Taitetsu Unno

Rev Taitetsu Unno is a scholar, lecturer, and author on the subject of Pure Land Buddhism. His work as a translator has been responsible for making many important Buddhist texts available to the English-speaking world and he is considered one of the leading authorities in the United States on Shin Buddhism, a branch of Pure Land Buddhism.Book Review Dr. Unno is an ordained Shin Buddhist minister and the founding Sensei of the Northampton Shin Buddhist Sangha.
He has published extensively on the subject of Pure Land Buddhism, his most famous works include: Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn Into Gold; River of Fire, River of Water and Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic.
==Biography==
Born in Japan in 1930, Taitetsu Unno immigrated to the United States at the age of six. During World War II he spent three and a half years imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in California.Even Dewdrops Fall: An Interview with Taitetsu Unno Tricycle: The Buddhist Review He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Buddhist Studies from Tokyo University. 
From 1971 to 1998 he taught Buddhism and Japanese aesthetics and was the Jill Ker Conway Professor Emeritus of Religion at Smith College. He retired in December 1998.Author Biography He continues to travel as a lecturer on Japanese Buddhism, religion, and culture.The New York Buddhist Church
==Essays==
*“Is There a God? A Buddhist Answer” by Rev Taitetsu Unno
* “Contrasting Images of the Buddha” by Rev Taitetsu Unno
==Bibliography==
*Buddhism of the Heart: Reflections on Shin Buddhism and Inner Togetherness [foreword] (Wisdom Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-0861715831
*Living in Amida’s Universal Vow: Essays in Shin Buddhism [contributor] (World Wisdom, 2004) ISBN 978-0941532549
*Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician [foreword] (Buddhist Education Center, 2004) ISBN 978-0972139502
*Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot: A Classic of American Buddhism [introduction] (Three Leaves, 2004) ISBN 978-0385510486
*Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold (Image, 2002) ISBN 978-0385504690
*Praying With Our Hands: 21 Practices of Embodied Prayer from the World's Spiritual Traditions [afterword] (Skylight Paths Publishing, 2000) ISBN 978-1893361164
* River of Fire, River of Water (Image, 1998) ISBN 978-0385485111
*Tannisho: A Shin Buddist Classic [translator] (Buddhist Study Center Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0938474180
*The Global Myths: Exploring Primitive, Pagan, Sacred, and Scientific Mythologies [preface] (Plume, 1994) ISBN 978-0452011168
*Shin Buddhism: Monograph Series (Pureland Publications, 1993) ISBN 1877604070
*Mahayana Buddhism: An approach to its essence (Pure Land Publications, 1989) ISBN 978-1877604034
*The Spirit of Aikido [translator] (Kodansha America, 1984) ISBN 978-0870116001
*Notes on "Essentials of Faith Alone": A Translation of Shinran's Yuishinsho-mon'i [translator] (Hongwanji International Center, 1979) ISBN 978-4938490027
==External links==
*Northampton Shin Buddhist Sangha
*Author Page
==References==
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