Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).
Professor, authority on premodern Japanese religion. Author of "Jewel in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan" (Harvard U. Asia Center) and co-author, "A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism" (Wiley-Blackwell).