Professor of Japanese Thought and Intercultural Philosophy, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University. Major research fields: Nishida Kitarō’s philosophy, D. T. Suzuki's life and thought, women in Japanese Buddhism, poet Matsuo Bashō, Raimon Panikkar's philosophy; Selected publicaitons: Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarō (2002); Japanese Religious Traditions (2002), etc.