your Genes” or a 23andMe commercial showing people acquiring new ethnic identities as the result of their genotyping. How do people make sense of new (...) scientific findings that are inherently complex if they don’t have years of specialized training and education at their disposal? Given the substantial overlap between a lay understanding of genetics and lay intuitions about essences, we argue that, when most people are thinking about genes, they are not really thinking about genes in the complex ways that good scientists are. Combating people’s essentialist biases can be a formidable challenge. Although we have identified some promising results of trying to reduce people’s genetic essentialist tendencies, there is still much to learn about how these essentialist biases can be countered. It is important to help people understand genetic information so they are able make well‐informed decisions about their lives. (shrink)
- Existential and Ontological Dimensions of Time in Heidegger and Dogen.Steven Heine -1985 - State University of New York Press.Heine provides new insight into Dogen's philosophy as seen in the "Uji" chapter of Dogen's Shorogenzo. The book features a new annotated translation of the "Uji" and a glossary of Japanese terms.
- Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School, and the Question of Nationalism.Steven Heine,James W. Heisig &John C. Maraldo -1997 -Philosophy East and West 47 (3):439.
- The Common Pain of Surrealism and Death: Acetaminophen Reduces Compensatory Affirmation Following Meaning Threats.Daniel Randles,Steven J. Heine &Nathan Santos -2013 -Psychological Science 24 (6):966-973.The meaning-maintenance model posits that any violation of expectations leads to an affective experience that motivates compensatory affirmation. We explore whether the neural mechanism that responds to meaning threats can be inhibited by acetaminophen, in the same way that acetaminophen inhibits physical pain or the distress caused by social rejection. In two studies, participants received either acetaminophen or a placebo and were provided with either an unsettling experience or a control experience. In Study 1, participants wrote about either their death (...) or a control topic. In Study 2, participants watched either a surrealist film clip or a control film clip. In both studies, participants in the meaning-threat condition who had taken a placebo showed typical compensatory affirmations by becoming more punitive toward lawbreakers, whereas those who had taken acetaminophen, and those in the control conditions, did not. (shrink)
- Shifting Shape, Shaping Text: Philosophy and Folklore in the Fox Koan.Steven Heine -1999 - University of Hawaii Press.According to the fox koan, the second case in the Wu-men kuan koan collection, Zen master Pai-chang encounters a fox who claims to be a former abbot punished through endless reincarnations for denying the efficacy of karmic causality. In the end he is liberated by Pai-chang's turning word, which asserts the inexorability of cause-and-effect. Most traditional interpretations of the koan focus on the philosophical issue of causality in relation to earlier Buddhist doctrines, such as dependent origination and emptiness. Dogen, the (...) founder of the Japanese Soto school, devoted two fascicles of the Shobogenzo exclusively to the fox koan. One fascicle supports a paradoxical view of causality and non-causality, the two being "two sides of the same coin"; the second strongly attacks this interpretation and defends a literal reading that asserts causality and denies non-causality. Dogen's apparent change of heart on this topic has inspired scholars of the recent Critical Buddhist methodology to evaluate the merits and weaknesses in Zen's attitude toward ethical issues and social affairs. Shifting Shape, Shaping Text examines the fox koan in relation to philosophical and institutional issues facing the Ch'an/Zen tradition in both Sung China and medieval and contemporary Japan. Steven Heine integrates his own philological analysis of the koan, textual analysis of koan collections and related literary genres in T'ang and Sung China, folklore studies, recent discourse theory, Dogen studies, and research on monastic codes and institutional history to craft an original and compelling work. More specifically, he illuminates a fascinating dimension of the entire Ch'an/Zen tradition as he carefully lays out the philosophical issues in the koan concerning causality/karma and enlightenment, the ethical issues contained therein, the bearing that certain interpretations of causality had on the creation of monastic codes and institutional security in China, the relation between Zen and folk religion as revealed by the koan, and the issue of possible antinomianism in Zen, especially as grappled with by later thinkers such as Dogen and contemporary representatives of Critical Buddhism. Finally he applies theories of "high" and "low" religion and contemporary discourse and in the process rethinks the theories and their applicability across cultures. Far-reaching yet rigorous, Shifting Shape, Shaping Text will not only attract the interest of Ch'an/Zen specialists, but also those studying folklore, popular religion, and issues concerning the nature of discourse and the relation between "high" and "low" religions. (shrink)No categories
