| Amy Umezu | M.A.B.S. | 2023 | No Faith in Shinjin: An Exploration of the Translation of Shinjin Through the Hermeneutics of Virtue-Transference |
| Kaitlyn Kongo Mascher-Mace | M.Div. | 2023 | Eshin as Universal Conversion: a Framework for Movement |
| Nisha Rajani Shah | M.Div. | 2022 | Greed as “Dis-Ease”: How the Buddhist Teachings of Suffering Supports the Consideration of Greed as a Determinant of Public Health |
| Austin Kogen Keith | M.A. | 2022 | Standing with Moral Injury: What It Is, What Has Been Done, and a Buddhist Prescription for Care |
| Ellen Hamada Crane | M.A.B.S. | 2022 | A Brief Overview of Shin Buddhist Education in the West with a Focus on the History and Development of the Orange County Buddhist Church Buddhist Education Center: A Model of Success for Shin Buddhist Education and Propagation in the West |
| John Aaron Mullins | M.A.B.S. | 2022 | Building a Brand for the Pure Land: Rennyo and the Marketing of the Nembutsu |
| Cynthia Keiko Yasaki | M.A.B.S. | 2022 | Fazhao: The Chinese Master of Nianfo Practice and Rituals |
| Sakurako Iwagami | M.A. | 2021 | How Japanese Buddhist Communities Attract People Who Are Spiritual But Not Religious |
| Quang Dai Le | M.A. | 2021 | Buddhism in Southeast Asia |
| Jennifer Akiko Rogers | M.Div. | 2021 | Amida's Vow for All Beings: An Analysis of the Historical Development of Universal Acceptance in in Jōdo Shinshū Doctrine |
| Ungyo Lynn Sugiyama | M.B.S. | 2020 | The Wasan: Aspects for a Teaching Tool in Shin Buddhism |
| Cristopher Lee Dunford, Jr. | M.A. | 2020 | Radical Acceptance as a Shin Buddhist Theology of Liberation for LGBTQ+ Peoples |
| Todd Tsuchiya | M.Div. | 2020 | Taiko as “Jishin Kyō Ninshin” in US Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Communities |
| Harumichi Fukaya | M.A. | 2020 | Across the Sea: A Study of Tenrikyo’s North American Mission before World War II |
| Ryoze Wada | M.A. | 2020 | Public and Private Aspects of Seikaku: Tendai Preacher and Pure Land Buddhist |
| Joseph Schuman | M.A. | 2020 | Arising, Ceasing: Hegemonic Masculinity, Complicated Grief, and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy |
| Rhiana Elizabeth H. Wiggins | M.A. | 2019 | The Buddhist Teachings of Impermanence as Heuristic Means: Transforming Fear and Denial of Death and Dying |
| Brent Beavers | M.A. | 2019 | No-self, Five Aggregates, and a Fearless Heart in the Interruption of Transgender Othering in Healthcare |
| Blayne Higa | M.Div. | 2019 | Becoming an Imperfect Companion: Shin Buddhist Spirituarity and the Art of Pastoral Care |
| Tadao Koyama | M.B.S. | 2018 | Chanting in Buddhism: With a Focus on Chanting in the Jodo Shinshu Tradition |
| Daigan Vincent Gaither | M.A. | 2017 | Healing in Oppression: Contributions from Buddhist Teachings and Communities |
| Meg Doshin Gawler | M.A. | 2017 | Voices of Early Buddhist Nuns: A Dharmalogical Approach to the Therīgāthaā |
| Jamie Kimmel | M.A. | 2017 | Buddhist Hospital Chaplaincy at the End of Life: U.S. Healthcare and Challenge of Interdependence |
| Nicole M. MacArgel | M.A. | 2017 | Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition: A Contemporary Organization for Transmitting the Dharma |
| Dawn Patricia Neal | M.A. | 2017 | Discord and its Alternatives in the Atthakavagga of the Pali Canon |
