Books by M. Poceski

Sections from the books listed below are available at Academia.edu; see https://florida.academia.edu/MarioPoceskiOxford2015

Single-authored Books

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.[1]

Introducing Chinese Religions. New York and London: Routledge, 2009. 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.[2]

Ordinary Mind as the Way: The Hongzhou School and the Growth of Chan Buddhism. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.[3]

Manifestation of the Tathāgata: Buddhahood According to the Avatamsaka Sūtra. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1993 (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.

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 BlackwellCompanionCheng 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.

Edited Books

Communities of Memory and Interpretation: Reimagining and Reinventing the Past in East Asian Buddhism. Hamburg Buddhist Studies Series 8. Hamburg: Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg, 2018.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism. The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

[1] For reviews, see (1) Pei-Ying Lin, Journal of Chinese Religions 44/2 (2016), pp. 197-99; (2) Morten Schlūtter, Studies in Chinese Religions 2/1 (2016), pp. 86-88; Yuemin He, Religion and the Arts 20/3 (2016), pp. 385-87.

[2] The book has been used in courses at many colleges and universities around the world. In the US, that includes Columbia, UCLA, Stanford, Arizona, Florida, Johns Hopkins, Penn State, Rutgers, Vermont, Pittsburg, Pomona, and Washington (St Louis); abroad, it includes Winnipeg, Western Ontario, Heidelberg, Charles (Prague), Münster, Potsdam, Sichuan, Seoul National, and Mid Sweden. For a review, see Religious Studies Review 36/3 (2010): 245.

[3] For reviews, see (1) Jinhua Jia, Philosophy East and West 59/1 (2009), pp. 118–121; (2) Jeffrey Broughton, Journal of Chinese Religions 35 (2007), pp. 187­-88; (3) Juhn Y. Ahn,  Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (2009), pp.  269–271; and (4) John McRae, China Review International 15/2 (2008), pp. 170–184.