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Goddesses of power.(3 books on religion and gender)(Book Review)
Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Context by David Gordon White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, 360 pp., $43.00 hardcover.
Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender by Bernard Faure. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 482 pp., $27.50 paper.
Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 356 pp., $21.95 paper.
These books present three different, though equally rich, approaches to the study of women, gender, and religion. All three also raise questions about notions of centrality and ...
- Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West Heine, Steven January 1, 2006 700+ words
...Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses. By Bernard Faure. Translated by Janet Lloyd. Stanford: Stanford University...Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses by Bernard Faure seems quite different from other publications by this author...
- The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism.(Review)...
- Philosophy East and West Dippmann, Jeffrey July 1, 1999 700+ words
...to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism. By Bernard Faure. Translated by Phyllis Brooks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. Bernard Faure has established himself as the preeminent and most creative Chan scholar...
- Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism.(Review) (book review)
- Philosophy East and West Lai, Whalen October 1, 2000 700+ words
...since the days of D. T. Suzuki and Alan Watts. Just as Bernard Faure has deconstructed "Suzuki Zen," Dale S. Wright has here...based lineage were also named Huang Po. In short, whereas Bernard Faure has dissolved the early images of Bodhidharma into a number...
- Original insights never fully present: Chan/Zen/deconstruction.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Sargent, Stuart January 1, 1996 700+ words
Like many readers who will be curious about Bernard Faure's new book, I approach it as a person with a basic knowledge of Chan/Zen Buddhism but not as a scholar of religion; I come...
- The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Sargent, Stuart January 1, 1996 700+ words
Like many readers who will be curious about Bernard Faure's new book, I approach it as a person with a basic knowledge of Chan/Zen Buddhism but not as a scholar of religion; I come...
- Julian's Way: A Practical Commentary on Julian of Norwich.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Cunningham, Lawrence S. August 13, 1993 700+ words
...Christian and Jewish mysticism (Bernard McGinn); on Buddhist and Christian texts (Ninian Smart); on Chan/Zen Buddhism (Bernard Faure); etc. Such essays are marked by a serious control of the literature and a rigorous reading of the textual tradition...
- The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society KIESCHNICK, JOHN January 1, 2001 700+ words
...translation with detailed annotation by Yanagida Seizan, in a French translation with annotation and a long introduction by Bernard Faure, and in an English translation as a Master's thesis by John Jorgenson. [1] The first four of the seven texts have also...
- Zen in Medieval Vietnam -- A Study and Translation of the Thien Uyen Tap...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Do, Thien September 1, 1999 700+ words
...time, this work exposes the partial vision which has been an intriguing legacy of state-building discourse and of what Bernard Faure terms "the will to orthodoxy". Richly annotated, it should enable readers to form a fairly comprehensive picture of the...
