Alumni
Brenda Falk
Dissertation: “The Road to Osorezan: A Case Study of a Pilgrimage Site in Contemporary Japan”
Graduation Year: 2016
Rafal Felbur
Dissertation: Anxiety of Emptiness: Self and Scripture in Early Medieval Chinese Buddhism, With a Focus on Sengrui
Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism
Graduation Year: 2018
Wendi Adamek
Dissertation: Issues in Chinese Buddhist Transmission as Seen Through the Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Ages)
Graduation Year: 1997
Sarah Fremerman Aptilon
Dissertation: Divine Impersonations: Nyoirin Kannon in Medieval Japan
Graduation Year: 2008
Benjamin (Ben) Brose
Dissertation: Buddhist Empires: Saṃgha-State Relations in Tenth-Century China
Graduation Year: 2009
Megan Bryson
Dissertation: The Transformations of Baijie Shengfei: Gender and Ethnicity in Chinese Religion
Graduation Year: 2010
Heawon Choi
Dissertation: The Wandering Sage: Zhi Dun's (314-366) Life and Thought in Multiple Contexts
Research Interests: Chinese Buddhism
Graduation Year: 2015
Michael Como
Dissertation: Silla Immigrants and the Early Shōtoku Cult: Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Early Yamato
Graduation Year: 2000
Theodore (Tad) Cook
Dissertation: The Daojiao yishu: A Tang-dynasty Daoist Handbook
Graduation Year: 2007
Shari Epstein
Dissertation: Boundaries of the Dao: Hanshan Deqing's (1546-1623) Buddhist Commentary on the Zhuangzi
Graduation Year: 2006
Egil (Gil) Fronsdal
Dissertation: The Dawn of the Bodhisattva Path: Studies in a Religious Ideal of Ancient Indian Buddhists
Graduation Year: 1998
David Gardiner
Dissertation: Kūkai and the Beginnings of Shingon Buddhism in Japan
Graduation Year: 1994
Henry (Hank) Glassman
Dissertation: The Religious Construction of Motherhood in Medieval Japan
Graduation Year: 2001
Lawrence Gross
Dissertation: Manzan Dōhaku and the Transmission of the Teaching
Graduation Year: 1998
Lisa Grumbach
Dissertation: Sacrifice and Salvation in Medieval Japan: Hunting and Meat in Religious Practice at Suwa Jinja
Graduation Year: 2005
Wilburn (Wil) Hansen
Dissertation: Strange Tidings from the Realm of Immortals: Hirata Atsutane's Ethnography of the Other World
Graduation Year: 2006
Chiew Hui Ho
Dissertation: Tales of the Diamond Sutra: Buddhism on the Ground in Medieval China
Graduation Year: 2013
Jason (J.J.) Josephson
Dissertation: Taming Demons: The Anti-Superstition Campaign and the Invention of Religion in Japan (1853-1920)
Graduation Year: 2006
John Kieschnick
Dissertation: The Idea of the Monk in Medieval China: Asceticism, Thaumaturgy, and Scholarship in the Biographies of Eminent Monks
Graduation Year: 1995
George Klonos
Dissertation: Shugendō in the Tokugawa Period: Mount Ōmine as Imaginary Space and Place of Practice
Graduation Year: 2012
Se-Woong Koo
Dissertation: Making Belief: Religion and the State in Korea, 1392-1960
Graduation Year: 2011
Okada Masahiko
Dissertation: Vision and Reality: Buddhist Cosmographic Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Graduation Year: 1997
Adeana McNicholl
Dissertation: "Celestial Seductresses and Hungry Ghosts: Preta Narratives in Early Indian Buddhism"
Graduation Year: 2019
David (Max) Moerman
Dissertation: Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage in Medieval Japan
Graduation Year: 2000
Elizabeth Morrison
Dissertation: Ancestors, Authority, and History: Chan Lineage in the Writings of Qisong (1007-1072)
Graduation Year: 2004
Jason Protass
Dissertation: “Buddhist Monks and Chinese Poems: Song Dynasty Monastic Literary Culture”
Graduation Year: 2016
David Quinter
Dissertation: The Shingon Ritsu School and the Mañjuśrī Cult in the Kamakura Period: From Eison to Monkan
Graduation Year: 2006
James Robson
Dissertation: Imagining Nanyue: A Religious History of The Southern Marchmount Through the Tang Dynasty [618-907]
Graduation Year: 2002
Dominic Steavu
Dissertation: The Three Sovereigns Tradition: Talismans, Elixirs, and Meditation in Early Medieval China
Graduation Year: 2010
Julius Tsai
Dissertation: In the Steps of Emperors and Immortals: Ritual Tours to the Mountains in Early Daoism
Graduation Year: 2003
Mark Unno
Dissertation: As Appropriate: Myōe Kōben and the Problem of the Vinaya in Early Kamakura Buddhism
Graduation Year: 1994
B. Alan Wallace
Dissertation: The Cultivation of Sustained Voluntary Attention in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism
Graduation Year: 1995
Nicholas Witkowski
Dissertation: The Ascetic Lifestyle in the Early Indian Buddhist Monastery: A Study of the Dhutaguna Practices in the Vinaya Tradition
Graduation Year: 2015
Wang Xiang
Dissertation: Reconstructing Ximing Monastery: History, Imagination and Scholarship in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Graduation Year: 2012
Zhaohua Yang
Dissertation: Devouring Impurities: Myth, Ritual and Talisman in Tang China
Graduation Year: 2013
