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A Poem Carved in Stone, a work for piano solo by Washington DC-based Chinese composer Wu Yiming was composed in Spring 2020 and is dedicated to the author of this dissertation. The piece is inspired by the poetry of Han Shan, a recluse who lived during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 …

This dissertation is the first monographic study of the monk-calligrapher Yishan Yining (1247-1317), who was sent to Japan in 1299 as an imperial envoy by Emperor Chengzong (Temur, 1265-1307. r. 1294-1307), and achieved unprecedented success there. Through careful visual analysi…

Japanese Soto Zen Buddhism underwent a period of challenge and change in the eighteenth century that enormously altered the doctrines and practices that had sustained it for hundreds of years. Menzan Zuiho, though one of the most illustrious writers and reformers of this period …

This dissertation is a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis of "place," especially with respect to comparative modes of listening. I orient my work around a 1923 meeting in San Francisco of the Japanese Zen Buddhist priest, Nyogen Senzaki, and the Indian Sufi mystic and…

It seems that the following statements are pairwise consistent (any two are consistent) but form an inconsistent triad (at least one must be false): (1) Regarding their respective inquires into p and q , A and B assess the evidential value of the same (or sufficiently similar) f…