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Matthew Hayes

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Jun 11, 2021

I leave LA in eight days to begin a new chapter in the library world. I wanted to share a few thoughts on finishing my PhD in Buddhist Studies and why I consider this new job an extension of—rather than a departure from—my own work on Japanese Buddhism: 🧵 1/20

Broadly, one of the primary concerns in my research has been access to religious knowledge. In my study of a medieval kōshiki delivered during the Edo period, I’ve attempted to show how the complementarity of liturgical forms (kōshiki, wasan, raimon) widened the scope 2/20

of comprehension across monastic and lay audiences that occupied the same ritual spaces. While my dissertation is preliminary to a larger project, it is clear that the divides between lay and monastic modes of ritual participation are more enjoined than is often recognized. 3/20

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Matthew Hayes

@_matthewhayes_

Jul 30, 2020

Just arrived! Missing vol. 1 but I’m very grateful to have this.

In sets, especially, dictionaries tend to travel down scholarly lineages much more than individual books, and I’d like to acknowledge the life and work of the donor, below:

E. Dale Saunders (1919–1995) was an American scholar of Romance languages and literature, Japanese Buddhism, classical Japanese literature, and East Asian civilization.

Saunders obtained an A.B. degree from Western Reserve University in 1941 and an M.A. in Romance Philology

from Harvard in 1942. He continued his studies in Japanese after joining the U.S. Naval Reserve, later earning an M.A. from Harvard in 1948 and an Doctorat de l'Université de Paris in 1953.
Saunders was a teaching fellow in Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard in 1942 and

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Matthew Hayes

@_matthewhayes_

Jul 24, 2020

I have a meager following so I’d appreciate a signal boost if you can help.

Any interest in a network (model TBD) for scholars working specifically between and across East Asian Buddhist and literary/vernacular cultures? (More below)

Buddhist Studies and EA literary folks are often in close research orbit of one another, especially in conference work and special issues of journals. I know of a few individuals who’d be interested in a more formal forum for exchanging ideas and seeking advice across these areas

but I thought I’d see what people think here. I know there are groups, listservs, and consortia for everything nowadays, but I don’t see much meaningfully organized in this area. Of course, if scholars can easily meet these types of needs elsewhere, and in a single place, then

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Matthew Hayes

@_matthewhayes_

Jan 26, 2020

So I (finally) watched The Lighthouse last night and I’m still reeling. Below is probably one of the most stirring monologues delivered in recent memory for me (Willem Dafoe as Thomas Wake):

“Damn ye! Let Neptune strike ye dead, Winslow! Hark! Hark, Triton. Hark! Bellow, bid our father, the sea king, rise from the depths, full foul in his fury, black waves teeming with salt-foam, to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs

till ye turn blue and bloated with bilge, and brine, and can scream no more. Only when, he, crowned in cockle shells, with slithering tentacled tail, and steaming beard, takes up his fell, be-finnèd arm, his coral-tined trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest,

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