Cook, F.

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Francis H. Cook
English Phonetics Francis H. Cook
Sort Name Cook, Francis
Cook Francis H. Portrait by daughter Zoe Cook.jpg
Dates
Birth:   1930/03/25
Death:   2006/03/24
Place of birth:   Pheonix, New York


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Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
University of California, Riverside

PhD University

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Biographical Information

Francis Dojun Cook was born and raised in a very small town in upstate New York in 1930. He was lucky to be an ordinary kid with ordinary parents. By means of true grit and luck, he managed to acquire several academic degrees and learn something about Buddhism. More luck in the form of a Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to study in Kyoto, Japan, for a year and a half, where he would have learned more had he not spent so much time admiring temple gardens. He now teaches Buddhism at the University of California, Riverside, and is director of translations at the Institute for Transcultural Studies in Los Angeles. He remains ordinary, but to his credit it can be said that he raised four good kids, has a great love for animals, and cooks pretty well. A sign that at last he is becoming more intelligent is that he became a student of Maezumi Roshi several years ago, the best thing he ever did. He is also the author of Hua-yen Buddhism: The Jewel Net of Indra, and of various articles on Buddhism in scholarly journals. (Source Accessed Mar 18, 2021)

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Also known as Francis Dojun Cook


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