Stephen F. Teiser – is D.T. Suzuki Professor in Buddhist Studies and Professor in the Department of Religion. He received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He received the Joseph Levenson Book Prize (pre-twentieth century) for "The Scripture on the Ten Kings" and the Making of Purgatory in Medieval Chinese Buddhism (1994). His other publications include The Ghost Festival in Medieval China (1988) and a new book, Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples (forthcoming, 2006). Recently he introduced a new course, cross-listed in the Humanities Council, on great books in Buddhism. With support from the Luce Foundation, he is planning to teach a site seminar in Tibet that combines methods from art history and Buddhist studies for Ph.D. students in the summer of 2007. His new research studies liturgical manuscripts from medieval China.

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