Bret W. Davis is Professor & Higgins Chair in Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland, where he teaches courses on Asian, Western, and cross-cultural philosophy, and where he directs The Heart of Zen Meditation Group. In addition to attaining a Ph.D. in philosophy at Vanderbilt University, he has studied and taught in Germany and Japan, While living in Japan for more than a dozen years, he studied Buddhist philosophy at Otani University and Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University while practicing Rinzai Zen at Shōkokuji monastery. Prof. Davis has published more than eighty scholarly articles on Zen Buddhism, the Kyoto School, Heidegger, and …

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