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"Immigrant Gods on the Road to Jindō." In Rethinking Medieval Shintō / Repenser le shintō médiéval. Michael Como, Bernard Faure, and Iyanaga Nobumi, eds. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 16, 2010.
Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan. University of Hawai'i Press, 2008.
Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2008.
"Of Temples, Horses, and Tombs: Hōryūji and Chūgūji in Heian and Early Kamakura Japan." In Hōryūji Reconsidered, ed. Dorothy Wong, 263–288. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
"Horses, Dragons and Disease in Nara Japan." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34.2 (2007): 393–415.
"Silkworms and Consorts in Nara Japan." Asian Folklore Studies 64 (2005): 111-131.
"Ethnicity, Sagehood and the Politics of Literacy in Asuka Japan." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 30 (2003): 61-84.
Professor Como is currently working on a new monograph tentatively entitled Resonant Bodies: Disease and Astrology in the Heian Cultic Revolution.Monographs in English
Unmasking Buddhism. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses. Stanford University Press, 2004.
The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender. Princeton University Press, 2003.
The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality. Princeton University Press, 1998.
The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism, trans. Phyllis Brooks. Stanford University Press, 1997.
Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism. trans. Phyllis Brooks. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition. Princeton University Press, 1993.
The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism. Princeton University Press, 1991.
Monographs in French (incomplete listing)
Bouddhisme et violence. Le Cavalier Bleu, 2008.
Le bouddhisme Ch'an en mal d'histoire: genèse d'une tradition religieuse. l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, 2005.
Sexualités bouddhiques: Entre désirs et réalités. Collection Champs Flammarion, 2005.
Le Bouddhisme. Le Cavalier Bleu, 2004.
Bouddhismes, philosophies et religions. Champs Flammarion Sciences, 2000.
Le Traité de bodhidharma: première anthologie du bouddhisme Chan, traduit et commenté par Bernard Faure, rééddition Points Sagesse, Le Seuil, [1986] 2000.
Sexualités bouddhiques. Le Mail, 1994.
La volonte d'orthodoxie dans le bouddhisme chinois. Presses du CNRS, 1988.
La vision immédiate: nature, éveil et tradition selon le Shōbōgenzō, traduit et commenté par Bernard Faure. Le Mail, 1987.
Edited Works
Rethinking Medieval Shintō / Repenser le shintō médiéval. Bernard Faure, Michael Como, and Iyanaga Nobumi, eds. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 16, 2010.
Michel Strickmann. Chinese Poetry and Prophecy: The Written Oracle in East Asia, ed. Bernard Faure. Stanford University Press, 2005.
Chan Buddhism in Ritual Context. Routledge, 2003.
Michel Strickmann. Chinese Magical Medicine, ed. Bernard Faure. Stanford University Press, 2002.
Articles and book chapters (incomplete listing)
"Ch'an Master Musang: A Korean Monk in East Asian Context." In Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions, ed. Robert E. Buswell, Jr., 153–172. University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
"Une perle rare : la "nonne" Nyoi et l'idéologie médiévale." In Moines, rois et marginaux: Etudes sur le bouddhisme médiéval japonais/ Buddhist Priests, Kings and Marginals : Studies on Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 13, 2002–2003.
"Du kôan au mantra: Les rapports du Zen et du bouddhisme tantrique". Connaissance des Religions, 2000.
"The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze." Critical Inquiry 24.3 (1998): 768–813.
"The Daruma-shū, Dōgen and Sōtō Zen." Monumenta Nipponica 42.1 (1987): 25–55.
"Space and Place in Chinese Religious Traditions." History of Religions 26.4 (1987): 337–356.
"Bodhidharma as Textual and Religious Paradigm." History of Religions 25.3 (1986): 187–198.
"Le symbolisme de l’objet rituel", L’Université Bouddhique Européenne.
"Kegon and Dragons: A Mythological Approach to Huayan Doctrine"
"The Patriarch Who Came from the West: Daruma, Smallpox and the color Red – The Double Life of a Patriarch."
Professor Faure is presently working on a book on Japanese gods and demons.
Geographies of the Imagination: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map. Harvard University Asia Center, under contract.
"The Life of the Death of the Buddha: The Parivirvana in Japanese Iconography." In The Life of the Buddha: New Directions in Research, P. Granoff and S. Quintanilla, eds. University of British Columbia Press, in press.
“Japanese Buddhism." In The Columbia Companion to Asian Religions, ed. Robert A. F. Thurman. Columbia University Press, in press.
"Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 36.2 (2009): 351–380.
"Dying Like the Buddha: Intervisuality and the Cultic Image.” Impressions 28 (2007–2008): 25–57.
"The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion." In Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan. Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens, eds., 337–370. University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
"Passage to Fudaraku: Suicide and Salvation in Premodern Japanese Buddhism." In The Buddhist Dead: Practices, Discourses, Representations, ed. Jacqueline I. Stone, 340–374. University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.
Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. Harvard East Asian Center, 2005. (PDF Table of Contents)
"The Ideology of Landscape and the Theater of State: Insei Pilgrimage to Kumano (1090–1220)." Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 23.3–4 (1997): 347–374.