| Thomas Calobrisi | M.A. | 2016 | On Mindful Civil Religion: A Study of the Rhetoric of Mindfulness Movement in the United States |
| Todd T. Jordon | M.A. | 2016 | Narrative and Non-Narrative in Buddhist Pastoral Care |
| Joanne Laurence | M.A. | 2016 | Healing Through Death: Integrating Hospice Chaplaincy with Buddhist Healing Principles |
| Alistair Shanks | M.A. | 2016 | An Examination of the Zen Hospice Project Volunteer Training Program: Implication for the Practice of Buddhist Pastoral Care |
| Pitt Visessuk (Toby) | M.A. | 2016 | Upeakkha (Equanimity) in Definition of Thai Forest Theravada Buddhist Tradition: Application in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care |
| Haruka Beppu | M.A. | 2015 | The Issue of Buddha-Nature in Shin Buddhism in the West |
| Cogen Bohanec | M.A. | 2015 | Compassion Between Selfhood in the Upanisad-s and the Pāli Canon |
| Matthew Hamasaki | M.B.S. | 2015 | The Evolution of Ritual in the Buddhist Churches of America |
| Kory Hideo Quon | M.B.S. | 2015 | A Discussion of Rennyo's Fivefold Teaching for a Truly Settled Life: Namu Amida Butsu in Contemporary Living |
| Candice Tei Shibata | M.A. | 2015 | The Transformation of Attachment, Loss, and Love through Religious Experience |
| Diana L. Clark | M.A. | 2014 | The Ambattha Sutta of the Buddhist Pali Canon: Its Socio-Historical and Literary Context |
| Chenxing Han | M.A. | 2014 | Engaging the Invisible Majority: Conversations with Young Adult Asian American Buddhists |
| Carole Gallucci | M.A. | 2014 | Lojong for Buddhist Chaplains |
| Trent J. Thornley | M.A. | 2014 | A Literary Analysis of the Ariyapariyesanā Sutta |
| Alexander Kantner | M.A. | 2013 | The Invisible Robe: A Comparative Study of Lay and Priest Practice in the American Soto Zen Lineage of Syunryu Suzuki |
| R. Anthony Rodgers | M.A. | 2013 | Authority in Providing Care: Hospital Chaplaincy from a Theravāda Buddhist Perspective |
| Kathryn Bilotti-Stark | M.A. | 2012 | Compassionate Awareness and Transformation: The Relevancy of Mindfulness Teachings and Practices in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care |
| Anne Cottrell Spencer | M.A. | 2012 | Jodo Shinshu in America: A Demographic Survey of the Buddhist Churches of America |
| Alexander McDermid | M.A. | 2012 | Gender in Jōdō Shinshu Temple Families |
| Diana Thompson | M.A. | 2012 | Narrative of Evil: A Comparison of the Ajatastru Story and Batman Graphic Novels |
| Christina Roberta Yanko | M.A. | 2012 | Aspects of Yogācāra in the Discourse on the Pure Land |
| G. Kenji Akahoshi | M.B.S. | 2011 | Interpreting the Two Aspects of Deep Mind Utilizing Psychological Metaphors |
| Linda Dorse | M.B.S. | 2011 | Dōgen in the Kitchen: Expressions of Shikantaza in Instructions for the Cook ( Tenzokyōkun ) |
| Takashi Miyaji | M.B.S. | 2011 | The Shackles of the Self: An Examination of the Hindrance of Doubt on Shinran's Thought |
| Victoria Rose Pinto | M.A. | 2011 | Shinnyo-en: an Early History |
| David Kazuyoshi Fujimoto | M.B.S. | 2010 | A Consideration of Religious Conversion: in Shinra's Thought and from a Modern Perspective |
| Mutsumi Fujiwara Wondra | M.B.S. | 2010 | Interpreting Shinran's Teaching Within a Contemporary Shin Buddhist Community: How does a person who has attained the stage of the truly settled live in the contemporary world? |
