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Lisa Kochinski

Lisa Kochinski earned her MA at Kyushu University, and is currently a PhD candidate (ABD) in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California. She specializes in Japanese premodern religions, with an interest in Buddhist ritual and mortuary culture. Her dissertation traces the development of the Zen segaki 施餓鬼 ghost-feeding ritual in the late medieval period using a variety of sources including aristocratic and monastic diaries, war chronicles, and Zen rules of purity.

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