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September 25th 2007 • Printer version Professor Mark Unno to Speak at ENR Fireside Conversation Series September 26
at 4:30 p.m.
The University of Oregon School of Law's Environmental and Natural Resources
Law Program, along with the University of Oregon's Environmental Studies Program,
continues its "Earth on Fire: A Series of Fireside Conversations On Global Warming" 2007-2008 series with
a talk by Professor Mark Unno, who will be speaking on "The Buddha's Fire Sermon
and Global Warming." Professor Unno's interests lie in Medieval Japanese Buddhism, specifically in
the relation between intellectual history and social practices. He also works
in the areas of modern Japanese religious thought and comparative religion. He
is the translator of Hayao Kawai, The Buddhist Priest Myoe-A Life of Dreams (Lapis
Press, 1992) and his recent articles include: "Questions in the Making - A Review
Essay on Zen Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Buddhist and Comparative Ethics,"
Journal of Religious Ethics (Fall 1999); and "Myoe Koben and the Komyo Shingon
dosha kanjinki: The Ritual of Sand and the Mantra of Light," study and translation,
in Re-visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism, edited by Richard Payne (Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 1998). He is currently completing a manuscript on the Mantra
of Light ritual entitled, Refractions of Light: Myoe Koben and the Komyo Shingon.
The event will take place Wednesday, September 26, at 4:30 p.m., at the Many Nations
Longhouse adjacent to the School of Law. It is free and open to all members of the University community.
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