| Charles DiSimone | M.A. | 2010 | The Impact of Forest-Dwelling on Early Mahāyāna Buddhism: Being a Study Focused in this Light and a Translation of the Eleventh Chapter of the Śiksāmuccaya of Śāntideva |
| Remy Snow | M.A. | 2010 | Hands on the Elephant - Hands on Our Buddha Nature: An Alternate Perspective of Pastoral/Spiritual Care in Interfaith Healthcare Chaplaincy |
| Naoyuki Ogi | M.A. | 2008 | The Challenge of Revitalizing Buddhism: Learning from the Engaged Buddhist Movements of Thich Nhat Hanh, Shinran and Takagi Kenmyõ |
| Daniel G. Friedrich | M.A. | 2006 | Identity in Difference: Reading Nishida Philosophy Through the Lens of Shin Buddhism |
| Kiyonobu Kuwahara | M.A. | 2006 | On the Possibility of the Anonymous Shin Buddhist: A Comparative Study of the Perspective of Karl Rahner, Shinran, and Buddha-Nature |
| Takuya Hino | M.A. | 2005 | Dōken Shōnin and the Cult of Kinpusen in the Deification of Sugawara no Michizane |
| Natalie E. Fisk | M.A. | 2005 | Vietnamese Buddhism, American Buddhism, Modern Buddhism: Conflict in Bay Area Convert Sangha |
| (Beth) Haru Matsumune | M.B.S. | 2004 | A Comparison of Tannishō Chapter 1 and Kyōgyōshinshō Using English Translations |
| Nobuko Miyoshi | M.A. | 2004 | The Challenge of Jōdo Shinshū in America: Practicing " No Practice" |
| Jeanette Shin | M.A. | 2004 | An Analysis of Sōhei, Japan's Militant Buddhist Monks |
| Patricia A. Kanaya Usuki | M.A. | 2004 | Contemporary American Women in Jōdo Shin Buddhism: Tradition, Transition, Transmission |
| Mary Louise David | M.B.S. | 2004 | The Politics of Colonialism in Territorial Hawai'i: The Case of Bishop Yemyo Imamura and the Alien Language School Laws, 1919-1927 |
| Kanjō Asuka | M.A. | 2003 | Shinran's View on Karma |
| Scott A. Mitchell | M.A. | 2003 | Indra's Cyber Net: The Impact of the Internet on the Development of American Buddhism |
| Naomi Yukiko Nakano | M.A. | 2002 | The Light of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in the Dark Days of World War II |
| Harry Pearlton Bridge III | M.A. | 2001 | Praising the Virtuous Qualities of the True and Transformed Bodies: A Study of Hōnen's Pure Land Buddha-Body Theory |
| Catherine Adams Shaw | M.A. | 2000 | Vajrapāni in Myth and History: India, Central Asia, and Tibet |
| Kyung Hee Lee | M.A. | 1998 | The Evil Person in Jōdoshinshū: A Study of Chaper Three of Tannishō |
| Akiyo Yokota | M.A. | 1998 | A Reconsideration of Ryūkan's Life and Thought |
| Carol J. Fujimura | M.A. | 1997 | The Politics of Religious Expression: An "Inside/Outside" or "Public/Private" Interpretive Analysis of Religious Texts |
| M. Angela Andrade | M.A. | 1996 | A Study of Myōkōnin Asahara Saichi's Eshin |
| Karen M. Andrews | M.A. | 1996 | What Dākinīs Do: In Tibetan Biographical Literature |
| Ellen Rozett | M.A. | 1996 | Shentong Madhyamaka and Via Negativa, a Buddhist and Christian Approach to the Absolute: With Special Emphasis on the Teachings of the Blessed Angela of Foligno (1248/49-1309) and the Omniscient Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292-1361) |
| Shoyo Taniguchi | Ph.D | 1996 | A Systematic Structure of Ethics Found on Casual Conditionality (Paticcasamuppāda): Ethics from the Pāli Nikāya Textual Point of View |
| In Young Chung | M.A. | 1996 | A Buddhist View of Women: A Comparative Study of the Rules for Bhiksunīs and Bhiksus Bassed on the Chinese Prātimoksa |
