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Billy Brewster


Ernest Billings (Billy) Brewster is currently lecturer at Iona College, Department of Religious Studies. He received his doctorate from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2018, for a dissertation treating the history of medieval Chinese Buddhist doctrinal conceptualizations of death and dying. These doctrinal conceptualizations provide the theoretical underpinnings for end-of-life rituals meant to attenuate suffering in the dying individual. During the academic year of Fall 2018-Spring 2019, he was Sheng Yen Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism at UBC, Department of Asian Studies.


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