Lori Meeks is an American academic. She is an associate professor of religion and East Asian languages and cultures at the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in C ...

Biography

Meeks received her BA from

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and PhD from

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. Her research has focused on the social, cultural, and intellectual histories of

Buddhism in Japan Buddhism has been practiced in Japan since about the 6th century CE. Japanese Buddhism () created many new Buddhist schools, and some schools are original to Japan and some are derived from Chinese Buddhist schools. Japanese Buddhism has had a ...

, with a special focus on the roles of women in the religious worlds of premodern East Asia. She is currently on the faculty of the University of Southern California. Meeks received the 2012 John Whitney Hall Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies for her book ''Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan'' (2011). She is also a two-time ACLS Fellow.

References

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