Jacqueline Stone

Jacqueline Stone served as Professor of Japanese Religions at Princeton University from 1990 to 2019. She is the author of Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism, which received a 2001 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion.
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IdeasMagazine | Feature

Knowing Nichiren

Scholar Jacqueline Stone on one of Buddhism’s great traditions and its founder

An interview with Jacqueline Stone by Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins

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IdeasMagazine | Feature

How to Read the Lotus Sutra

The Lotus Sutra is one of the foremost Buddhist texts, but to the uninitiated reader, it can make little or no sense.

Interview with Jacqueline Stone and Donald S. Lopez Jr. by James Shaheen

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