Prof. Dr. Mario Poceski

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Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen

Home Institution: Department of Religion, University of Florida


IKGF Visiting Fellow January 2019 – December 2019

IKGF Research Project:

Premonitions and Predictions of Future Events in the Chan Tradition of Chinese Buddhism


Curriculum Vitae

Mario Poceski is a professor of Buddhist studies and Chinese religions at the University of Florida. He received a PhD in East Asian Languages and Cultures, with specialization in Buddhist studies, from the University of California, Los Angeles (2000). A specialist in Chan (Zen) and the history of Buddhism in China, his publications also cover many other topics. He has spent extended periods as a visiting professor/scholar at Komazawa University (Japan), Stanford University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Hamburg (Germany), and Fudan University (China), and has received several prestigious fellowships, including Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship. Poceski's numerous publications include Communities of Memory and Interpretation: Reimagining and Reinventing the Past in East Asian Buddhism (Hamburg 2018, ed.), The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature (Oxford 2015), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism (Blackwell 2014, ed.), Introducing Chinese Religions (Routledge 2009), and Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism (Oxford 2007).

Selected Publications

Books

2015 The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
2009 Introducing Chinese Religions. New York and London: Routledge. [Also available in an e-book format, as Chinese Religions: The eBook (published by JBE Online Books), and in a Portuguese translation: Introdução às religiões chinesas, published by Fundação Editora da UNESP, Brazil, 2013.]
2007 Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
1993 Manifestation of the Tathāgata: Buddhahood According to the Avatamsaka Sūtra. Boston: Wisdom Publications (published under the name Cheng Chien Bhikshu). [Also published in a German translation, as Alles ist reiner Geist; Giovanni Bandini, trans. Bern and München: Alfred Scherz Verlag, 1997.]
1993 Sun-Face Buddha: The Teachings of Ma-tsu and the Hung-chou School of Ch'an. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1993, 2001 (published under the name Cheng Chien Bhikshu). [Also published in a Polish translation, as Budda o słonecznym obliczu: Nauczanie Mistrza Zen Ma-tsu oraz szkoły Ch'an Hung-chou; Robert Bączyk, trans. Warszawa: Miska Ryżu, 2004.]

Books edited

2018 Communities of Memory and Interpretation: Reimagining and Reinventing the Past in East Asian Buddhism (Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series 10). Bochum: Projektverlag.
2014 The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism. The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Articles

2018 "Bo Juyi's Memorial Inscription for Chan Teacher Weikuan", in: Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 31, pp. 39-74.
2017 "Evolving Relationship between the Buddhist Monastic Order and the Imperial States of Medieval China", in: Medieval Worlds 6, pp. 40-60.
2016 "Buddha and Confucius as Humanists [Hümanist Olarak Buda ve Konfüçyüs]", in: Sabah Ülkesi 46, pp.42-45 [Turkish translation].
2015 "Conceptions and Attitudes towards Contemplative Practice within the Early Traditions of Chan Buddhism", in: Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies 28, pp. 67-116.
2007 "Lay Models of Engagement with Chan Teachings and Practices among the Literati in Mid-Tang China", in: Journal of Chinese Religions 35, 63-97.
2006 "The Expanding Presence of Buddhist Studies on the Internet", in: Religious Studies Review 32/4, pp. 223-226.
2003 "Xuefeng's Code and the Chan School's Participation in the Development of Monastic Regulations", in: Asia Major, Third Series 16/2, pp. 33-56.
2001 "Mazu Daoyi (709–788) and Chan in Sichuan", in: Komazawa daigaku zen kenkyūjo nenpō 12, pp. 1-26.

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