Faure, Bernard

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Faure, Bernard
Other forms of name
Faure, Bernard, 1948-
Date of birth
1948-06-26
Field of activity
Buddhism
East Asia
Japan
Occupation
College teachers
Associated Language
engfre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 112312524
Wikidata: Q2897888
Library of congress: n 89614290
Sources of Information
  • Bernard R. Faure, Kao Professor Emeritus of Japanese Religions and Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Cultures ; [email protected] ; PhD, Paris University, 1984 ( (Columbia University, Department of Religion web site, January 8, 2024:) )
  • Gods of medieval Japan, 2015:ECIP title page (Bernard Faure) ECIP data (Ph.D. (Doctorat d'Etat) from Paris University; has taught at Cornell University and Stanford University and is presently Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University; interested in various aspects of East Asian Buddhism, with an emphasis on Chan/Zen and Tantric or esoteric Buddhism; work has focused on topics such as the construction of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the Buddhist cult of relics, iconography, sexuality, and gender; has published a number of books in French and English. The Fluid Pantheon is the first in a planned four-volume work that explores the mythico-ritual system of esoteric Buddhism and its relationships with medieval Japanese religion)
  • His La volonté d'orthodoxie dans le bouddhisme chinois, 1988:t.p. (Bernard Faure)
  • His The rhetoric of immediacy, 1991:CIP t.p. (Bernard Faure) ackn. (Palo Alto) data sheet (b. 06-26-48)
  • LCN: B. 1948