Core Faculty
Academic Advisory Board
Department Head
East Asian Studies
Education:
Ph.D McMaster University, 1987
Major Field:
Chinese and Japanese Buddhism
Major Publications:
- Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism (Oxford, 2006)
- The Linji lu and the Creation of Chan Orthodoxy: The Development of Chan’s Records of Sayings Literature (Oxford, 2008)
- Yongming Yanshou’s Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu: A Special Transmission within the Scriptures (Oxford, 2011), etc.