Lecture: Mysterious Women, Mythical Beasts, and Medieval Buddhism

April 15, 1999

Lecture: Mysterious Women, Mythical Beasts, and Medieval Buddhism
Prof. Bernard Faure (Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
8:00 – 9:30 PM

Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Buddhist Studies Center, Bernard Faure is one of the world’s leading scholars of Buddhism. He has won numerous awards for his books and articles. His works include: The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (1998), Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan/Zen Tradition (1993), and The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism (1991).

Co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Buddhist Studies