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DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
JAPAN CENTER
Dr. phil. Steffen Döll
Assistant Professor
Munich University Japan Center
steffen.doell@lmu.de
Publications (as of June 2013)
Monographs
Im Osten des Meeres. Chinesische Emigrantenmönche und die frühen Institutionen des japanischen
Zen-Buddhismus (East of the Ocean. Chinese Emigrant Monks and the Early Institutions of
Japanese Zen Buddhism). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010 (Münchener Ostasiatische Studien
84).
URL: http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/58195.html (Table of Contents, Introduction)
Reviewed by Dieter Schwaller, History of Religions 52/2, 2012, pp. 187-189.
Wozu also Suchen? Zur Einführung in das Denken von Ueda Shizuteru (Why Bother Searching? An
Introduction to the Thought of Ueda Shizuteru). With a foreword by Klaus Vollmer. Munich:
Iudicium, 2005.
URL: http://paperc.de/17775-wozu-also-suchen-9783891297940 (registration required)
Reviewed by James W. Heisig, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33/1, 2006, pp. 208-211.
URL: http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/jjrs/pdf/743.pdf
Translations
Imamichi Tomonobu 今 道 友 信 . Eco-Ethica. Eine Einführung in die Umweltethik (Eco-Ethica. An
Introduction to Environmental Ethics). Munich: Iudicium, 2007
Original: エコエティカ― 生 圏 倫 理 学 入 門 . Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1990.
Kubota Nobuhiro 久 保 田 展 弘 . Das Klima des japanischen Polytheismus (The climate of Japanese
Polytheism). Munich: Iudicium, 2006
Original: 日 本 多 神 教 の 風 土 . Tokyo: PHP shinsho, 1997.
Articles
Born Into a World of Turmoil: The Biography and Thought of Chūgan Engetsu. Gereon Kopf (ed.),
Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Publishing,
(accepted for publication).
Chan. Nina P. Azari (ed.), Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer
Publishing, 2013.
URL: http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/357432.html
Manifestations of the Mountain: Preliminary Remarks to the Utopian Study of Potalaka in Premodern
East Asia. Review of Asian and Pacific Studies 37 (2012), 2013, pp. 83-102.

Eine Überlieferung jenseits der Dogmatik? Der Zen-Buddhismus im Spiegel der Diskussion um
Zugehörigkeit und Differenz (A Tradition Beyond Dogmatics? Zen Buddhism and the
Discussion about Affiliation and Difference). Katja Triplett (Hg.), Religiöse Tradierung in
Japan. Halle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2012 (Schriften des Zentrums für
Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien Band1), pp 55-82.
URL: http://www.japan.uni-muenchen.de/download/doell/doell_2012_zen_tradierung.pdf
Some Thoughts on ‘Brush Talks.’ CAPS Newsletter (The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei
University), No. 113, 2012, pp. 10-11.
URL: http://www.seikei.ac.jp/university/caps/japanese/04publication/newsletter_pdf/no113.pdf
Self and World. Ueda Shizuteru in Dialogue with René Descartes, Martin Heidegger and Maurice
Merleau-Ponty. Bret Davis et. al. (ed.), Japanese and Continental Philosophy. Conversations
with the Kyoto School. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011 (Studies in Continental
Thought), pp. 120-137.
No Heart, No Illusions. Some Remarks on Mushin. James W. Heisig, Rein Raud (ed.), Classical
Japanese Philsophy. Nagoya: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 2010 (Frontiers of
Japanses Philosophy 7), pp. 169-199.
URL: http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/publications/EJPhilosophy/PDF/EJP7%20Doell.pdf
真 の 自 己 の 否 定 性 ―― 上 田 閑 照 の「 自 己 ならざる 自 己 」の 現 象 学 (The Negativity of the True
Self. Ueda Shizuteru’s Phenomenology of the ‘Self as Not-Self’). 紀 要 『 日 本 哲 学 史 研 究 』.
Bulletin ‘Studies in Japanese Philosophy,’ No. 3, 2006, pp. 84-105.
Papers
Utopische Landschaften. Beispiele für die Repräsentation von Natur in buddhistischen Schriften
(Utopian landscapes. Examples for the representation of nature in Buddhist writings).
Workshop “Mensch und Natur im vormodernen Japan. Ordnungsentwürfe und
Repräsentationsformen,” Frankfurt University. June 15, 2013.
Buddhistische Legenden im mittelalterlichen Japan. Auswahl und Überblick (Buddhist legends in
medieval Japan. Selection and overview). Japanisch Intensivkurs, LMU. March 12, 2013.
Chinese emigrant monks in medieval Japan. Thoughts on an alternative historiography of Zen
Buddhism. Tradition and Modernity: Thinking Asia across Frontiers International
Symposium, Saitama University. January 21, 2013.
Der Wert des Schreibens. Zum Selbstverständnis japanischer Literaten im vormodernen und
modernen Kontext (The Value of Writing. On the Self-Representation of Japanese Literati in
Pre-Modern and Modern Japan). Tübingen University. November 23, 2012.
Zwischen Philologie, Intertextualitätstheorie und Narratologie. Überlegungen anhand des Kokon
chomonjū (Between philology, intertextuality, and narratology. Reflections with a view to the
Kokon chomonjū). 15. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Zurich University. August 28,
2012.
Aneignung und Übersetzung. Überlegungen zur Begriffsgeschichte von hon’yaku (Appropriation and
translation. Thoughts on the conceptual history of hon‘yaku). Workshop “Vom Übersetzen,”
Hamburg University. June 9, 2012.
