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Richard Jaffe
- Associate Professor
- Religion
- 115 Gray Building
- Campus Box 90964
- Phone: (919) 660-3502
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Overview
My research centers on the development of Japanese Buddhism from the sixteenth century to the present. Current projects include a study of travel and encounters between Japanese and other Buddhists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and overseeing, as general editor, the publication of five volumes of the writings of D. T. Suzuki. -
Specialties
- Buddhism
- East Asian Religions
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Research Summary
Japanese Buddhism, Buddhism and Modernity, and Classical Texts -
Education
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- PhD,
- Yale University,
- 1995
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Awards, Honors and Distinctions
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- National Humanities Center Fellowship,
- National Humanities Center,
- February 2004
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- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
- NEH,
- December 2003
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Recent Publications
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- "Pure Land Buddhism in Modern Japanese Culture by Elisabetta Porcu."
- Journal of Japanese Studies
- 36
- .1
- (Winter, 2010)
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- 198-202.
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- "Religion and Japanese Empire."
- Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
- 37
- .1
- (2010)
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Publication Description
I served as volume editor and wrote the introduction to this special issue of the journal.
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- "Introduction: Zen and Japanese Culture."
- Zen and Japanese Culture.
- Bollingen Series,
- Princeton University Press,
- 2010.
- vii-xxviii.
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- "Buddhist Material Culture, 'Indianism,' and the Construction of Pan-Asianism in Prewar Japan."
- Tohoku University Kenkyu Kiyo
- 4
- (December, 2009)
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- 157-189.
Publication Description
A Japanese translation of my 2006 article in Material Religion.
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- "Buddhist Material Culture, 'Indianism,' and the Construction of Pan-Asianism in Prewar Japan."
- Tōhoku shūkyōgaku
- 4
- (December, 2009)
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- 157-189.
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PhD Students
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Rebecca Mendelson
- August 25, 2012 - present
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Michael Y. Quick
- August 25, 2011 - present
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Uri Kaplan
- 2010 - present
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Jeffrey Schroeder
- August 25, 2009 - present
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Matthew Mitchell
- August 25, 2008 - present
- Status: PostPrelim
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