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ALAN COLE
Assistant Professor of Chinese Buddhism
Box 41, Ph. (503) 768-7484
e-mail: cole@lclark.edu
Alan Cole specializes in the cultural history of
Buddhism in medieval China. In a forthcoming book, Mothers
and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (Stanford University Press), he
considers the role of family values in the construction of
Chinese Buddhism. Related to this study are a number of
forthcoming essays on familial and economic metaphors in
Buddhist rhetoric. He recently published an article in
History of Religions, "Upside Down/Right Side Up: A
Revisionist History of Buddhist Funerals in China," which
argues that Chan Buddhism is best described as the
innovative use of Confucian funerary rites to secure and
legitimize the reproduction of the monastic elite (HR,
vol.35, no.4, 1996).
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