Gene Reeves is a philosopher of religion, who, after a career in teaching and academic administration in the U.S., most recently at the University of Chicago, came to Japan to Tsukuba University, where he taught for eight years, up to his recent retirement. Busy in retirement, Gene is teaching part-time in various places, while continuing his work on a new translation of the Lotus Sutra. He has generously offered the results of his research on that sutra to the DDB.