| Maya M. Hara | M.A. | 1995 | A Sutudy and Translation of Genkū Shõnin Shi Nikki |
| Kevin Jon Guinther | M.A. | 1995 | The Hua-Yen Doctorine of Fa-Chieh Yüan-Ch'i: Interdependence and Vairocana's Tower in the Gandavyūha Sūtra |
| Lisa Grumbach | M.A. | 1995 | Dying for Your Own Good: The Kaidan Meguri of Zenkōji |
| Gary L. Ray | M.A. | 1995 | Dōgen's Concept of Enlightenment with Emphasis on Tendai Influences |
| Yun-Sup Kim | M.A. | 1995 | The Buddhist Notion of Anatta in the Pali Nikayas |
| Katherine K. Velasco | M.A. | 1993 | The Transformation of the Pure Land in the Development of Lay Buddhist Practice in China |
| Daw Yuh Shyh | M.A. | 1991 | T'ai-Hsü (1890-1947) - A Reformer in Modern Chinese Buddhism |
| Gregory G. Gibbs | M.A. | 1990 | Concepts of Faith in Three Categories, Their Applicability to the Texts of Shinran and Their Relation to Shinjin |
| Eisho Nasu | M.A. | 1990 | A Christian Critic of Buddhism in Early Modern Japan: A Study of the First Volume of the Myōtei Mondō |
| Diane Ames | M.A.B.S. | 1989 | Buddhist Social Action and Sūnyatā in the Writing of Nāgārjuna |
| Shoyo Taniguchi | M.A. | 1987 | A Study of Biomedical Ethics from a Buddhist Perspective |
| Lynn M. Olson | M.A. | 1986 | A Role of Doubt in Jodo Shinshu Buddhism |
| Lee A. Rosenthal | M.A.B.S. | 1986 | Pure Land Salvation through the Power of Amida's Vow |
| Dean Akira Koyama | M.A.B.S. | 1985 | Shinran's View on the Nature of Man and the Hongam |
| Jerry Kiyoshi Hirano | M.A.B.S. | 1984 | Rennyo Shonin (1415-1499) His Contribution to the Development to Honganji |
| J. Rebecca MacDonald | M.A.B.S. | 1983 | A Westerner's Appreciation of the Master of Gyōshin in Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism |
| Hōzan Hardiman | M.A.B.S. | 1983 | Gyō Shin: Jōdo Shinshū and Sōtō Zen A Comparative Study of Shinran and Dōgen |
| Galen D. Amstutz | M.A.B.S. | 1981 | Buddhist Compassion: Passive "Private" Meditation or Active "Social" Effort? |
| Dennis Shin Fujimoto | M.A.B.S. | 1980 | Merit Transference: The Development of the Concept of Ekō in Pure Land Buddhism |
| Marvin R. Harada | M.A.B.S. | 1980 | Two Varieties of Religious Thought and Experience: Shinran and Dōgen |
| Carol J. Himaka | M.A.B.S. | 1979 | A Critical Analysis of Salvation on Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism |
| Dennis J. Shinseki | M.A.B.S. | 1979 | Jigoku |
| Christopher J. Cyders | M.A.B.S. | 1977 | An Outline and Study of the Shoshikan by Chih-I, in Translation |
| Kodo Umezu | M.A.B.S. | 1977 | The Treatise of the Twelve Gates Translation and Introduction |
| Donald W. Castro | M.A.B.S. | 1976 | Dying and Religious Insight in Buddhism |
| Betty Mieko Osako | M.A.B.S. | | Notes on Walking or by Ship (Bu-Sen-Sho) of Zonkaku |
| Ronald Ken Kobata | M.A.B.S. | 1974 | Jodo Shinshu: Awaikening of Faith as an End, and as a Means |
| Ronald Miyamura | M.A.B.S. | 1973 | A Translation on and Research of the Ichinen Tanen Mon'i |
| Kanya Okamoto | | 1973 | Non-Reason is Reason |
| Robert Oshita | | 1973 | Illusions |
| Kenneth K. Tanaka | M.A.B.S. | 1973 | Man's Existential Unsatisfactoriness and Its Reconciliation in the Teaching of Jodo Shin Buddhism |
| Kenneth Charles O'Neill | | | The Awakening of Faith and the Topic of San Shin Is-shin in Shin Teaching |
| June A. King | | | The Myōkōnin as Examples of the True Mind of Faith |
