Lewis Lancaster

Lewis R. Lancaster (born 27 October 1932) is Emeritus Professor of the Department of East Asian Languages at the

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, USA, and has served as President, Adjunct Professor, and Chair of the dissertation committee at

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since 1992. He graduated from

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(B.A.) in 1954 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Roanoke in 2007. He is also a 1958 graduate of USC-ST (M.Th.) and a 1968 graduate of the

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(Ph.D.). He received an Honorary Doctorate of Buddhist Studies from Vietnam Buddhist University in 2011. Lewis Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems, The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch’an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea. He also founded the

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to use the computer-based technology to map the spread of Buddhism from the remote past to the present. In the fall of 1977, Lancaster accompanied artist and monk

Jung-kwang Jung-kwang or Junggwang (1935–2003) was a Korean monk, who became an artist known for his bizarre paintings and eccentric life style. He was born with the name Go Chang-ryul, and used that name until he became a monk at age 25. Because of his ...

as they traveled through Korea, and published a book based on their trip. In 2008 Lancaster gave the Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society. Professor Lancaster is the research advisor for the Buddha's Birthday Education Project. He was the Chair of Buddhist Studies at UC, Berkeley, USA and Editor of the Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series. Lancaster is the research adviser for the Buddha's Birthday Education Project, which has documented and hosted art exhibitions of the celebration of the Buddha's birthday in Chinese Buddhism throughout history. Lancaster was a key figure in the creation of descriptive catalogue and digitization of the Korean Buddhist Canon.
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Both retrieved 9 March 2020 He was awarded the 2014 Grand Award from the Korean Buddhist Order for his contribution to Buddhism. External Links
Faculty page at University of California, Berkeley

Lewis Lancaster page at Buddha's Birthday Education Project

Faculty Page at Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong
* ''The Korean Buddhist Canon: A Descriptive Catalogue''

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