About - T. Griffith FOULK

T. Griffith FOULK

Assistant professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan. Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies, University of Michigan, 1987): "The 'Ch'an School' and Its Place in the Buddhist Monastic Tradition." Recent publications: "The Zen Institution in Modern Japan," in Zen: Tradition and Transition, ed. Kenneth Kraft (New York: Grove Press, 1988) and "Issues in the Field of East Asian Buddhist Studies: An Extended Review of Sudden and Gradual: Appproaches to Enlightenment in Chinese Thought" Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 16.1 (1993). Currently completing a book tentatively entitled The Ch'an Lineage in Medieval China: A Myth and Its Institution.