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Bernard Faure

Education[edit]

Faure graduated from the Institut d’Études Politiques as well as the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris and received a Doctorat d’État from the Université de Paris-VII in 1984.^[7] He also conducted research at Kyoto University for many years.^[8]

Bibliography[edit]

Faure has written a number of books in French and English, including:

• Les Mille et Une Vies du Bouddha, Editions du Seuil (2018)
• The Fluid Pantheon, University of Hawaii Press (2015)^[9][10]
• Protectors and Predators, University of Hawaii Press (2015)^[11][12]
• Le Traité de Bodhidharma: Première Anthologie du Chan, Le Seuil (2012)
• L’imaginaire Zen: L’Univers Mental d’un Moine Bouddhiste Japonais, Les Belles Lettres (2010)
• Unmasking Buddhism, Wiley-Blackwell (2008)^[13]
• Bouddhisme et Violence, Le Cavalier Bleu (2008)^[14]
• The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity and Gender, Princeton University Press (2003)^[15][16]
• Double Exposure: Cutting against Western and Buddhist Discourses, Stanford University Press (2003)^[17][18]
• The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality, Princeton University Press (1998)^[19][20]
• The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism, Stanford University Press (1997)^[21][22]
• Chan Insights and Oversights: an Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition, Princeton University Press (1996)^[23]
• Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Princeton University Press (1996)^[24][25]
• Bouddhisme, Liana Levi (1996), translated into English, German, Dutch, and Italian
• Le Bouddhisme, Flammarion (1996)
• The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism, Princeton University Press (1994)^[26]
• La Mort Dans les Religions d’Asie, Flammarion (1994)^[27]
• Le Bouddhisme Chan en Mal d’Histoire, EFEO (1989)

He has edited or co-edited the following works:

• “The Way of Yin and Yang (Onmyōdō)," special issue of the Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (2014)
• "Japanese Buddhism and the Performing Arts (geinō)," special issue of Journal of Religion in Japan (2013)
• “Shugendō," special issue of the Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (2011)^[28]
• "Medieval Shinto," special issue of the Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (2008)
• Chinese Poetry and Prophecy by Michel Strickmann, Stanford University Press (2005)^[29]
• Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context, RoutledgeCurzon (2003)
• “Buddhist Priests, Kings, and Marginals: Studies on Medieval Japanese Buddhism," special issue of the Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie (2002-2003)
• Chinese Magical Medicine by Michel Strickmann, Stanford University Press (2002)^[30]

He has also published a large number of articles, including most recently:

• "Buddhism’s Black Holes: From Ontology to Hauntology”, International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture 27 (2) (2017)
• "Can (and Should) Neuroscience Naturalize Buddhism?”, International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture 27, 1 (2017)
• “Buddhism Ab Ovo: Aspects of Embryological Discourse in Medieval Japanese Buddhism”, in Anna Andreeva and Dominic Steavu, eds., Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Buddhism, Brill (2015).
• “Indic Influences on Chinese Mythology: King Yama and his Acolytes as Gods of Destiny” in Meir Shahar and John Kieschnick, India in the Chinese Imagination (2013)^[31]
• “The Impact of Tantrism on Japanese Religious Traditions: The Cult of the Three Devas” in Ivstan Keul, ed., Transformations and Transfer of Tantra in Asia and Beyond, Walter de Gruyter (2012)
• “A Gray Matter: Another Look at Buddhism and Neuroscience” in Tricycle (2012)^[32]
• “Buddhism and Symbolic Violence” in Andrew Murphy, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence, Blackwell (2011)^[33]
• “From Bodhidharma to Daruma: The Hidden Life of a Zen Patriarch” in Japan Review 23 (2011)^[34]
• “In the Quiet of the Monastery: Buddhist Controversies over Quietism” in Common Knowledge 16 (2010)

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