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Rev. Dr. Alicia Orloff Matsunaga (1932~1998)

A native of Livermore California, who received B.A. degree from the University of California, and M.A. from the University of Redlands, theological training in Kyoto, Japan and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. She taught nine years of Buddhism and Oriental culture at UCLA and then was summoned back to Japan to become the Bomori or Vice Pastor of the Eikyoji and worked over a decade to further develop the temple. In 1989 she founded the Reno Buddhist Church with her husband and planted a seed of Buddhism in Nevada.
Her first book THE BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY OF ASSIMILATION was awarded the NHK (Japanese National Broadcasting) award. Together with her husband she has written and translated over a dozen books, the most well known being THE FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE BUDDHISM Vol. I and II, which are nationally well known college text books.
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Founders of Reno Buddhist Church Eikyoji Institute of America (a.k.a.)
Rev. Dr. Alicia Orloff Matsunaga (1932~1998) A native of Livermore California, who received B.A. degree from the University of California, and M.A. from the University of Redlands, theological training in Kyoto, Japan and a Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. She taught nine years of Buddhism and Oriental culture at UCLA and then was summoned back to Japan to become the Bomori or Vice Pastor of the Eikyoji and worked over a decade to further develop the temple. In 1989 she founded the Reno Buddhist Church with her husband and planted a seed of Buddhism in Nevada. Her first book THE BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY OF ASSIMILATION was awarded the NHK (Japanese National Broadcasting) award. Together with her husband she has written and translated over a dozen books, the most well known being THE FOUNDATION OF JAPANESE BUDDHISM Vol. I and II, which are nationally well known college text books. (