Kōichi SHINOHARA
Yale University
Kōichi Shinohara is a retired Senior Lecturer of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale University. His career has so far spanned half a century, during which time he has studied many aspects of medieval Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts and images. Although he primarily taught at McMaster and Yale universities, Dr. Shinohara’s research has inspired or deeply touched nearly everyone working in the broader field of East Asian Buddhist Studies. In addition to the seven edited volumes published with Dr. Phyllis Granoff (spanning from 1988–2012), including Images in Asian Religions: Texts and Contexts (UBC Press, 2004), he published an innovative study of esoteric Buddhism in medieval China and Japan: Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals (Columbia University Press, 2014), and numerous articles and book chapters on topics ranging from so-called apocryphal Buddhist literature to textual and ritual studies, investigations of sacred biography or hagiography, particularly from the genre of Biographies of Eminent Monks (gaoseng zhuan 高僧传) in China, and much more. Prof. Shinohara’s most recent academic venture, the daunting translation in multiple volumes of a seventh-century Buddhist encyclopedia, the A Forest of Pearls from the Dharma Garden (Fayuan zhulin 法苑珠林), for the Bukkyō Dendōkyōkai (BDK) English Tripiṭaka Series (volumes 1-3; 2019, 2019, 2020).
His publications with WSP are:
Narratives of Buddhist Practice: Studies on Chinese-Language Canonical Compilations and Translations (Selected Essays by Koichi Shinohara). Hualin Series on Buddhist Studies III. Edited by Jinhua Chen, with assistance of Mingli Sun and Weiyu Lin, 2021.
Shinohara, Koichi (trans. Liu Xuejun 刘学军). Zhouyu Shengxiang he Mantuluo: Mijiao yishi yanbian yanjiu 咒语、圣像和曼荼罗——密教仪式衍变研究 [Spells, Images, and Maṇḍalas: Tracing the Evolution of Esoteric Buddhist Rituals]. Hualin Foxue Yicong 华林佛学译丛 [Hualin Translation Series on Buddhist Studies] I, 2021.
Shinohara, Kōichi (trans. Liwei 李巍, Liu Xuejun 刘学军, Chen Zhiyuan 陈志远, Deng Yuqu 邓育渠, Wang Kang 汪康, Yang Feng 杨凤, and Jin Rusha 金如沙; collated by Ji Yun 纪赟). Fojiao xiuxing de xushu: Hanchuan Fodian de bianji yu fanyi yanjiu 佛教修行的叙述：汉传佛典的编辑与翻译研究 [Narratives of Buddhist Practice: Studies on Chinese-Language Canonical Compilations and Translations](Selected Essays by Koichi Shinohara). ]. Hualin Foxue Yicong 华林佛学译丛 [Hualin Translation Series on Buddhist Studies] II, 2021.
