Gene Reeves is a Buddhist scholar and teacher, process philosopher,
and theologian who has lived in Tokyo for over 23 years studying,
teaching, and practicing the Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra. He is a
founder of the International Buddhist Congregation with
headquarters in Tokyo, a part of the much larger Rissho Kosei-kai
lay Buddhist organization. He is the translator from Chinese into
English of The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a
Buddhist Classic. His most recently published book is The Stories
of the Lotus Sutra. A Buddhist Kaleidoscope: Essays on the Lotus
Sutra, which he edited, was published in 2002. He retired in 2012
as distinguished professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing
and continues to do field research on contemporary Chinese Buddhism
in China and serve as an International Advisor at Rissho Kosei-kai
in Japan. He has taught at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, the
University of Peking in China, and at the University of Chicago and
Meadville Lombard Theological School, Wilberforce University, and
Tufts University in the United States. Born and raised in a small
factory town in New Hampshire, Reeves graduated from the University
of New Hampshire with a degree in psychology, from Boston
University with a degree in theology, and from Emory University
with a PhD in philosophy. In addition to his passion for Buddhism,
Reeves has been active for over 50 years in civil rights causes,
working for a time with Martin Luther King, Jr. and for Chicago
Mayor Harold Washington. Reeves is married to Yayoi Reeves and has
homes in Tokyo and Chicago. He has two adult daughters who live and
work in the United States.
Yoshiro Tamura (1921-1989) was a well-regarded scholar of Japanese
Buddhism, known particularly for his study of the Lotus Sutra and
the traditions that developed around it and the person of Nichiren
in Japan.
Michio Shinozaki is a long-time member of Rissho-Kosei Kai, a
popular Japanese lay Buddhist organization, and president of the
Rissho Kosei-kai Gakurin Seminary in Tokyo. Shinozaki has authored
numerous articles on Japanese Buddhist practice for English
speaking members of the organization.
Learned yet accessible, this Introduction to the Lotus Sutra provides an elegant historical, textual, and philosophical overview of key aspects of the background, translation, and development of lived communities centered around what is arguably the most widely disseminated scripture of Mahayana Buddhism.--Mark Unno, editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy
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