Author
The author, Brian Victoria, trained at the Sôtô Zen monastery of Eiheiji and is a fully ordained priest in the Sōtō sect. He received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the Department of Religion at Temple University and his M.A. from Sôtô-affiliated Komazawa University in Tokyo, where he also majored in Buddhist Studies.
Victoria has taught Japanese language and culture at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Creighton University, and Bucknell University in the United States and lectured in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Auckland. He was a Senior Lecturer in the Centre in Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He has also been Yehan Numata Distinguished Visiting Professor, Buddhist Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa in Honolulu. At present, he serves as Director of the Buddhist Studies in Japan Program affiliated with Antioch Education Abroad and, concurrently, professor of Japanese Studies at Antioch University, headquartered in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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