Writing

In the following pages, I give links for books, articles, essays, and blog posts that I have written.

 

I see myself as coming into the fourth phase of my intellectual life. Initally, my academic work was philologically oriented, concentrating on Sanskrit and Tibetan sources. I focused on various aspects of medieval Indian Buddhist literature related primarily to ritual. My first book and earliest articles reflect these interests.

 

In my second phase, I studied and translated from the ancient Indian Buddhist canon as preserved in Pali. My last three books reflect this approach.

 

In my third phase, I expanded my interest to include the interface between ancient Buddhist literature and practice and modern psychology. These expanded interests reflect my new teaching position, which combines the training of professionals (psychologists, physicians, social workers, and so on) in meditation practice and theory with continued scholarly research.

 

Finally, my current interest draws from all of my previous work. I am now working on critical models for understanding the nature of Buddhism's structural rhetoric and how that structure is manifesting in contemporary western forms of Buddhism. "Nascent Speculative Non-Buddhism," my most recemt article, is an example.