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Mark Blum, PhD.
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies
- Office: Humanities 254E
- Telephone: 518-442-4183
- E-mail: mblum@albany.edu
- Spring 2008 Office Hours: TTH 3:00 pm-4:00 pm
Professor Blum’s research focuses on: the changes in Buddhist thought and culture as it moved from India to China and Japan, particularly notions of karma, the afterlife, and the Buddhist doctrine of tathâgatagarbha; Japan’s initial acceptance of Buddhism, the rise and spread of the Pure Land School in Japan; medieval Japanese Buddhism; the response of Buddhism to modernity in Japan, particularly regarding ethics.
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