- US Immigrants’ Patterns of Acculturation are Sensitive to Their Age, Language, and Cultural Contact but Show No Evidence of a Sensitive Window for Acculturation.Maciej Chudek,Benjamin Y. Cheung &Steven J. Heine -2015 -Journal of Cognition and Culture 15 (1-2):174-190.Recent research observed a sensitive window, at about 14 years of age, in the acculturation rates of Chinese immigrants to Canada. Tapping an online sample ofusimmigrants, we tested these relationships in a broader population and explored connections with new potentially causally related variables: formal education, language ability and contact with heritage-culture and mainstream United States individuals, both now and at immigration. While we found that acculturation decreased with age at immigration and increased with years in theus, we did not observe (...) a similar sensitive window. We also present an exploratory path analysis, exposing the relationships in our sample between acculturation and the variables above. The novel relationships documented here can improve theorising about this rich and complex empirical phenomenon. (shrink)No categories
- Chan rhetoric of uncertainty in the Blue Cliff Record: sharpening a sword at the dragon gate.Steven Heine -2016 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.This book provides an innovative, critical textual and literary analysis, in light of Song dynasty (960-11279) Chinese cultural and intellectual historical trends, of the Blue Cliff Record, the seminal Chan/Zen Buddhist collection of commentaries on one hundred gongan/koan cases long celebrated for its intricate and articulate interpretative methods.
- The power of denial: Buddhism, purity, and gender.Bernard Faure &Steven Heine -2004 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (3):409–412.
- Minimalism and Pragmatism in a Chan Gongan Commentary: Philosophical Reflections on Tongxuan’s 100 Questions.Steven Heine &Xiaohuan Cao -2025 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 51 (2-3):123-136.This paper provides a translation of the first twenty-five cases of the gongan collection, Tongxuan’s 100 Questions (Tongxuan Baiwen《玄百問》), which features terse responses to Tongxuan’s queries proffered by Wansong Xingxiu along with verse comments added by his main disciple Linquan Conglun. The conciseness expressed by leading Caodong school thinkers at the dawn of the Yuan period creates a minimalist discourse replete with paradox, indirection, and deceptively artless depictions of nature to disclose a pragmatist view of realization that seeks to situate (...) Chan as the basis for the three teachings of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. (shrink)
- Koans in the dogen tradition: How and why dogen does what he does with koans.Steven Heine -2004 -Philosophy East and West 54 (1):1-19.: A hallmark of Dogen's legacy is his introduction of Chinese Ch'an koan literature to Japan in the first half of the thirteenth century and his unique and innovative style of interpreting dozens of koan cases, many of which are relatively obscure or otherwise untreated in the annals. What constitutes the distinctiveness of Dogen's approach? According to Hee-Jin Kim's seminal study, Dogen shifts from an instrumental to a realizational model of koan interpretation. While this essay agrees with some features of (...) Kim's approach, especially his emphasis on the importance of language, it is argued that Kim overlooks the diversity of aims and intentions in Dogen's use of rhetorical and narrative strategies to highlight diverse doctrinal and ritual themes. There is no single underlying view of koans for Dogen, who continually modifies his interpretive approach to particular cases in order to articulate specific themes. (shrink)
- Zen Master Dōgen: Philosopher and Poet of Impermanence.Steven Heine -2016 - In Gereon Kopf,The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 381-405.Zen master Dōgen 道元, the founder of the Sōtō sect in medieval Japan, is often referred to as the leading classical philosopher in Japanese history and one of the foremost exponents of Mahayana Buddhist thought. His essays, sermons and poems on numerous Buddhist topics included in his main text, the Shōbōgenzō 正法眼蔵, reflect an approach to religious experience based on a more philosophical analysis of topics such as time and temporality, impermanence and momentariness, the universality of Buddha-nature and naturalism, and (...) the role of language and emotions in the experience of enlightenment, as well as practical matters such as ethics and the precepts or meditation and daily activity, than is generally found in the writings of most thinkers in the Japanese Zen school. The single main element in Dōgen’s unique approach to Buddhist theory and practice is his emphasis on the multiple meanings of “impermanence” in personal experience and as the basis for Buddhist metaphysics. In particular, he emphasizes the radical impermanence of each and every phenomenon and the need to attain spiritual realization by