Authors
Shizuteru Ueda
Shizuteru Ueda, born in 1926, has been a disciple of Nishitani Keiji for over fifty years and his successor in the Department of Religion at Kyoto University, thereby assuring the continuation of the Kyoto tradition which began with Nishida Kitaro. After receiving doctorates from Kyoto University and the University of Marburg, he contributed numerous studies in the fields of German mysticism and modern German thought, on Zen Buddhism, and on the philosophy of Nishida, to both Japanese and German journals. He was also a regular speaker at the Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. His major work on the mysticism of Meister Eckhart, Die Gottesgeburt in der Seele und der Durchbruch zur Gottheit, has been received with particular interest. Dr. Shizuteru Ueda wrote the essay “‘Nothingness’ in Meister Eckhart and Zen Buddhism” that appears in The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries (World Wisdom, 2004).
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Tetsuo Unno
Rev. Tetsuo Unno studied at U.C. Berkeley, Ryukoku University (Kyoto), Tokyo University, and UCLA. He served as Minister at Buddhist Churches of America’s Seattle and Senshin (L.A.) Buddhist Churches. He has taught Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge and Long Beach.Rev. Unno is the author of the foreword in Naturalness: A Classic of Shin Buddhim by Kenryo Kanamatsu
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Taitetsu Unno
Dr. Taitetsu Unno is considered by many to be America’s foremost authority on Pure Land Buddhism as developed by Honen and Shinran in thirteenth-century Japan.Having retired from Smith College in December 1998, Taitetsu Unno is now the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion. He taught Buddhism and Japanese aesthetics at that institution since 1971. Dr. Unno is an ordained Shin Buddhist minister, and the founder and Sensei of the Northampton Shin Buddhist Sangha.Dr. Taitestsu Unno is the author of the introduction to World Wisdom’s Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays on Shin Buddhism, a collection of articles on Shin Buddhism edited by Alfred Bloom. Dr. Unno also contributed the essay “The Practice of Jodo-shinshu” to Living in Amida’s Universal Vow.
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Charles Upton
Charles Upton is a poet, author, and activist who has published numerous books on Sufism, Metaphysics, and other topics. He published his first books of poetry at age 19 and became involved in antiwar and New Age movements before his initiation into a traditional Sufi order in the late 1980’s. He has written several notable books, including The System of the Antichrist: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age and Shadow of the Rose: The Esoterism of the Romantic Tradition. Upton contributed the article “The Transcendent Unity of Religions and Spiritual Practice” to the forthcoming World Wisdom book, Crossing Religious Frontiers.
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Algis Uždavinys
Dr. Algis Uždavinys (1962-2010) was a senior research fellow at the Lithuanian State Institute of Culture, Philosophy, and Arts and an associate professor at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts in his native Lithuania. Prof. Uždavinys’ work has been published in English, French, and Lithuanian. He translated the works of Frithjof Schuon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Plotinus into Russian and Lithuanian. Dr. Uždavinys’ work has regularly been featured in journals such as Sophia and Sacred Web.Dr. Uždavinys was the editor of The Golden Chain: An Anthology of Platonic and Pythagorean Philosophy, and The Heart of Plotinus: The Essential Enneads.
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