Education - B.A. Religion. Carleton College, Northfield, MN. 1972
- M.A. Columbia University, New York; 1976, M.Phil. 1974
- Ph.D. Columbia University. 1983
Research & Teaching Fields - Sanskrit,
Pali, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, religious studies
Selected Publications - “From
Category to Ontology: the Evolution of Dharma in
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma.” Journal
of Indian Philosophy. (forthcoming)
- “Arguments on Existence in the Mahāvibhāṣā.” with
Hiromichi Takeda. In Festschrift
Volume for Ronald Nakasone.
(forthcoming)
- “Kaśmīra: Vaibhāṣika
Orthodoxy.” Chapter
3 in Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism,
for Handbuch der Orientalistik by Charles Willemen,
Bart Dessein, and Collett Cox. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
1997.
- “Whether Buddhas Arise or Do Not Arise:
the Variant or Invariant Nature of Dependent Origination
(pratītyasamutpāda).” In
Felicitation Volume for Professor
Junshō Katō,
edited by Toshihiro Wada, 580-564. Tokyo: Shunjusha.
2000.
- Disputed Dharmas: Early
Buddhist Theories on Existence. An Annotated
Translation of the Section on Factors Dissociated
from Thought from Saṅghabhadra’s
Nyāyānusāra.
Studia Philologica Buddhica: Monograph Series,
11. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist
Studies. 1995.
- “Attainment through Abandonment:
The Sarvāstivādin
Path of Removing Defilements.” In Paths
to Liberation: The Mārga and its Transformations
in Buddhist Thought, edited by Robert Buswell and
Robert Gimello, 63-105. Studies in East Asian Buddhism
7. Honolulu: Kuroda Institute, University of Hawaii
Press. 1992.
Current Research Projects - edition,
translation, and study of a Gandharan Abhidharma
Buddhist manuscript fragment as part of the Early
Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
| | Courses Taught - Asian
585 Seminar in Buddhist Studies
- Indian 401-2 Pali
- Sanskrit 301-3 First-year Sanskrit
- Sanskrit 401-3
Second-year Sanskrit
- Sanskrit 411-3 Third-year
Sanskrit
- Sanskrit 495 Sanskrit readings in Philosophical
Literature
- Sanskrit 581, 582 Sanskrit readings
in Buddhist Texts
- Religion 202 Asian Religions
- Religion 354 Introduction
to Buddhism
- Religion
501 Methods of the Study of Religion
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