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Duncan Ryūken Williams (1969-)

Dharma name: 隆賢 Ryūken

Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams was ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest at Kotakuji Temple (Nagano, Japan) in 1993. He served as a Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2000. Currently, he is Professor in and the Chair of the USC School of Religion and Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture in Los Angeles. Previously, he held the Ito Distinguished Chair of Japanese Buddhism at UC Berkeley and served as the Director of Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies. Williams is the author of the LA Times bestseller American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2019) about Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American internment; The Other Side of Zen (Princeton University Press, 2005), and editor of 7 books including Issei Buddhism in the Americas, American Buddhism, and Buddhism and Ecology. He has written op-eds about Buddhism for the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.

https://discovercal.berkeley.edu/speakers/duncan-ryuken-williams/
https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/enlightening-the-west/
https://www.duncanryukenwilliams.com/

PDF: The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan
by Duncan Ryūken Williams
Princeton University Press, 2004

How Dosho's medicine saved Dogen: medicine, Doshoan and Edo-period Dogen biographies
by Duncan Ryuken Williams
in: Chapter 8. PDF: Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context (2003)

Williams, Duncan Ryuken. “Camp Dharma.” Tricycle (Summer 2017).

American sutra: a story of faith and freedom in the Second World War
by Duncan Ryuken Williams
2019

Buddhism and ecology: the interconnection of dharma and deeds
edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryiken Williams
1997

American Buddhism: Methods and Findings in Recent Scholarship
edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams and Christopher S. Queen
1999

Issei Buddhism in the Americas
edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams and Tomoe Moriya
2010