acknowledging and identifying, rather than resisting or denying, the ephemeral nature of reality. The notion of impermanence or the transiency of all aspects of human and natural existence has always been a fundamental feature of the Buddhist teaching since the sermons of the Buddha dealing with the doctrines of anātman and anitya regarding the insubstantial, selfless nature of things. However, Dōgen repeatedly cautions against any subtle tendency to view ultimate reality––nirvāṇa or the universal “Buddha-nature” ––as an eternal realm separable from, or independent of, impermanence. Instead, he stresses that a full, unimpeded, and perpetually renewed experience of impermanence and of the unity of “being-time” is the touchstone and framework of every aspect of Buddhist meditative training and spiritual realization. Other key doctrines related to this are the “spontaneous here-and-now manifestation of Zen enlightenment”, the “eternal moment of meditation”, the “immediacy of awakening”, and “impermanence-Buddha-nature”. In addition to looking at Dōgen’s poetic writings on aesthetic experience, later writings on karma and supernaturalism will be briefly examined for their contributions to his philosophical discussions of mystical awareness and the issues of commitment and responsibility involved in authentic religious practice. (shrink)
- From art of war to Attila the hun: A critical survey of recent works on philosophy/spirituality and business leadership.Steven Heine -2008 -Philosophy East and West 58 (1):126-143.
- Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters.Steven Heine -2002 - Oup Usa.A new translation with critical commentary of sixty Zen Koans - the first book to place the koan in its tradition of supernatural narratives.No categories
- History, transhistory, and narrative history: A postmodern view of Nishitani's philosophy of zen.Steven Heine -1994 -Philosophy East and West 44 (2):251-278.
- Philosophy for an 'age of death': The critique of science and technology in Heidegger and Nishitani.Steven Heine -1990 -Philosophy East and West 40 (2):175-193.
- The Dōgen canon: Dōgen’s pre-Shōbōgenzō writings and the question of change in his later works.Steven Heine -1997 -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 24 (1-2):39-85.
- Poetry as Philosophy in Song-Dynasty Chan Buddhist Discourse.Steven Heine -2023 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 50 (2):168-181.This paper examines ways leading Song-dynasty Chan teachers, especially Cishou Huaishen 慈受懷深 (1077–1132), a prominent poet-monk (shiseng 詩僧) and temple abbot from the Yunmen lineage, transform the intricate rhetorical techniques of Chinese poetry in order to explicate the relationship between an experience of spiritual realization beyond language and logic and the ethical decision-making of everyday life that is inspired by transcendent principles. Huaishen’s poetry expresses didactic Buddhist doctrines showing how an awareness of nonduality and the surpassing of all conceptual boundaries (...) and categories can and must be applied to negotiating moral choices in concrete everyday situations that are either conducive or detrimental to the attainment of enlightenment. My main argument is that Song Chan discourse does not lead to antinomianism or an indifference to the conflicts of the mundane world but, instead, features an ethical approach for determining an aspirant’s degree of illumination. This function is central to the school’s overall teaching mission of assisting those seeking to overcome their egocentric delusions by realizing the benefits of Chan insight. (shrink)
- The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School.Steven Heine -1984 -Philosophy East and West 34 (4):459-461.
- A critical survey of works on zen since Yampolsky.Steven Heine -2007 -Philosophy East and West 57 (4):577-592.
- A Dream Within a Dream: Studies in Japanese Thought.Steven Heine -1991 - Asian Thought and Culture.This book is a collection of articles by one of the leading scholars in Japanese thought dealing with three areas of Japanese philosophy and religion: Dôgen's Zen view of liberation, including the key doctrines of casting off body-mind, being-time, and spontaneous manifestation of the kôan; the relation between Buddhism, literary aesthetics, and folk religion; and a comparison of Japanese and Western thought, particularly Heidegger, on science, language, and death. The central theme throughout these essays is the meaning of time and (...) impermanence in Japanese religion and culture based on Buddhist contemplation. The book's title refers to a phrase used by Dôgen, the dramatist Chikamatsu, and others that plays on the twofold image of «dream» representing either the fleeting world of illusion or the nonsubstantial realm of ultimate reality. One of the articles is a new annotated translation of Dôgen's Shôbôgenzô «Muchû setsumu» («Disclosing a Dream Within a Dream») fascicle. Other essays offer novel interpretations of Chikamatsu and Kyoto-school thinkers Kuki Shûzô and Nishitani Keiji in addition to Japanese folk religion. (shrink)
- A New Book of Japanese Sources.Steven Heine -2013 -Philosophy East and West 63 (1):88-91.
