Reeves, G.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Gene
LastName / namelast	Reeves
MainNamePhon	Gene Reeves
SortName	Reeves, Gene
bio	Gene Reeves studied, taught, and wrote in Japan for twenty years, primarily on Buddhism and interfaith relations. When he retired from the University of Tsukuba, where he taught for eight years, he served as the international advisor at Rissho Kosei- kai. He was a founder of and the special minister for the International Buddhist Congregation in Tokyo, and he also served as the international advisor to the Niwano Peace Foundation and was the coordinator of an annual International Seminar on the Lotus Sutra. In the spring of 2008, Reeves was a visiting professor at the University of Peking, Beijing, China. Reeves was active in interfaith conversations and organizations: he served as chair of the Planning Committee for the 1987 Congress of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) at Stanford University; he was one of the founders of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions; and he was a member of the Board of the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies. In Japan he was an advisor to the Japan Liaison Committee of the IARF and a participant in the Religious Summit at Mount Hiei and in various activities of the World Conference of Religions for Peace. As a Buddhist teacher, he traveled frequently to China, Singapore, Taiwan, America, and Europe to give talks at universities and churches, mainly on the Lotus Sutra. Gene Reeves died in 2019. (Source: Wisdom Publications)
YearBirth	1933/04/02
YearDeath	2019/05/08
BornIn	Franklin, NH
phduniversity	Emory University
education	PhD in Philosophy of Religion, Emory University, 1963. Honorary Doctor of Divinity, Meadville Lombard Theological School, 2014. BA in Psychology, University of New Hampshire, 1956 BST (Bachelor of Sacred Theology), Boston University, 1959.
IsInGyatsa	No
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Gene Reeves