626 Anderson Hall
Office Hours: T, R 12:30 - 1:15 PM
      or by appointment
snagatom@temple.edu
Tel: 215-204-1749 (Office)
Fax: 215-204-2535 (Dept.)

Profile
Professor Nagatomo has been teaching at Temple University for 24 years and specializes in Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism. He focuses on mind/body issues and approaches them from the standpoint of depth psychology and meditational experience. Professor Nagatomo was forged in Kagoshima-shi, Japan in front of a giant volcano and washed by the crystalline waves of the Pacific Ocean.

BA in Philosophy, Central College, Pella, Iowa, 1973
M.A. in Philosophy, University of Hawai'i, 1978
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Hawai'i, 1985

Curriculum Vitae

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES
Syllabi

• Introduction to Asian Religions
• Asian Behavior and Thought
• Introduction to Japanese Buddhism
• Introduction to Zen Buddhism
• Introduction to Buddhism
• Comparative Mysticism
• Meditation, the Body, and Healing
  
  

 

GRADUATE COURSES
Syllabi

• Foundations in Japanese Buddhism
• Kyoto School
• Jung & the East
• The Body: East & West
• Religious Experience: East and West
• Religion and Contemporary Thought
• Dogen
• Kukai
• Special Topics

  - Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro

  - Topics in Buddhist Thought

  - Watsuji’s Ethics
  - Eastern Meditation Texts
  
  
  

SELECTED PAST TALKS GIVEN

• Logic of Not
• In Praise of Nonperformance
• Yuasa's Theory of the Body
• Zen Meditation (also go to http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/entries/japanese-zen/)
• Healing

HANDOUTS

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