Jerome Ducor

Jerome Ducor studied Buddhism at Lausanne University. He graduated thereafter in religious studies and passed his doctorate in japonology at the University of Geneva. He specialized in japanese Buddhism at Ryûkoku University and received ordination and master in the Jôdo-Shinshû school of Buddhism at Hompa-Honganji (Kyôto). From 1992 to 1993 he has been teaching East-Asian religions at McGill University (Montreal). Teaching as a privat-docent at the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations of the University of Lausanne since 1993, he is the curator of the Asia Department of Geneva's Ethnographic Museum since 1995.