Recent Graduates in Buddhist Studies
(Doctoral degree in Religious Studies unless otherwise noted)

Wendi Adamek (1997)
Dissertation: "Issues in Chinese Buddhist Transmission as Seen Through the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Ages)"
Assistant Professor, Barnard College
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Michael Como (2000)
Dissertation: "Silla Immigrants and the Early Shôtoku Cult: Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Early Yamato"
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
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Theodore (Tad) Cook (2007)
Dissertation topic: The Daojiao yishu: A Tang-dynasty Daoist Handbook

Research Fellow, SCBS
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Shari Epstein (2006)
Dissertation: "Boundaries of the Dao: Hanshan Deqing's (1546-1623) Buddhist Commentary on the Zhuangzi"
Assistant professor, Dharma Realm Buddhist University
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Egil (Gil) Fronsdal (1998)
Dissertation: "The Dawn of the Bodhisattva Path: Studies in a Religious Ideal of Ancient Indian Buddhists"
Director, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, Redwood City
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David Gardiner (1994)
Dissertation: "Kûkai and the Beginnings of Shingon Buddhism in Japan"
Associate Professor, Colorado College
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Lisa Grumbach (2005)
Dissertation: "Sacrifice and Salvation in Medieval Japan: Hunting and Meat in Religious Practice at Suwa Jinja"
Tamai Professor of Buddhist Studies, Insitute of Buddhist Studies
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Henry (Hank) Glassman(2001)
Dissertation: "The Religious Construction of Motherhood in Medieval Japan"
Assistant Professor, Haverford College
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Lawrence Gross(1998)
Dissertation: "Manzan Dôhaku and the Transmission of the Teaching"
Visiting scholar, U.C. Santa Barbara
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Wilburn (Wil) Hansen(2006)
Dissertation: "Strange Tidings from the Realm of Immortals: Hirata Atsutane's
Ethnography of the Other World"
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
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Jason (J.J.) Josephson(2006)
Dissertation: "Taming Demons : The Anti-Superstition Campaign and the Invention of
Religion in Japan (1853-1920)"
Assistant Professor, Williams College
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John Kieschnick (Asian Languages, 1995)
Dissertation: "The Idea of the Monk in Medieval China: Asceticism, Thaumaturgy, and Scholarship in the Biographies of Eminent Monks"
Lecturer, University of Bristol

Irene Lin (2001)
Dissertation: "Traversing Boundaries: The Demonic Child in the Medieval Japanese Religious Imaginaire"
Associate Director, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies
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David (Max) Moerman (2000)
Dissertation: "Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan"
Associate Professor, Barnard College
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Elizabeth Morrison (2004)
Dissertation: "Ancestors, Authority, and History: Chan lineage in the Writings of Qisong (1007-1072)"
Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
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Okada Masahiko (1997)
Dissertation: "Vision and Reality: Buddhist Cosmographic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Japan"
Instructor, Tenri Daigaku

David Quinter (2006)
Dissertation: "The Shingon Ritsu School and the Mañjusrî Cult in the Kamakura
Period: From Eison to Monkan"
Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington University
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James Robson (2002)
Dissertation: "Imagining Nanyue: A Religious History of The Southern Marchmount Through the Tang Dynasty [618-907]"
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Julius Tsai (2003)
Dissertation: "In the steps of Emperors and Immortals: Ritual Tours to the Mountains in Early Daoism"
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
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Mark Unno (1994)
Dissertation: "As Appropriate: Myôe Kôben and the Problem of the Vinaya in Early Kamakura Buddhism"
Associate Professor, University of Oregon
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B. Allan Wallace (1995)
Dissertation: "The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism"
Director, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies