Foulk, T.
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- Primary Affiliation (Workplace)
- Sarah Lawrence College
PhD University
- University of Michigan
Education
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Michigan; B.A. Williams College
Biographical Information
T. Griffith Foulk trained in Zen monasteries in Japan. He is active in Buddhist studies, with research interests in philosophical, literary, social, and historical aspects of East Asian Buddhism, especially the Ch’an/Zen tradition. He is co-editor in chief of the Soto Zen Text Project (Tokyo). He is a member of the American Academy of Religion Buddhism Section steering committee, 1987–1994, 2003–, and a board member for the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Human Values. He was also a recipient of Fulbright, Eiheiji, and Japan Foundation fellowships and grants from American Council of Learned Societies and National Endowment for the Humanities. (Source Accessed June 11, 2019)
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All beings have Buddha-nature | |
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Which Wheel Turning | |
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka | |
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Zhentong vs Rangtong | |
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Promotes how many vehicles? | |
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition | |
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What is Buddha-nature? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda | |
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