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Richard Jaffe

Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
115 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Global Waves on Ōmura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron (Vimuttimagga) · December 3, 2013 Lecture University of Oslo
Kawaguchi Ekai, Globalization, and the Promotion of Lay Buddhism in Japan · October 5, 2013 Lecture Duke University
Global Waves on Omura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron · September 15, 2012 Lecture Yale University, New Haven, CT
Global Waves on Omura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron · September 13, 2012 Lecture University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Respondent: The Role of the Laity in the Formation of Modern Buddhism · June 23, 2011 Lecture Dharma Drum University, Jinshan, Taiwan
Global Waves on Ōmura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron (Vimuttimagga) · December 3, 2013 Lecture University of Oslo
Kawaguchi Ekai, Globalization, and the Promotion of Lay Buddhism in Japan · October 5, 2013 Lecture Duke University
Global Waves on Omura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron · September 15, 2012 Lecture Yale University, New Haven, CT
Global Waves on Omura Bay: The English Translation of the Gedatsu dōron · September 13, 2012 Lecture University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Respondent: The Role of the Laity in the Formation of Modern Buddhism · June 23, 2011 Lecture Dharma Drum University, Jinshan, Taiwan
Response to Transnationalism and Japanese Buddhist Modernity Panel · September 27, 2009 Lecture University of California-Berkeley, Center for Japanese Studies
Sōtō Zen for Export · August 28, 2009 Lecture San Francisco Zen Center-UC-Berkeley
Kawaguchi Ekai and the Globalization of Lay Buddhism in Japan · October 31, 2008 Lecture University of Chicago

Service to the Profession


Respondent : Panel Respondent AAR Annual Meeting · November 18, 2012 Other Chicago, IL
Journal of Global Buddhism · October 2012 Editorial Activities
Reviewer : Oxford University Press · August 2012 Editorial Activities
Respondent : Panel Respondent Association for Asian Studies · March 15, 2012 Other Toronto, Canada
Panel Respondent: India in the Asian Buddhist Imagination : Panel Respondent at National Conference · November 21, 2011 Other San Francisco, CA AAR Annual Meeting
Respondent : Panel Respondent AAR Annual Meeting · November 18, 2012 Other Chicago, IL
Journal of Global Buddhism · October 2012 Editorial Activities
Reviewer : Oxford University Press · August 2012 Editorial Activities
Respondent : Panel Respondent Association for Asian Studies · March 15, 2012 Other Toronto, Canada
Panel Respondent: India in the Asian Buddhist Imagination : Panel Respondent at National Conference · November 21, 2011 Other San Francisco, CA AAR Annual Meeting
Editorial Board Member : Journal of Japanese Religions · August 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board Member : Journal of Global Buddhism · January 1, 2011 Editorial Activities
Reviewer : Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada · December 14, 2010 Editorial Activities Duke University
Reviewer : Harvard East Asia Monographs · December 14, 2010 Editorial Activities
AAR Buddhism Unit Steering Committee · January 1, 2010 Other
Editorial Board Member : Monumenta Nipponica · 2010 - January 1, 2013 Editorial Activities
Committee Member : AAR Buddhism Group Steering Committee · December 1, 2009 Other
Editorial Board Member : Material Religion · January 17, 2008 - December 31, 2011 Editorial Activities