- After the Storm: Matsumoto Shirō's Transition from "Critical Buddhism" to Critical Theology.Steven Heine -2001 -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 28 (1-2):133-156.Export citation
Bookmark - Buddhisms and deconstructions (review).Steven Heine -2008 -Philosophy East and West 58 (4):pp. 594-596.
- “critical Buddhism” And The Debate Concerning The 75-fascicle And 12-fascicle Shōbōgenzō Texts.Steven Heine -1994 -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 21 (1):37-72.No categories
- Critical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought by James Mark Shields.Steven Heine -2015 -Philosophy East and West 65 (3):979-981.
- Ch’an Buddhist Kung-Ans as Models for Interpersonal Behaviorch.Steven Heine -2003 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 30 (3-4):525-540.
- Did Dōgen Go to China? Problematizing Dōgen’s Relation to Ju-ching and Chinese Ch ’an‘.Steven Heine -2003 -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30 (1-2):27-59.
- Does Even a Rat Have Buddha‐Nature? Analyzing Key‐Phrase Rhetoric for the Wu Gongan.Steven Heine -2014 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 41 (3-4):250-267.The Wu Gongan is primarily known for its minimalist expression based on Zhaozhou's “No” response to a monk's question of whether a dog has Buddha-nature. Crucial for the key-phrase method of meditation of Dahui Zonggao, the term Wu is not to be analyzed through logic or poetry. However, an overemphasis on the nondiscursive quality overlooks sophisticated rhetoric through metaphors used for the anxiety of doubt caused by Wu undermining conventional assumptions that is compared to a cornered rat; and the experience (...) of enlightenment generated by the power of Wu likened to a sword cutting through all delusions. (shrink)
- Evolutionary explanations need to account for cultural variation.Steven J. Heine,William von Hippel &Robert Trivers -2011 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34 (1):26.Cultural variability in self-enhancement is far more pronounced than the authors suggest; the sum of the evidence does not show that East Asians self-enhance in different domains from Westerners. Incorporating this cultural variation suggests a different way of understanding the adaptiveness of self-enhancement: It is adaptive in contexts where positive self-feelings and confidence are valued over relationship harmony, but is maladaptive in contexts where relationship harmony is prioritized.
- Going Out to Sea: Dōgen’s Ongoing Emphasis on the Creative Ambiguity of Horizons.Steven Heine -2023 - In Ralf Müller & George Wrisley,Dōgen’s Texts: Manifesting Religion and/as Philosophy? Springer Verlag. pp. 19-40.The aim of this chapter is to explore and examine what hermeneutic methods can and should be summoned in order to interpret critically an intriguing yet endlessly puzzling sentence in the “Genjōkōan” (現成公案) fascicle of Sōtō sect founder Dōgen’s (道元, 1200–1253) Shōbōgenzō (正法眼蔵). The source material deals with the way perspectives shift dramatically “when riding a boat out to sea, where mountains can no longer be seen (yamanaki kaichū 山なき海中)”? The analogy of sailing past the horizon, so that any trace (...) of land is not visible, and one feels temporarily encircled by the ocean with no other frame of reference available, raises key phenomenological issues regarding the innate partiality or insufficiency of human perception in connection to the Zen goal of awakening to a holistic standpoint that is devoid of divisibility but incorporates an array of standpoints. This passage has been interpreted in diverse ways since the time of early medieval commentaries by Senne and Kyōgō and by Edo-period Sōtō scholiasts, as well as in modern times by various Japanese philosophers and researchers of Dōgen’s texts. (shrink)No categories
- Is Masao Abe an Original Thinker?Steven Heine -2008 -Buddhist-Christian Studies 28:131-134.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Is Masao Abe an Original Thinker?Steven HeineDuring the course of a remarkable career spanning six decades in various institutions in Japan and the West, beginning with his training under Hisamatsu Shin’ichi at Kyoto University, Masao Abe became known for several important accomplishments in disseminating Buddhist thought in comparative perspectives and global contexts. In addition to his considerable contributions to the teaching and mentoring of several dozen Western scholars of (...) Buddhist studies, a first major achievement was the translation and interpretation of eminent Zen Buddhist thinkers. Abe is especially known for his work on Dōgen, the thirteenth-century founder of the Sōtō Zen sect, and Nishida Kitarō, the leading figure in modern Japanese philosophy and originator of the Kyoto school, of which Abe is considered a prominent