Dennis Hirota is a professor in the Department of Shin Buddhism at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in Berkeley, California in 1946 and received his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley. In 2008, he was a visiting professor of Buddhism^[1] at Harvard Divinity School where his studies focused on the Buddhist monk Shinran.^[2]

He has worked extensively as a translator and editor of Buddhist works. He is particularly known for his translation work in The Collected Works of Shinran. He has also published numerous books and articles, in both English and Japanese, on Pure Land Buddhism and Buddhist aesthetics.

Resources

• The Collected Works of Shinran
• Podcasts of a six-part lecture series on Shinran given at the Institute of Buddhist Studies at Berkeley.
• Shinran, Barth, and Religion: Engagement with Religious Language as an Issue of Comparative Theology