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Paradigms of poetics. Revisiting the relation between Chinese and Japanese poetry. “Rupturing
Epistemes, Shifting Paradigms Workshop,” Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities,
Young Academy. April 11, 2012.
Überlegungen zur Rolle der Philologie in der Japanologie (Thoughts on the Role of Philology in
Japanese Studies). Japan Center, LMU. February 2, 2012.
「 筆 を 以 って 舌 を 傳 ふ、 眼 を 將 って 辭 を 聽 す」 中 世 東 亜 における 文 化 交 流 を 巡 って
(‘Communicating My Tongue with the Brush, Hearing My Words with Your Eyes:’ On
Cultural Exchange in Medieval East Asia). Seikei University, Tokyo. October 4, 2011
五 山 文 学 における『 十 牛 図 』 その 歴 史 的 背 景 を 巡 って (The Ox-Herding Pictures in Five
Mountains Literature: On Their Historical Background). Kokoro-ushi-kai Buddhist Studies
Group, Kyoto. September 25, 2011.
Fern der Welt. Einsiedelei und Klosterleben in Japan (Far from the World. Anchoritism and Monastic
Life in Japan). Japanisch Intensivkurs, LMU. August 30, 2011.
Tradition vs. Dogmatik. Problematiken in der Darstellung des Zen-Buddhismus (Tradition vs.
Dogmatics. Problems in the Representation of Zen Buddhism). Hamburg University. July 9,
2011.
Fractures and Continuities in the Formation of Japanese Zen Buddhism. XVIth Congress of the
International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS), Dharma Drum Buddhist College,
Taiwan. June 22, 2011.
Tradition and Performativity. Tracks and Traces of the Ox-Herding Pictures in the Zen Buddhist
Tradition. Bring Your Images working group, Leiden. October 06, 2010.
No Heart, No Illusions. A Conceptual History of mushin. Classical Japanese Philosophy conference,
Tallinn. May 22, 2010.
Literaten zwischen China und Japan. Eine Skizze (Literati between China and Japan. An Outline).
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Young Academy. May 10, 2010.
Östlich des blauschwarzen Meeres. Aspekte der Translation vom Chan zum Zen (East of the Dark
Blue Ocean. Aspects of the Translation of Chan to Zen). 14. Deutschsprachiger
Japanologentag, University Halle-Wittenberg. October 1, 2009
Ein Überblick über die japanische Literaturgeschichte (An Overview of the History of Japanese
Philosophy). Japanisch Intensivkurs, LMU. September 26, 2008.
本 朝 一 国 師 一 山 一 寧 と 日 本 五 山 前 期 (The Single Master of our Dynasty. Yishan Yining and the
Early Years of Five Mountains Literature). Kufūkai Buddhist Studies Group, Kyoto. January
27, 2008.
And Emptiness Falls Down to Earth. Yi-Shan Yi-Ning and the Early Years of Japanese Five
Mountains Zen Literature. 11th Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Meiji Gakuin
University Tokyo. June 23, 2007.
虚 空 落 地 一 山 一 寧 と 五 山 文 学 前 期 を 巡 って (And Emptiness Falls Down to Earth. Concerning
Yishan Yining and the Early Years of Five Mountains Literature). Graduate Colloquium,
Institute for the History of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University. June 8, 2007.
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真 の 自 己 の 否 定 性 上 田 閑 照 の「 自 己 ならざる 自 己 」の 現 象 学 (The Negativity of the True Self.
Ueda Shizuteru’s Phenomenology of the ‘Self as Not-Self’). Graduate Colloquium, Institute for
the History of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University. June 30, 2006.
A Phenomenology of Self. Ueda Shizuteru’s Interpretation of the Ten Ox-Herding Pictures. 11th
International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS), Vienna
University. September 2, 2005.
Book reviews
Emptiness and Temporality. Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics by Esperanza Ramirez-
Christensen. Pacific World Journal Third Series 13 (Fall 2011), 2012, pp. 263-271.
URL: http://www.shin-ibs.edu/documents/pwj3-13/10Reviews.pdf
The Aesthetics and Limits of Metacriticism. Dorsey on Kobayashi Hideo. (Review of: James Dorsey,
Critical Aesthetics. Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan. Cambridge,
MA/London: Harvard University Asia Center 2009). JLTonline, 2010.
URL: http://www.jltonline.de/index.php/reviews/article/view/264/815
Interviews
日 独 交 流 150 周 年 について (On 150 Years of Japanese-German Exchange).
エクセレントドイツ・イデー. Excellent GERMANY IDEE, No. 4, 2011, p. 17.
Von Solarzellen und Literatengelehrten (On Solar Cells and Literati Scholars). Together with Carsten
Deibel. Akademie Aktuell, No. 33, 2010, pp. 5-6.
URL: http://www.badw.de/aktuell/akademie_aktuell/2010/heft2/02_Latzin_Fragebogen.pdf
Conference panels, workshops, lectures
Workshop: Rupturing Epistemes, Shifting Paradigms: Turning Points in Japanese Intellectual,
Aesthetic and Political History. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Young
Academy. April 11, 2012.
Guest lecture by Abbot Kobayashi Gentoku (Shōkoku monastery, Kyoto): “A Zen master reads the
Holy Scriptures. An Essay in the synthesis of the Bible and the Records of Linji.” April 10,
2012.
Conference panel: Narrative Strategies in Buddhist Historical Writings. Together with Marc
Nürnberger. XVIth Congress of the IABS, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan. June 21-
22, 2011.
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