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Mark L. Blum
Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
Areas of expertise:
Buddhism; religion
Buddhism; religion
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(518) 442-4183
Biography:
Mark L. Blum is a specialist in Buddhist thought and culture in the East Asian Studies department at UAlbany. He has also lectured on fundamentalist religion and is currently writing a book on the appeal of fundamentalist ideology in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism, and its social and spiritual implications.
Mark L. Blum is a specialist in Buddhist thought and culture in the East Asian Studies department at UAlbany. He has also lectured on fundamentalist religion and is currently writing a book on the appeal of fundamentalist ideology in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism, and its social and spiritual implications.

