He received an M.S. in Environmental Science from Drexel University (1993), and a Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University (2004). Dr. Forte teaches courses on Buddhist Studies, Asian Religions, Asian Film and Culture, and Religion and the Environment, and has offered travel courses to Japan (2008, 2010) and India (2011). His main research interests are in Buddhist Ethics, Comparative Philosophy, and Interreligious Dialogue, and has published articles in these fields, including, “Early Buddhist Inclusion of Intentionality in the Laws of Causation” (2006), “Finding Peace in the Simile of the Saw” (2007), “Reflections on the Ethical Meaning of Shinran’s True Entrusting” (2009), and a co-authored translation of Ueda Shizutera’s “Seimei, Sei, and Inochi: Three Japanese Concepts of Life” (2014). Gift of Education