member. Abe’s renderings (as a cotranslator) and hermeneutic discussions of Dōgen and Nishida remain among the best and most frequently cited in those respective fields.Second, Abe gained prominence more generally as a presenter of traditional Zen Buddhist thought to the modern West. It was often said that with the passing of D. T. Suzuki in 1966, the mantle was passed to Abe, who became the leading figure playing the role of transmitter. A third accomplishment was Abe’s ever vigorous participation and lifelong commitment to interfaith dialogue, primarily involving Buddhist-Christian studies, as well as exchanges with Jewish thinkers and discussions of thematic issues, such as the encounter of religion and science or the impact of the Holocaust on comparative ethics. The hallmark of the Kyoto school is a comparison of Japanese Buddhism and Western thought. However, Abe went much further than predecessors and colleagues in seeking out and exchanging ideas with dialogue partners from among the leading theologians and philosophers of religion in the West representing a wide ranger of Christian and, to a lesser extent, Jewish traditions.The question that arises is whether and to what extent there may be a fourth area of accomplishment by examining whether Abe can be considered an original thinker, and, if so, what his special contribution to the Kyoto school and cross-cultural religious philosophy in a broader sense might be. Reflecting on this issue, I have often thought about an episode that took place a few years ago, when I requested permission from a journal to reprint an article in a collection of Abe’s work that I was editing for the University of Hawai‘i Press. The editor’s response in consenting to the request [End Page 131] also included the comment that he considered Abe’s contribution to Buddhist studies to be “not a secondary, but a primary source.”What did this remark mean? I believe there are two possibilities. One possibility, on the more critical side, is that Abe does not present Buddhism in an objective, historical fashion and is not worthy of being referred to as a secondary source, which in a way has more validity than what he represents. The positive side of the journal editor’s comment is that Abe’s work offers a distinctively original interpretation that is part of the ongoing construction of Buddhist thought for the modern world. Following this line of understanding, my tentative answer to the question of whether Abe is an original thinker is “yes.” A major reason for my saying this is based on the fact, of which the editor was not aware, that Abe rather late in his life was producing books in Japanese for an audience in Japan rather than the West.1In these three volumes published from 1996 to 2000, Abe began to develop what he innovatively called “sunyata-ology,” or a systematic discussion of the root meaning and far-ranging philosophical implications of the Mahayana Buddhist doctrine of śūnyatā or emptiness. This term is often used interchangeably with the notion of nothingness ( Japanese: mu ), in relation to or in contrast with nihilism, nihilation, and negation. Like his Kyoto school predecessors Nishida and Keiji Nishitani, who were in turn greatly influenced by Western philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, the mission of overcoming nihilism at its root must be the central goal of modern thought, according to Abe, who believes... (shrink)
- Ideal Time and Utopian Space in the Chan Pivot Experience.Steven Heine -2015 -Journal of Chinese Philosophy 42 (5):454-476.Chan Buddhist philosophy as expressed in the Blue Cliff Record and related gongan case commentarial literature is primarily based on the notion of the instantaneous pivot moment, in which a master creates a profound turnaround experience reflecting his own liberation so as to reveal the deficient tendencies of his dialogue partner in a way that leads both parties to enhance their spiritual awareness. What are the implications of the pivot experience for understanding the overall Chan view of time and space? (...) From the standpoint of temporality, Chan emphasizes the unity of momentary experience and continuity unbound yet not oblivious to sequential limitations. In terms of spatiality, the Chan pivot is a universal experience but is realized in particular manifestations of natural phenomena as perceived by an awakened observer. (shrink)
- Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts by Haruo Shirane.Steven Heine -2014 -Philosophy East and West 64 (4):1100-1103.
- Like Cats and Dogs: Contesting the Mu Koan in Zen Buddhism.Steven Heine -2013 - Oup Usa.Steven Heine offers a compelling examination of the Mu Koan, widely considered to be the single best known and most widely circulated and transmitted koan record of the Zen school of Buddhism.
