Professor Lancaster speaking in Australia, 2013

Lewis R. Lancaster (born 29 October 1932) is Emeritus Professor of the Department of East Asian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and has served as President, Adjunct Professor, and Chair of the dissertation committee at University of the West since 1992. He graduated from Roanoke College (B.A.) in 1954 and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Roanoke in 2007. He is also a 1958 graduate of USC-ST (M.Th.) and a 1968 graduate of the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.). He received an Honorary Doctorate of Buddhist Studies from Vietnam Buddhist University in 2011.

Lewis Lancaster has published over 55 articles and reviews and has edited or authored numerous books including Prajnaparamita and Related Systems, The Korean Buddhist Canon, Buddhist Scriptures, Early Ch’an in China and Tibet, and Assimilation of Buddhism in Korea. He also founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the computer-based technology to map the spread of Buddhism from the remote past to the present.

In the fall of 1977, Lancaster accompanied artist and monk Jung-kwang as they traveled through Korea, and published a book based on their trip.[1]

In 2008 Lancaster gave the Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society.[2] Professor Lancaster is the research advisor for the Buddha's Birthday Education Project.[3] He was the Chair of Buddhist Studies at UC, Berkeley, USA and Editor of the Berkeley Buddhist Studies Series.

Lancaster is the research adviser for the Buddha's Birthday Education Project, which has documented and hosted art exhibitions of the celebration of the Buddha's birthday in Chinese Buddhism throughout history.[4]

Lancaster was a key figure in the creation of descriptive catalogue and digitization of the Korean Buddhist Canon.[5] He was awarded the 2014 Grand Award from the Korean Buddhist Order for his contribution to Buddhism.

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Reference List

  1. ^ Jung, FirstName (1979). The mad monk : paintings of unlimited action. Berkeley, Calif: Lancaster-Miller Publishers. ISBN 0-89581-017-4.
  2. ^ "Lewis Lancaster: Buddhism in a Global Age of Technology". University of California Television. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  3. ^ "Lewis Lancaster". Buddha's Birthday Education Project. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  4. ^ Juewei (2013). Parading the Buddha – Localizing Buddha's Birthday Celebration. Los Angeles: Buddha's Light Publishing. ISBN 978-1-932293-83-8. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  5. ^ Lancaster, Lewis, ed. (1979). The Korean Buddhist Canon A Descriptive Catalogue. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520031593. [1] and [2]. Both retrieved 9 March 2020
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