Cole, A.

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Alan
LastName / namelast	Cole
MainNamePhon	Alan Cole
bio	Alan Cole received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from the University of Michigan in 1994. He then taught mainly at Lewis & Clark College (1994-2013). He retired early, in 2013, in order to spend more time writing, and in the hope of regaining a sense of freedom that academia had, slowly but surely, eaten into. This choice seems to have been fruitful since he recently published two new books -- Fetishizing Tradition: Desire and Reinvention in Buddhist and Christian Narratives (SUNY, 2015), and Patriarchs on Paper: A Critical History of Medieval Chan Literature (UCal Press, 2016) -- both of which lay out new and creative ways to think about old problems in Buddhism and Christianity. (Source Accessed June 5, 2019)
phduniversity	University of Michigan
education	Ph.D. Buddhist Studies
IsInGyatsa	No
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