- On the Value of Speaking and Not Speaking.Steven Heine -2013 - In Steven M. Emmanuel,A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 349–365.In considering the role of language in Zen Buddhism, a basic conundrum is immediately confronted. Historical studies demonstrate that in Zen there has been a very large and fundamental role for verbal communication via poetry and prose narratives included in commentaries on enigmatic koans. During Song dynasty China, Zen masters produced an abundant volume of writings that originally were based on the spontaneous and deliberately eccentric oral teachings of Tang dynasty patriarchs. This literature forms the heart of the modes of (...) textual study and ritual practice used in Zen today. Silence has always been highlighted in Zen. Zen's language of non‐language, or vice versa, leaves open the possibility for inventive expression and productive silence to intermingle and to be alternatively used or discarded, as appropriate for particular discursive contexts and pedagogical situations. (shrink)No categories
- Philosophical and Rhetorical Modes in Zen Discourse: Contrasting Nishida's Logic and Koan Poetry.Steven Heine -1997 -Buddhist-Christian Studies 17:3.
- Review article: A Day in the Life: Two Recent Works on Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō “Gyōji” [Sustained Practice] Fascicle.Steven Heine -2008 -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 35 (2):363-372.Export citation Bookmark
- Review article: Yes! We Have No Buddha-Nature: Three Recent Publications on Zen Dialogues.Steven Heine -2010 -Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 37 (2):367-376.Export citation Bookmark
- Readings of Dōgen's "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye".Steven Heine -2019 - Columbia University Press.The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shōbōgenzō) is the masterwork of Dōgen (1200–1253), founder of the Sōtō Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable religious diversity and experimentation. The text is complex and compelling, famed for its eloquent yet perplexing manner of expressing the core precepts of Zen teachings and practice. This book is a comprehensive introduction to this essential Zen text, offering a textual, (...) historical, literary, and philosophical examination of Dōgen’s treatise. Steven Heine explores the religious and cultural context in which the Treasury was composed and provides a detailed study of the various versions of the medieval text that have been compiled over the centuries. He includes nuanced readings of Dōgen’s use of inventive rhetorical flourishes and the range of East Asian Buddhist textual and cultural influences that shaped the work. Heine explicates the philosophical implications of Dōgen’s views on contemplative experience and attaining and sustaining enlightenment, showing the depth of his distinctive understanding of spiritual awakening. Readings of Dōgen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye will give students and other readers a full understanding of this fundamental work of world religious literature. (shrink)No categories
- Response to Graham Parkes' line of digression.Steven Heine -1988 -Philosophy East and West 38 (1):64-67.
- Reply to LaFleur.Steven Heine -1986 -Philosophy East and West 36 (3):287.
- Section II. The Japanese Zen Nexus: 4. The Transmission of the Blue Cliff Record to Medieval Japan: Textuality and Historicity in Relation to Mythology and Demythology.Steven Heine -2022 - In Heine Welter,Approaches to Chan, Sŏn, and Zen studies: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its spread throughout East Asia. Albany: State University of New York Press.Export citation Bookmark
- The Buddha or the Bomb: Ethical Implications in Nishitani Keiji's View of Science.Steven Heine -1991 - In Charles Wei-Hsun Fu & Sandra Ann Wawrytko,Buddhist ethics and modern society: an international symposium. New York: Greenwood Press. pp. 281--295.
- The Chan Whip Anthology: A Companion to Zen Practice by Jeffrey L. Broughton.Steven Heine -2015 -Philosophy East and West 65 (4):1291-1293.
- The dubious precision and utility of heritability estimates.Steven J. Heine &Ilan Dar-Nimrod -2022 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e164.Uchiyama et al. question heritability estimates in a convincing manner. We offer additional arguments to further bolster their claims, highlighting methodological issues in heritability coefficients' derivation, their misuse in various contexts, and their potential contributions to exacerbating common erroneous intuitions that have been shown to lead to deleterious social phenomena. We conclude that science should move away from using them.
- Temporality of hermeneutics in dōgen's "shōbōgenzō".Steven Heine -1983 -Philosophy East and West 33 (2):139-147.
- The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism ed. by Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr.Steven Heine -2015 -Philosophy East and West 65 (2):617-620.
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