Professor Lewis Lancaster, the first person to complete the Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin, taught at the University of California, Berkeley for thirty-three years. During his tenure, he held the post of Chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Director of the Center for Korean Studies, and headed the University Teaching Committee. He was a chief organizer of the doctoral program in the Group in Buddhist Studies, his own field of research.
He has published extensively on East Asian Buddhist canons and the history and interpretation of Buddhism in Korea, China, Mongolia, Tibet, and Thailand. By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried Buddhist texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas.
Professor Lancaster was exchange professor at Pekin University in Beijing, Rissho University in Tokyo, and Korea University in Seoul, and held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan and Dartmouth College. After retirement from Berkeley, he became President of the University of the West, a Buddhist institution in Rosemead, California, guiding that campus to accreditation before resuming his research focus.
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Location: Robinson Building Complex at UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA
For more information please call: (858) 534-6270
He has published extensively on East Asian Buddhist canons and the history and interpretation of Buddhism in Korea, China, Mongolia, Tibet, and Thailand. By means of a grant from the National Geographic Society, he and a group of students and faculty inventoried Buddhist texts in monasteries among the Sherpa people in the Himalayas.
Professor Lancaster was exchange professor at Pekin University in Beijing, Rissho University in Tokyo, and Korea University in Seoul, and held visiting appointments at the University of Michigan and Dartmouth College. After retirement from Berkeley, he became President of the University of the West, a Buddhist institution in Rosemead, California, guiding that campus to accreditation before resuming his research focus.
Admission: Free
Location: Robinson Building Complex at UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA
For more information please call: (858) 534-6270
