Roger Corless

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Roger Jonathan Corless , his Dharma name Lhundup Tashi (born June 26, 1938 in Merseyside , United Kingdom , † January 12, 2007 in San Francisco , California ) was a Catholic professor of religious studies at Duke University . He has also held various visiting professorships at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Stanford University , Chaminade University in Honolulu , the California Institute of Integral Studies , the University of California, Berkeley and the Institute of Buddhist Studies .

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Even before Corless began studying theology, he was enrolled in a university degree in veterinary science at the Royal Veterinary College (RCV) in London . Roger Corless initially studied at King's College in London and successfully completed his studies in 1961 with a Bachelor of Divinity B.D. And then at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to do a doctorate ( Ph.D. ). His particular interests were in Amitabha Buddhism , Christian spirituality and Buddhist-Christian dialogue.

After he came to the United States in 1964, he was baptized and accepted into the Roman Catholic Church. He moved the center of his life to the United States of America because Corless could not find a university in Great Britain to study Buddhism . In 1973 he received his PhD in Buddhist studies in a program at the University of Wisconsin. After that, he changed faculties and went to the Department of Religion at Duke University.

In 1980 Roger Corless withdrew under the guidance of Geshela Lhundup Sopaals (1923-2014) in a Retreat as Gelugpa -Buddhist back after he had received the permission of his Catholic spiritual director.

Corless co-founded the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and its journal, Buddhist-Christian Studies (published by the University of Hawaii Press). He has published a number of papers including The Vision of Buddhism and more than sixty scientific articles. He also dealt with questions of queer theology .

Roger Corless died as a result of a malignant disease .

Publications (selection)

  • The Art of Christian Alchemy: Transfiguring the Ordinary through Holistic Meditation. Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ 1981.
  • I am Food: The Mass in Planetary Perspective. Wipf and Stock, 2004, first at Crossroad, 1981.
  • The Vision of Buddhism: The Space under the Tree. Paragon House, 1989.
  • Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity: Essays and Explorations. together with Paul F. Knitter , Paulist Press, Mahwah, NJ 1990.
  • An Essay on the Place of the Text in Buddhist and Christian Formation. Studies in Formative Spirituality XIV: 1 (February 1993), 31–40.
  • The Coming of the Dialogian: A Transpersonal Approach to Interreligious Dialogue. Dialogue and Alliance: A Journal of the International Religious Foundation 7: 2 (Fall / Winter 1993), 3-17.
  • A Buddhist Understanding of HIV / AIDS. Religion in the Age of AIDS: Strategy and Theology from the AIDS & Religion in America Convention (San Francisco: Public Media Center; Washington DC: AIDS National Interfaith Network, 1999), pages 59–63.
  • Towards a Queer Dharmology of Sex. Culture and Religion 5: 2 (July 2004), 229–243 ( [5] on gaybuddhist.org)
  • Many Selves, Many Realities: The Implications of Heteronymy and the Plurality of Worlds Theory for Multiple Religious Belonging. October 6, 2002 ( [6] on pcts.org)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official website of the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley [1]
  2. ↑ Dr. Roger Corless, LGBTQ Religious Archives Network, April, 2008 [2]
  3. ↑ Deer Park Buddhist Center and Monastery [3]
  4. ↑ In Memoriam: Roger Jonathan Corless (1938–2007) Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 27, 2007, p. 152–153 ( [4] on muse.jhu.edu)
personal data
SURNAME Corless, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corless, Roger Jonathan (full name); Lhundup Tashi (Dharma name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British religious studies scholar, university teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseyside , UK
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2007
Place of death San Francisco