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|bio=Mark Blum is Associate Professor in the Dept. of East Asian Studies, State University of New York, Albany. He is author of ''The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism'', and co-editor of the forthcoming I. He is senior editor for the Japan section of the Brill series, ''Handbook of Oriental Studies'', a commissioned research fellow at Otani University, Bukkyo University, and the Jodoshu Research Institute at Zojoji where he is translating the complete works of Honen. He is also translating the 40-fascicle Chinese text of the Mahayana version of the Mahaparinirvana sutra. His research is primarily focused on Japan, and includes the topics of historical consciousness, death and funerary culture, Pure Land Buddhist thought and culture (particularly visual culture), and Buddhist ethics in modern Japan. [http://buddhiststudies.berkeley.edu/people/alumni_profiles.html Source (Accessed April 22, 2012)]
|bio=Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, received his M.A. in Japanese Literature from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies in 1990 from the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in Pure Land Buddhism throughout East Asia, with a focus on the Japanese medieval period. He also works in the area of Japanese Buddhist reponses to modernism, Buddhist conceptions of death in China and Japan, historical consciousness in Buddhist thought, and the impact of the Nirvana Sutra (Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra) in East Asian Buddhism. He is the author of ''The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism'' (2002), and co-editor of ''Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism'' (2005) and ''Cultivating Spirituality'' (2011), and his translation from Chinese of ''The Nirvana Sutra: Volume 1'' (2013). He is currently working on completing ''Think Buddha, Say Buddha: A History of Nenbutsu Thought, Practice, and Culture''. ([http://ealc.berkeley.edu/faculty/blum-mark Source Accessed May 31, 2019])
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bio Mark Blum, Professor and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Chair in Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, received his M.A. in Japanese Literature from UCLA and his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies in 1990 from the University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in Pure Land Buddhism throughout East Asia, with a focus on the Japanese medieval period. He also works in the area of Japanese Buddhist reponses to modernism, Buddhist conceptions of death in China and Japan, historical consciousness in Buddhist thought, and the impact of the Nirvana Sutra (Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra) in East Asian Buddhism. He is the author of The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism (2002), and co-editor of Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism (2005) and Cultivating Spirituality (2011), and his translation from Chinese of The Nirvana Sutra: Volume 1 (2013). He is currently working on completing Think Buddha, Say Buddha: A History of Nenbutsu Thought, Practice, and Culture. (Source Accessed May 31, 2019)
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