Hoyu ISHIDA 石田法雄
EducationBAMAMTS

Ryukoku University, English Literature (1972)
California State University, Sacramento, Master of Art in English (1976)
Harvard Divinity School, Master of Theological Studies in Comparative
Religions/World Religions (1980)
AM
Stanford University, Master of Art in Religious Studies in the Ph.D. program(1983)

Career & Award
Resident minister of the Buddhist Churches of America in Sacramento, California USA(1973-1977)
Who’s Who in Religion, 2nd edition, Marquis Who’s Who (1977)
Editorial staff, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Volumes I-IX, Kodansha International(1979)
Library assistant at the Harvard Yenching Library in Cambridge, MA, USA (1979-1980)
Research assistant of religious studies at Stanford University (1982)
Eastern Asian Library staff of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University (1983-1984)
Parttime Instructor, Ryukoku University, Kyoto (1984-2018)
Instructor - Associate Professor - Professor, University of Shiga Prefecture (1987-2015)
Visiting Professor, Open University of Japan at Shiga (2008-2021)
Parttime Instructor, Shiga Prefectural Vocational School of Nursing (2015- )President, Kansai Stanford Club (2017-2021)
Professor Emeritus, University of Shiga Prefecture (2015)

Publications
Hoyu Ishida, Myōkōnin O-Karu and Her Poems of Shinjin (Kyoto: InternationalAssociation of Buddhist Culture, 1991). Shûkyō o kangaeru--John Lennon no sekai (Tokyo: Kindai bungeisha, 1996). 1989. Dôgen's Change of Attitude toward the Laity's Attainment ofEnlightenment. Asian Culture, Asian-Pacific Cultural Center, Taipei, Vol. XVII, No. 3,Autumn, pp. 71-86.
. 1990. Pure/Religious Experiences in the Chuang-tzu and Buddhism: In
Search of the Pure Land. The Pure Land, Journal of Pure Land Buddhism (New Series),
Kyoto, No. 7, December, pp. 26-41.
. 1996. The Problem of Practice in Shen-Hui’s Teaching of Sudden
Enlightenment.
Academic Reports of the University Center for Intercultural

Education, the University of Shiga Prefecture (1), 51-64.
. 1997. Salvation for Oneself and Others: “The Wish To Save All Beings" inThe Present. The Pure Land, The Journal of The International Association of Shin
Buddhist Studies, (New Series), No. 13-14, December, pp. 225-240.
. 1998. Otto’s Theory of Religious Experience as Encounter with theNuminous and Its Application to Buddhism. Japanese Religions, Vol. 15(3), 19-33.
. 1998. Nietzsche and Samsara: Suffering and Joy in the Eternal Recurrence.
The Pure Land, Journal of Pure Land Buddhism, New Series No. 15, pp. 122-145.
. 1999. The Lineage of Zen: The Historian and the Believer. AcademicReports of the University Center for Intercultural Education, the University of ShigaPrefecture (4), 65-78.
. 2001. Shinjin and Satori in the Here and Now—Flower Yet Fall As People
Lament. Academic Reports of the University Center for Intercultural Education, theUniversity of Shiga Prefecture (6), 43-68.
. 2002. A Bodhisattva Ideal in the Here and Now. Academic Reports of theUniversity Center for Intercultural Education, the University of Shiga Prefecture (7),33-54.
. 2003. Ontological Implications of Pure Land in the Contemporary World.
Academic Reports of the University Center for Intercultural Education, the Universityof Shiga Prefecture (8), 15-28.
. 2004. Particular and Universal Norms of Religious Values in Tannishô. ThePure Land, The Journal of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies, NewSeries No.21, December.
. 2005. The Unity of Polarity in Shinran’s Religious Experience—ThatWhich Is Empty and False & That Which Is Unsurpassed—. Academic Reports of theUniversity Center for Intercultural Education, the University of Shiga Prefecture (10),41-52.
. 2007. The Seventh Step in This World of Duhkha: To Be in the World but
Not of the World. Asian Humanities (Fall Issue), 151-162.
. 2009. “Zazen-shin,” Admonition Concerning Sitting-Meditation. AcademicReports of the University Center for Intercultural Education, the University of Shiga
Prefecture (14), 1-20.
. 2010. “Genjôkôan”: Some Literary and Interpretative problems of Its
Translation. Academic Reports of the University Center for Intercultural Education,
the University of Shiga Prefecture (15), 1-18.