Frank M. Tedesco

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Dr. Frank M. Tedesco is a Buddhist teacher, writer, filmmaker, and social activist. He founded True Dharma International Buddhist Mission, a 501(c)(3) charity. He resides in the Tampa Bay area of Florida with his wife Jinsuk and four aging chihuahuas. He volunteers as a Buddhist spiritual care advisor for Suncoast Hospice. He is active with Interfaith Tampa Bay, the Uberoi Foundation for Religious Studies. he has taught Eastern religions and anthropology at various colleges He also teaches preparing for death and spiritual healing. His current film project is Good Death, Auspicious Rebirth. It's about dying in the four Dharma traditions of India.

  • Frank was born in 1946 in New York, USA, to second generation Italian -American parents, themselves children of descendants born for many generations in a small hamlet in western Sicily. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (1971), M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Lancaster, UK (1974), and a Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Dongguk University, Korea. (1998). He has also undertaken doctoral research in medical anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania (1975-80), and completed a psychiatric residency in Anthropology as a practicum in transcultural psychiatry at the Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia between 1975-1977. He is well-known for his research on the social and religious dimensions of Buddhism and the practice of abortion in Korea, as well as social engaged Buddhism in general and contemporary inter-religious affairs.

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