Professor Kyoko Tokuno
University of Washington
427 Thomson
Box 353650
Seattle, Washington 98195
Tel: 685-0105
tokuno@u.washington.edu
EMPLOYMENT
University of Washington:
- University of Washington,
2008-present : Senior Lecturer of East Asian Religions
- University of Washington,
2002-2008: Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions;
- University of Washington,
2001-2002: Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions.
Other Universities:
- University of Oregon,
1999-2000: Research Associate, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies;
- University of Oregon,
1994-99: Assistant Professor of East Asian Religion;
- University of Oregon,
1992-94: Acting Assistant Professor of East Asian Religion.
COURSES
- RELIG 490/590
Special Topics (Religion in Japan; Women in Buddhism; Engaged Buddhism;
Religious Syncretism in East Asia; New Religions of East Asia; Skillful
Means in Buddhism; Lay Buddhism; Sources of East Asian Religions: Apocryphal
Scriptures; Readings in East Asian Buddhist Scriptures)
- SISEA 445
Religion in China
- RELIG 202
Introduction to World Religions: Eastern Traditions
- ASIAN 585
Seminar in Buddhism
- RELIG 354
Buddhism
- RELIG 502
Scripture Canon in Asian Religions
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Buddhist Studies,
University of California, Berkeley, 1994
- M.A. Oriental Languages
(Chinese Language & Literature), University of California, Berkeley,
1983
- B.A. Linguistics,
University of California, Berkeley, 1979
- B.A. Oriental Languages
(Chinese Language & Literature), University of California, Berkeley,
1977.
AREA OF RESEARCH
Buddhist texts and culture
of medieval China and Japan and their relation to Indian Buddhism; concepts
and uses of scripture in East Asian religious traditions; development
of Buddhist canon in East Asia.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Byways in
Medieval Chinese Buddhism: The Book of Trapusa and Indigenous Scriptures
(Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism Series, University
of Hawaii Press; accepted for publication);
- "Is Religious
Violence Inevitable?", co-authored with Jim Wellman (Journal for
the Scientific Study of Religion 43:3, September 2004;
- "Catalogues of
Scriptures" and "Apocrypha" in Encyclopedia of Buddhism
(New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2003);
- Book review:
The Scripture on the Ten Kings and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval
Chinese Buddhism (University of Hawaii Press, 1994) by Stephen F.
Teiser (Journal of Chinese Religions, 1998);
- Translation: "The
Book of Resolving Doubts Concerning the Age of Semblance Dharma,"
in Buddhism in Practice, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr. (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1995);
- Book review:
The Manuscripts of Nanatsu-Dera (Kyoto: Italian School of East Asian
Studies), Occasional Papers 3 (1991) by Ochiai Toshinori (Studies
in Central and East Asian Religions 5/6, 1992-93);
- "Chinese Buddhist
Ethics" in A Bibliographic Guide to the Comparative Study of Ethics,
edited by John Carman and Mark Juergensmeyer (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1991);
- "The Evaluation
of Indigenous Scriptures in Chinese Buddhist Bibliographical Catalogues"
in Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha, edited by Robert Buswell (Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 1990).
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS
- National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship, 2000
- CIAC/Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation Small Grant, 2000
- Summer Research
Award, University of Oregon, 1999
- Chiang Ching-kuo/ACLS
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Studies, 1996
- Humanities Center
Research Fellowship, University of Oregon
- 1994 Summer Research
Award, University of Oregon
- 1994 New Faculty
Award, University of Oregon, 1992
- Charlotte Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation), 1987-88
- Vera Green Memorial
Prize for Excellence in Language (Sanskrit),1 University of California,
Berkeley, 1983
- Foreign Language
and Area Studies Fellowship (Chinese), University of California, Berkeley,
1978-80, 1983-84