Mark W. Dennis
Dennis, M.
| PersonType | Category:Professors Category:Translators |
|---|---|
| FirstName / namefirst | Mark |
| LastName / namelast | Dennis |
| namemiddle | W. |
| MainNamePhon | Mark W. Dennis |
| SortName | Dennis, Mark |
| bio | Mark Dennis is Associate Professor of Religion at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth Texas. He earned his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006, focusing on early Japanese Buddhism. Before joining the Religion Department at TCU in 2007, he taught for four years at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. He has lived in Japan and India for eight years where he studied Buddhism and Hinduism, and has traveled widely in Asia. His research focuses on the reception history of Japanese Buddhist texts, looking particularly at notions of authorship, textuality, and canon. He has published a translation of the Shomangyo-gisho, a Japanese Buddhist text written in classical Chinese and attributed to Japan’s Prince Shotoku (574–622 CE). He has also written articles looking at the reception of this text in various periods of Japanese history. One of these articles examines the different ways in which four medieval Japanese monks understood and used the text, while another considers modern representations of it in Japanese manga, or comic books. He has also coedited a volume of essays on Shusaku Endo's novel Silence that was published in 2014 by Bloomsbury-Continuum. (Source Accessed Jun 6, 2019) |
| affiliation | Texas Christian University, Department of Religion |
| phduniversity | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| education | Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006) |
| IsInGyatsa | No |
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