Robert Buswell Jr.

Robert Evans Buswell Jr. (born 1953) is an American academic and writer on Korean Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism as well as Korean religions in general. He is a distinguished professor emeritus of Buddhist studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and founding director of the Academy of Buddhist Studies (Korean: 불교 학술원) at Dongguk University, Korea's main Buddhist university.

He retired from UCLA in 2022.