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 Associate Professor
Reiko Ohnuma is a specialist in the Buddhist traditions of South Asia, with
a particular interest in Indian Buddhist narrative literature, hagiography, and
the role and imagery of women. She was trained in South Asian Studies at the
University of California at Berkeley (B.A. 1986) and in Buddhist Studies at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1997). Her courses at
Dartmouth focus on both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of South Asia. Her
various articles have been published in History of Religions, Journal of Indian
Philosophy, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and Journal of the
International Association of Buddhist Studies. She has just completed her first
book, a study of the theme of bodily self-sacrifice in Sanskrit, Pali, and
Tibetan Buddhist texts dating from the 3rd c. B.C.E. to the 11th c. C.E.,
entitled _Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist
Literature_, and has now embarked on a new project dealing with the theme of
mothers and motherhood in Indian Buddhist literature.
Courses and Programs
2008 Spring
- 81 (10A) Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminars: The Creation of
“Buddhism.”
2008 Fall
- 1 (11) Patterns of Religious Experience (Ohnuma and Hardy)
2009 Winter
2009 Spring
Selected Publications
- Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood: Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist
Literature, (Columbia University Press, 2007).
- "Gift," in Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, ed. Donald S. Lopez,
Jr. (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
- "Woman, Bodhisattva, and Buddha," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion,
17:1 (2001) 63-83.
- "The Story of Rupavati: A Female Past Birth of the Buddha," Journal of the
International Association of Buddhist Studies, 23:1 (2000) 103-45.
- "Internal and External Opposition to the Bodhisattva's Gift of His Body,"
Journal of Indian Philosophy, 28:1 (2000) 43-75.
- "The Gift of the Body and the Gift of Dharma," History of Religions, 37:4
(1998) 323-59.
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