John S. Strong

John S. Strong is an American academic, who is the Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Bates College. Strong specializes in Buddhist studies and with emphasis on the Buddha's biography, relics, and the legends and cults of South Asia.

John Strong was born in China, and completed his secondary education in

Strong's research program is in the area of Buddhist Studies, with a special focus on Buddhist legendary and cultic traditions in India and South Asia. He has received fellowships for his work from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Peradeniya, the University of Chicago, and Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Buddhist topics:

• The Legend of
  King Asoka
  (Princeton, 1983);
• The Legend and Cult of Upagupta (Princeton, 1992);
• The Experience of Buddhism (Wadsworth, 1995);
• The Buddha: A Beginner’s Guide (OneWorld Publications, 2001);
• Relics of the Buddha (Princeton, 2004);
• Buddhisms: An Introduction (OneWorld, 2015).

See also

• Trapusa and Bahalika

References

External links

• Profile at Bates Archived 2013-06-24 at the Wayback Machine
• 2011 CV

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