Education
- BA Religion. Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 1972.
- MA Religion. Columbia University, 1974.
- MPhil Religion. Columbia University, 1976.
- PhD Religion. Columbia University, 1983.
Research & Teaching Fields - Sanskrit,
Pali, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, religious studies
Selected Publications - With
Hiromichi Takeda. “Arguments on Existence in the Mahāvibhāsā.” In Festschrift
Volume for Ronald Nakasone (2010)
- “From
Category to Ontology: the Evolution of Dharma in
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma.” Journal
of Indian Philosophy 32, 5-6(2004): 543-597.
Also published in Patrick Olivelle, ed. Dharma: studies in its Semantic, Cultural, and Religious History. Delhi: motilal Banarsidass (2009): 90-121.
- “Kaśmīra: Vaibhāsika
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,
ed. 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, ed. Robert Buswell and
Robert Gimello. Studies in East Asian Buddhism
7. Honolulu: Kuroda Institute, University of Hawaii
Press, 1992, 63-105.
Current Research Projects - An edition with
translation and study of a Gandharan Abhidharma
Buddhist manuscript fragment as part of the Early
Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
| | Courses Taught - ASIAN
411 Buddhist Literature
- ASIAN 585 Seminar in Buddhist Studies
- INDN 401-402 Pali
- SNKRT 301-302-303 First-year Sanskrit
- SNKRT 401-402-403
Second-year Sanskrit
- SNKRT 411-412-413 Third-year
Sanskrit
- SNKRT 495 Sanskrit readings in Philosophical
Literature
- SNKRT 581, 582 Sanskrit readings
in Buddhist Texts
- RELIG 202 Asian Religions
- RELIG 354 Introduction
to Buddhism
- RELIG
501 Methods of the Study of Religion
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