Kyoto University, Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS/Shishukan)

The four foundational books or manuals for our research group are:

1. Gethin, R. (1998). The Foundations of Buddhism. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
2. Hadot, P. (2002). What is Ancient Philosophy? Translated from the French by Michael Chase. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
3. Feldman, C. & Kuyken, W. (2019). Mindfulness. Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology. New York: Guilford Press.
4. Deroche, M-H. (Eds.). (2025). Study, Reflection, and Cultivation: Integrative Paths to Wisdom from Buddhist and Comparative Perspectives. Religions 13(11). ISBN: 978-3-7258-3128-9. https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-3128-9

Our recent publications include:

1. Deroche, M-H., Kuyken, W., Uwatoko, T., Imoto, Y., Kusumoto, R. (2025). The Mindful Way From Information to Knowledge, to Wisdom, and to Life: Perspectives on Mindfulness (-Based Cognitive Therapy) for Higher Education. Mindfulness 16, 846–863. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02528-5
2. Deroche, M.-H., Ikeda, T., & Kazushi, I. (Eds.). (2024). Approaching the High Plateau from the Archipelago: Tibetan Studies in Japan. Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 33.
3. Deroche, M.-H. (2024). The Rising Sun of the Great Perfection: The Japanese Reception of Dzogchen, a Philosophical and Contemplative Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 33, 55-78.
4. Deroche, M.-H. (2023). Une quête tibétaine de la sagesse: Prajñāraśmi (1518-1584) et l’attitude impartiale (ris med). Brepols Publishers.
5. Deroche, M.-H, and Michael R. Sheehy. (2022). "The Distinctive Mindfulness of Dzogchen: Jigme Lingpa’s Advice on Meta-Awareness and Nondual Meditation" Religions 13, no. 7: 573. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070573
6. Jannel, Romaric. (2022). "Xuanzang and the Three Types of Wisdom: Learning, Reasoning, and Cultivating in Yogācāra Thought" Religions 13, no. 6: 486. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13060486
7. Kusumoto, Ryotaro. (2022). "Sources of Japanese Buddhist Philosophy of Education: Saichō (最澄, 766/7–822) on Study, Reflection, and Cultivation" Religions 13, no. 7: 624. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13070624
8. Gnon-na, Lobsang Tshultrim. (2022). "Theory and Practice of Tranquil Abiding Meditation in Tibet: The Pith Instructions of Yeshe Gyaltsen (1713–1793) and His Predecessors" Religions 13, no. 11: 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111057
9. Nomura, Masaki. (2022). "Zen Philosophy of Mindfulness: Nen 念 according to Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō" Religions 13, no. 9: 775. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090775
10. Deroche, M.-H. (2022). Ethos of the Great Perfection: Continual Mindfulness According to Patrul's Foundational Manual. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 29, pp. 177-204.
11. Deroche, M.-H. (2021). Living Mindfully Through Crisis: Searching for Life Advice in the "Philosophy-Medicine" of Buddhism. Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 5(1), pp. 50-69. DOI: 10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0004
12. Deroche, M.-H. (2021). Mindful Wisdom: The Path Integrating Memory, Judgment, and Attention. Asian Philosophy, 31(1), pp. 19-32. DOI: 10.1080/09552367.2021.1875610
13. Deroche, M.-H. (2021). The Conversion of Attention: Mindfulness in Classical Dzogchen. Philosophy East and West, 71(4), pp. 872-876. DOI:10.1353/pew.2021.0060.
14. Deroche, M.-H. (2021). (Translated in Japanese from English by Masatake Shinohara)「生き方としての哲学――「聞・思・修」の意義と可能性」In 池田裕一［編］『実践する総合生存学』京都大学学術出版会、pp. 207-234.

Collective book project: Special Issue of the peer-reviewed journal Religions

Book with Preface:

Marc-Henri Deroche was interviewed in a television program "Sagesses Bouddhistes" on the French national television (France Télévisions) under the title “Les exercices de la sagesse : étude, réflexion, méditation (The exercises of wisdom: study, reflection, meditation)"