Thomas Crowell-Taylor "Tim" Buckley (May 28, 1942 – April 16, 2015)[1] was an American anthropologist and Buddhist monastic best known for his long-term ethnographic research with the Yurok Indians of northern California,[2] his early work in the anthropology of reproduction, including menstruation and culture[3] and for his major reevaluation of the work of Alfred L.
His decades-long fieldwork with the Yuroks, beginning in 1976 (following upon Buddhist training in California under Shunryu Suzuki, 1965–71), culminated in his ethnographic monograph Standing Ground, published in 2002.
(For this publication he had an honorable mention in the Victor Turner Prize award by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.)
Buckley taught anthropology and American Indian studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, for many years and at other institutions as a visiting professor.
Peter Schneider at Beginner's Mind Zen Center in Northridge, California, and established a lay community group, Great River Zendo, in midcoast Maine.