Jacqueline Stone

Jacqueline Stone is professor of Japanese Religion in the Religion Department of Princeton University. Her chief research field is Japanese Buddhism of the medieval and modern periods. Her research areas include death and dying in Buddhist cultures, Buddhism and national identity formation, and traditions of the Lotus Sutra, particularly Tendai and Nichiren. She is interested in the intersections of doctrine and social practice and how Buddhist thought has been reinterpreted in changing contexts. Her publications include Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (1999) and Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan (2016); she has also co-edited multiple volumes of collected essays. Stone has served as president of the Society for the Study of Japanese Religions and co-chair of the Buddhism section of the American Academy of Religion. Currently she is vice president of the editorial board of the Kuroda Institute for the Study of Buddhism and a member of the advisory board of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.