Luis O. Gómez

Biography:
Charles O. Hucker Professor of Buddhist Studies, Dept. of Asian Languages and Cultures, Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Dept. of Psychology, app’t 1973
B.A. University of Puerto Rico, 1973
M.A. University of Michigan, 1991 (Psychology)
Ph.D. Yale University, 1967
Ph.D. University of Michigan. 1998

Number of Theses/Dissertations Supervised in Past 5 Years: 3

Research/Teaching Specializations: Religion, history of religions, comparative religion, Sanskrit literature, Buddhism, especially late Indian Buddhism, Psychology of Religion

Courses Taught: Introduction to Buddhism, Problems in Buddhism, Buddhism in India, Tools and Methods in Buddhism, Comparative Topics in Buddhism,

Field Research: Japan: 1975-1976; India: 1984; Japan: 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993

Recent Publications: The Land of Bliss, Translation of the Sukhavativyuha Sutras, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Shinshu Otanih with the University of Michigan Collegiate Institute for the Study of Buddhist Literature, 1996

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