Unit 3 Extra Credit

Extra Credit

Students who have kept up with and enjoyed all the readings may wish to earn extra credit to supplement their grades using any or all of the means listed below. However make sure to prioritize required assignments, since these are worth five to ten times more than extra credit supplements.

Additional Readings, Practices & Terms for Unit 3

In selecting a practice & terms for each unit, most people will be drawn to a practice identified in one of the readings guides and addressed in one of the Application Exercises done in class. Interested students may earn **EXTRA CREDIT**, however, by doing additional reading that either (A) provides additional information about one of the above mentioned practices or (B) describes an entirely different practice not yet considered in class. You can also add points to a TRA score by doing a written analysis of one of these optional sources.

B. Additional Practices NOT Considered in Class

creating & viewing Thai Buddhist temple murals
"Excerpts from Merit Making, Making Art" (ASA, 147-62)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
making & focusing on Tibetan Buddhist images
"Image as Presence" (ASA, 140-46) &
"Buddhist Worlds of Southeast Asia & the High Himalayas " (part 3)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
creating & viewing landscape paintings in Korea
"True-View Landscape Painting of the Choson Dynasty" (ASA, 395-405)*
(unseen: nature, reality, mind, Heaven)
(community: sirhak, Yi Ik)
building & using skyscrapers in East & SE Asia
"Skyscraper Competition in Asia" (ASA, 189-97)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
study of and commentary on the Mangala Sutta
"Auspicious Things" (RAP, 237-51)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
Tibetan prayer & study to prepare for death
"A Prayer for Deliverance from Rebirth"
[+ optional: "Prayer Flag for Tara"]
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
recitation & study in a Tibetan monastery
"The Regulations of a Monastery " (RAP, 539-55)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
writing & hearing Tibetan legend
"Guidebook to Lapchi" (RAP, 490-504)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
a Tibetan exorcism ritual
"Turning Back Gossip " (RAP, 572-82)
& Buddhism (p.66)
(unseen: gossip girl)
(community: Padmasambhava, China)

novel writing of an 11th CE Japanese court lady
"'The Oak Tree,' fromThe Tale of Genji"
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
sculpting and viewing Buddha statues in 11th-12th CE Japan
"Jocho's Statue of Amida at the Byodoin" (ASA, 338-48)
& "Temples & Icons of Japan" (part 3)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
creating & viewing Japanese suiboku paintings
"A Theme in Japanese Ink Painting of the 15th Century" (ASA, 325-36)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
tea ceremony in 16th CE Japan
"Tea & Politics in the Momoyama Period" (ASA, 338-48)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
printmaking & viewing prints in 17th-19th century Japan
"...Western Perspective in Edo Popular Culture" (ASA, 408-21)*
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
making independent art in mid-20th century Japan
"...Yomiuri Indépendent Artists...in the 1960s" (ASA, 448-60)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
Zen Buddhist meditation and koan study
"Awakening Stories of Zen Buddhist Women" (RAP, 270-81)
(unseen: please inquire)
(community: please inquire)
popular Zen practice for laypeople
"Zen Buddhist Tracts for the Laity" (CP, 119-25)
(bodhisattva, shunyata, dharma)
(Bodhidharma, Chan, Soto Zen, Mencius, Meiji restoration)
writing & viewing No plays
"The Deserted Crone" & "Princess Hollyhock (MOO)
(uji-kami, Amaterasu, Takamimushibi, purity)
( jinjas, Meiji restoration, Mount Obasute, Saint of Yokawa)

Extra Credit

Additional Readings, Practices & Terms for **Unit 3**

B. Additional Practices NOT Considered in Class

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Additional Readings, Practices & Terms for Unit 3