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PhD Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Masters Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors Religious Studies University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Albert Welter is a scholar of East Asian Buddhism, particularly Chinese Buddhism in the Tang to Song Dynasty transition. From 2013, he has served as Professor and Head of the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and was formerly Chair of the Department of Religion and Culture at the University of Winnipeg , where he also initiated the East Asian Languages and Cultures program. Welter's work also encompasses a broader interest in Chinese administrative policies toward Buddhism, including Chinese notions of secularism and their impact on religious beliefs and practices. His work also covers Buddhist interactions with Neo-Confucianism and literati culture. His is currently involved in the Hangzhou Region Buddhist Culture Project, supported by the Khyentse Foundation, in conjunction with Zhejiang University, the Hangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, and the Hangzhou Buddhist Academy. His monograph, A Tale of Two Stūpas: Histories of Hangzhou relic veneration through two of its most enduring monuments, is currently in press . Another volume, The Future of China’s Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China’s Rise is under review. He has also received funding from the American Council of Learned Societies for an international conference, “Creating the World of Chan/ Sŏn /Zen: Chinese Chan Buddhism and its Spread throughout East Asia.” Dr. Welter's research was supported for many years by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and is widely regarded as an expert in his area of scholarship.

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Albert Welter's Published Works

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The Linji lu and the creation of Chan orthodoxy : the development of Chan's records of sayings literature (2008) (27)
Inquiry into the origin of humanity : an annotated translation of Tsung-mi's Yüan jen lun with a modern commentary (1998) (25)
Yongming Yanshou's Conception of Chan in the Zongjing lu: A Special Transmission Within the Scriptures (2011) (14)
Monks, Rulers, and Literati: The Political Ascendancy of Chan Buddhism (2006) (14)
Religion, Culture, and the Public Sphere in China and Japan (2017) (12)
The Meaning of Myriad Good Deeds: A Study of Yung-Ming Yen-Shou and the WAN-Shan T'Ung-Kuei Chi (1986) (10)
The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China (2007) (7)
Zanning and Chan: The Changing Nature of Buddhism in Early Song China (1995) (4)
Monks, rulers, and literati (2006) (4)
Buddhist Rituals for Protecting the Country in Medieval Japan: Myōan Eisai's "Regulations of the Zen School" (2008) (3)
The problem with orthodoxy in Zen Buddhism: Yongming Yanshou's notion of zong in the Zongjin lu (Records of the Source Mirror) (2002) (2)
Confucian Monks and Buddhist Junzi: Zanning’s Topical Compendium of the Buddhist Clergy (Da Song seng shi lüe 大宋僧史略) and the Politics of Buddhist Accommodation at the Song Court (2016) (2)
Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism (review) (2006) (2)
The Sphere of Privilege: Confucian Culture and the Administration of Buddhism (and Religion) in China (2017) (1)
Lineage and Context in the Patriarch's Hall Collection and the Transmission of the Lamp (2006) (1)
Goroku no shisōshi: Chūgoku Zen no kenkyū 語録の思想史――中国禅の研究 . By Ogawa Takashi 小川隆. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2011; xvi + 450, plus 26 pages of indices and charts. ISBN 10: 4000229087; 13: 9784000229081. (2012) (1)
The Hostage An Shigao and His Offspring: An Iranian Family in China (review) (1999) (1)
Yongming Yanshou : Scholastic as Chan Master (2010) (1)
Essays Not So Quiet on the Eastern Front : On Deconstructing and Reconstructing Traditional Zen Narrativesrsr (2011) (0)
Yulu Formation in Chinese Chan: The Records of Qingyuan Xingsi and Nanyue Huairang (2020) (0)
Zen Buddhism as the Ideology of the Japanese State (2006) (0)
2. Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective (0)
Beyond Lineage Orthodoxy: Yongming Yanshou's Model of Chan as Bodhisattva Cultivation (2013) (0)
