Bernard Faure

Bernard Faure is Kao Professor in Japanese Religion at Columbia University and the author of several books on Buddhism, including The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism and The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender. He is currently working on a book on Japanese gods and demons.

Magazine History & Philosophy

The Myth of the Historical Buddha

Is Shakyamuni more fiction than fact?

By Bernard Faure

Spring 2016

Magazine Arts & Culture

A Gray Matter

Another look at Buddhism and neuroscience

By Bernard Faure

Winter 2012

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