Roger Corless made significant contributions to interfaith dialogue, particularly on the subject Buddhist-Christian dual belonging ("co-inherent consciousness").

He was Professor of Religion at Duke University

Duke University

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, and held visiting positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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, Stanford University

Stanford University

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, Chaminade University of Honolulu

Chaminade University of Honolulu

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, California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies

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, University of California-Berkeley, and the Institute of Buddhist Studies

Institute of Buddhist Studies

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Biographical brief

Roger Corless studied at King's College London

King's College London

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 (B.D., 1961) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison

University of Wisconsin–Madison

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 (Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, 1973). His special interests were Pure Land Buddhism

Pure Land Buddhism

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, Christian Spirituality

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, and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue.

He was a co-founder of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies and its journal Buddhist-Christian Studies

Buddhist-Christian Studies

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(University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii

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 Press).

He published four books, including The Vision of Buddhism, and more than sixty scholarly articles.

Selected bibliography

Books

• The Art of Christian Alchemy: Transfiguring the Ordinary through Holistic Meditation. Paulist Press, 1981.
• I am Food: The Mass in Planetary Perspective. Wipf and Stock, 2004. Originally published by Crossroad, 1981.
• The Vision of Buddhism: The Space under the Tree. Paragon House, 1989.
• Buddhist Emptiness and Christian Trinity: Essays and Explorations. ed. with Paul F. Knitter
  Paul F. Knitter
  Paul F. Knitter is the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. He was formerly Emeritus Professor of Theology at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Since publishing his acclaimed book, No Other Name? , Knitter has...
  
  . Paulist Press, 1990. (Contains his article “Can Emptiness Will?”)
• Where do we Go from Here? The Many Religions and the Next Step. Draft completed, publisher being sought.

Articles

• “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 Form for Buddhist-Christian Co-Inherence Meditation” and “A Reply to the Responses”. Buddhist-Christian Studies 14 (1994), 139–144 and 181–184 (part of the forum on Joint Practice, pages 137–196).
• “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.

External links

• "On Becoming a Dialogian" An essay by Roger Corless.
• The Corless A nonprofit formed out of Roger Corless's estate. Many of Roger's papers, some unpublished, are in their archives.
• Profiles in Buddhist-Christian Dialogue An interview with Roger Corless.