Strange Brew: The Fictional Background to Yulu Encounter Dialogues (2008) (0)
Buddhist Ritual and the State (2021) (0)
Literati Influences on the Compilation of Chan Records: The Jingde [Era] Transmission of the Lamp and the Tiansheng [Era] Expanded Lamp Record (2006) (0)
Zen Syncretism: An Examination of Dōgen's Zen Thought in Light of Yongming Yanshou's Chan Teaching in the Zongjing lu (2012) (0)
The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan Qinggui (review) (2005) (0)
Public Places and Privileged Spaces: (2019) (0)
Tracing the Elusive Yulu: The Origins of Chan’s Records of Sayings (2008) (0)
Chan Transmission Records and Factional Motives in the Tang Dynasty (2006) (0)
Philosophies of Place (2019) (0)
A Tale of Two Stūpas (2022) (0)
Zhipan’s Account of the History of Buddhism in China vol.1: Fozu tongji, juan 34-38: From the Times of the Buddha to the Nanbeichao Era, by Thomas Jülch. (2021) (0)
CONFUCIAN SECULARISM IN THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (0)
The Wu-men kuan (J. Mumonkan) (2006) (0)
Yanshou and Chan Lineages (2011) (0)
History of Buddhisms in China (2013) (0)
Confucian Secularism in Theoretical and Historical Perspective (2021) (0)
Eisai’s Promotion of Zen for the Protection of the Country (2020) (0)
Confucian Monks and Buddho-Confucians : A Reappraisal of Wang Yangming's Teaching (2007) (0)
From Cakravartin Ideal to Realpolitik (2011) (0)
31. Buddhist Ritual and the State (1996) (0)
Narration in Action: Early Fragments of Linji’s Teachings (2008) (0)
Zen and Japanese Culture: Nativist Influences on Suzuki Daisetsu’s Interpretation of Zen (2022) (0)
Chan Transmission and Factional Motives in the Patriarch's Hall Anthology (Zutang ji) (2006) (0)
Translation of the Zongjing lu, Fascicle 1 (2011) (0)
Books Received (2003) (0)
Borderland Complexes and Translocations: How a Japanese Tendai Monk Discovered Chan/Zen Buddhism in an Indian Buddhist Homeland in the Hangzhou Region (2021) (0)
11. Public Places and Privileged Spaces: Perspectives on the Public Sphere and the Sphere of Privilege in China and the West (2019) (0)
Linji Lu and Chinese Orthodoxy (2013) (0)
The “Resurrection” of Yongming Yanshou in Ming Dynasty China: The Yongming Stūpa at Jingci Monastery (2020) (0)
Yongming Yanshou and the Complexities of Chan Identity (2011) (0)
How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China by Morten Schlütter (review) (2019) (0)
Literati Interpretations of Chan Buddhism in Early Song China (2006) (0)
The Historical and Geographical Context of Chan's Official Acceptance (2006) (0)
The Teachings of the Patriarchs (2011) (0)
Toward a Conclusion: The Linji lu and the Process of Yulu Formation (2008) (0)
Zen Buddhism in the 20th Century . By Heinrich Dumoulin. Translated and adapted from the German by Joseph S. O'Leary. New York: Weatherhill, 1992. xii, 173 pp. $14.95. (1992) (0)
Reimagining the Dharma: Yanshou, Daoyuan, and Zanning on the Three Pillars of Buddhism (2022) (0)
Establishing the Chan Zong (2011) (0)
The East Asian Public Sphere: Concluding Remarks and Theoretical Considerations (2017) (0)
Revealing the Implicit Truth (2011) (0)
From Cakravartin Ideal to Realpolitik: Zanning and the Accommodation of Chinese Buddhism to Neo-Confucianism (2011) (0)
Secularizing the Sacred, Sacralizing the Secular Reflections on the Buddhist Monastic Institution in China (2010) (0)
Giving Form to the Formless: The Formation of the Linji lu (2008) (0)
The Buddhist School of Principle and the Early Song Intellectual Terrain (2011) (0)
Chan Transmission and Factional Motives in the Jingde [Era] Transmission of the Lamp (Jingde Chuandeng lu) (2006) (0)
Official Recognition of Chan Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty (2006) (0)
Books Received (1987) (0)
Defining Orthodoxy in the Chan/Zen Traditions (2008) (0)
Dōgen Zen and Song Dynasty China (2012) (0)
Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (review) (2003) (0)
Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism (review) (2005) (0)
Chan/Zen Conceptions of Orthodoxy (2014) (0)
7 The Wumen kuan ( J . Mumonkan ) : The Formation , Propagation , and Characteristics of a Classic Zen Kōan Text (2018) (0)

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