Special Issue:
Honoring James H. Sanford
Guest Editor: Charles D. Orzech
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Guest Editor’s Preface:
Festschrift Honoring James Sanford
Charles D. Orzech
University of North Carolina, Greensboro
In a hidden lair, in these clouded woods
I lay my head beside a moonlit stream.
Pine boughs brush the great, flat stone
sweet springs reach up, gentle, chill.I sit, motionless, before such beauty,
lost in the misted darkness of empty hills.
I am content in this desolate spot
pine shadow, stretching before a setting sun.云林最幽栖，傍涧枕月谿。松拂盘陀石，甘泉涌凄凄。
静坐偏佳丽，虚岩曚雾迷。怡然居憩地，日斜樹影低。—Attributed to Shide
Translation by James H. Sanford
The choice of the above poem, attributed to the famous Tang eccentric and Chan poet Shide (拾 得) and translated for this volume, seems to me an altogether appropriate opening for a celebration of Jim Sanford’s work on his retirement from teaching. Though his house is in the woods in Orange County, North Carolina, and one might find some semblance in the pines to the “hidden lair” mentioned above, visitors will find Jim and his wife Pat surrounded by a variety of adopted animals, from peacocks and emus to koi, all the result of a life of compassionate action in animal welfare projects.
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Table of Contents
- Guest Editor’s Preface: Festschrift Honoring James Sanford by Charles D. ORZECH [ download ]
- Tantroid Phenomena in Early Indic Literature: An Essay in Honor of Jim Sanford by Bruce M. SULLIVAN [ download ]
- Skull Imagery and Skull Magic in the Yoginī Tantras by David B. GRAY [ download ]
- The Guru’s Tongue: Metaphor, Imagery, and Vernacular Language in Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Traditions by Glen Alexander HAYES [ download ]
- Sacred Space in the Temples of West Bengal: Folk, Bhakti, and Tantric Origins by June MCDANIEL [ download ]
- The Spell of the Great, Golden Peacock Queen: The Origin, Practices, and Lore of an Early Esoteric Buddhist Tradition in China by Henrik H. SØRENSEN [ download ]
- The Theoretical Foundations of Pure Land Buddhist Practice according to Tanluan by Roger CORLESS [ download ]
- Looking for Bhairava: Exploring the Circulation of Esoteric Texts Produced by the Song Institute for Canonical Translation by Charles D. ORZECH [ download ]
- Just Open Your Mouth and Say “A”: A-Syllable Practice for the Time of Death in Early Medieval Japan by Jacqueline I. STONE [ download ]
- The Shingon Subordinating Fire Offering for Amitābha, “Amida Kei Ai Goma” by Richard K. PAYNE [ download ]
- Bhairavī Cakra: Goddess Mandalas/Rituals in Contemporary Tantra’s Nondualism by Helen CROVETTO [ download ]
- The Dao of the West: The Orientalist Critique and Western Interpretations of Daoism by Julia M. HARDY [ download ]
- BDK English Tripiṭaka Series: A Progress Report [ download ]