In celebration of his life and accomplishments, IBS will honor Rev. Unno was also an ordained Shin Buddhist minister in Nishi Honganji tradition, and he devoted his career to working in Shin Buddhist communities across North America. In addition to his prolific scholarly career, Rev. He was the author, translator, and editor of numerous academic volumes and articles, but he is perhaps best known for his two works introducing Shin Buddhism to English-language audiences, River of Fire, River of Water: An Introduction to the Pure Land Tradition of Shin Buddhism and Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turned into Gold, as well as his translation Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic. For forty years he taught in the field of Buddhist studies, first at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, then at Smith College, where he served as Department Chair and as the Jill Ker Conway Professor of World Religions. Unno was a graduate of the Univeristy of California, Berkeley, and Tokyo Univeristy. Taitetsu Unno (1929-2014), the Institute of Buddhist Studies is pleased to announced the Taitetsu Unno Memorial Lecture, to be held on Friday March 31, from 4-6pm, both in person at the Jodo Shinshu center and virtually.Ī prolific author and scholar, Rev. With generous support from the Unno family and in honor of the Seventh Cycle Memorial for Rev.
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