Robert H. Sharf

1.4k total citations
25 papers, 535 citations indexed

About

Robert H. Sharf is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Religious studies and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert H. Sharf has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 535 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 9 papers in Religious studies and 8 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Robert H. Sharf's work include Chinese history and philosophy (16 papers), Indian and Buddhist Studies (9 papers) and Japanese History and Culture (8 papers). Robert H. Sharf is often cited by papers focused on Chinese history and philosophy (16 papers), Indian and Buddhist Studies (9 papers) and Japanese History and Culture (8 papers). Robert H. Sharf collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kyrgyzstan and Japan. Robert H. Sharf's co-authors include Graham Priest, Yasuo Deguchi and Jay L. Garfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Transcultural Psychiatry, Philosophy East and West and Journal of Consciousness Studies.

In The Last Decade

Robert H. Sharf

22 papers receiving 384 citations

Peers

Robert H. Sharf
David L. McMahan United States
Johannes Bronkhorst Switzerland
Rupert Gethin United Kingdom
Ilkka Pyysiäinen Finland
Felicitas D. Goodman United States
Jeffrey J. Kripal United States
Paul Williams United Kingdom
Herbert V. Guenther Canada
Mark Siderits United States
Lauri Honko Finland
David L. McMahan United States
Robert H. Sharf
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Countries citing papers authored by Robert H. Sharf

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert H. Sharf

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Deguchi, Yasuo, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, & Robert H. Sharf. (2021). What Can't be Said. 8 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2021). The Looping Structure of Buddhist Thought (Or, How Chan Buddhism Resolves the Quantum Measurement Problem). Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 89(3). 1039–1073. 1 indexed citations
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Priest, Graham, Jay L. Garfield, Yasuo Deguchi, & Robert H. Sharf. (2021). What Can't be Said: Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought. 1 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2018). What Do Nanquan and Schrödinger Have Against Cats?. Representations. 144(1). 154–165. 1 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2017). Buddha-nature, Critical Buddhism, and Early Chan. null(22). 105–150. 1 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2017). Knowing Blue: Early Buddhist Accounts of Non-Conceptual Sense Perception. Philosophy East and West. 5 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2017). Is Mindfulness Buddhist? (And Why It Matters). Oxford University Press eBooks.
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2015). Is Yogācāra Phenomenology? Some Evidence from the Cheng weishi lun. Journal of Indian Philosophy. 44(4). 777–807. 7 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2014). Is mindfulness Buddhist? (and why it matters). Transcultural Psychiatry. 52(4). 470–484. 86 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2011). The Buddha's Finger Bones at Famensi and the Art of Chinese Esoteric Buddhism. The Art Bulletin. 93(1). 38–59. 6 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2002). ON PURE LAND BUDDHISM AND CH'AN/PURE LAND SYNCRETISM IN MEDIEVAL CHINA. T oung Pao. 88(4). 282–331. 17 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H., et al.. (2001). Living images : Japanese Buddhist icons in context. Stanford University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (2000). The rhetoric of experience and the study of religion. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 7. 25 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (1999). On the Allure of Buddhist Relics. Representations. 66(1). 75–99. 13 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (1999). On the Allure of Buddhist Relics. Representations. 66. 75–99. 19 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (1995). Sanbōkyōdan: Zen and the way of the New Religions. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. 22(3-4). 11 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H., et al.. (1993). On the Ritual Use of Ch'an Portraiture in Medieval China. Cahiers d Extrême-Asie. 7(1). 149–219. 20 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (1992). The Idolization of Enlightenment: On the Mummification of Ch'an Masters in Medieval China. History of Religions. 32(1). 1–31. 25 indexed citations
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Sharf, Robert H.. (1991). The Treasure Store Treatise (Pao-tsang lun) and the sinification of Buddhism in eighth century China.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 4 indexed citations

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