Richard Karl Payne
Author of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia
About the Author
Richard K. Payne is Dean and Yehan Numata Professor of Japanese Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, California. A member of the doctoral faculty on the Graduate Theological Union, he is also a collaborating researcher with the Open Research Center for the Humanities, show more Science, and Religion at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan. He is an ordained Shingon Buddhist preist, and editor of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia. show less
Works by Richard Karl Payne
Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitabha (Studies in East Asian Buddhism) (2003) 20 copies
Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) (2006) 7 copies
Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée (Oxford Ritual Studies) (2015) 4 copies
Pacific World, Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies (Third Series, Number 4, Fall 2002) (2002) 1 copy
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Payne's work, which brings together in one place a "critical mass" of scholarship, will create a sea change in the understanding of the history of East Asian Buddhism and Tantra.… (more)