A. Charles Muller, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature, State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook, 1993; B.A., Religious Studies, Stony Brook), is a professor in the Department of Education, Musashino University, where he is director of the Institute of Buddhist culture and teaches courses in Buddhist Studies, and Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo, where he taught courses in Digital Humanities, Chinese Philosophy, and Korean Philosophy and Religion. Previously, he taught philosophy and religion at Toyo Gakuen University.