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 List of Publications

Books:

1.     A Classical Tibetan Reader: Selected Short Stories with Custom Glossaries, June 2013, 200p, Wisdom Publications, Boston.

2.     The Essence of the Ocean of Attainments: Explanation of the Creation Stage of the Guhyasamāja, King of All Tantras, by the First Panchen Rinpoche, Blo-bzang-chos-kyi-rgyal-mtshan, translated with Penpa Dorjee, forthcoming, 2013, 300p, The American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York with Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, New York.

3.    Dan Martin in collaboration with Yael Bentor, Tibetan Histories: A Bibliography of Tibetan-Language Historical Works, 1997, 295p, Serindia Publications, London.

4.     Consecration of Images and Stūpas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, 1996, 415p, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

 
 
Articles:

1.     "Meditation on Emptiness in the Context of Tantric Buddhism." The Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, Guest Editor, Kevin Vose, forthcoming, summer 2013.

2.     "Tsong-kha-pa's Guhyasamāja Sādhana and the Ārya Tradition." In Śāsanadhara: Papers in Honor of Robert A. F. Thurman on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday, eds., Christian K. Wedemeyer, John D. Dunne, and Thomas F. Yarnall, The American Institute of Buddhist Studies at Columbia University in New York with Columbia University's Center for Buddhist Studies and Tibet House US, forthcoming, 2013.

3.    "The Convergence of Theoretical and Practical Concerns in a Single Verse of the Guhyasamāja Tantra." In Tibetan Rituals, ed., José Cabezón, 2009, pp. 89–102, Oxford University Press, New York.

4.     "Do 'The Tantras Embody What The Practitioners Actually Do'?" In Contributions to Tibetan Buddhist Literature, ed., Orna Almogi, 2009, pp. 351–373, International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Beiträge zur Zentralasienforschung 14, Halle.

5.     "Can Women Attain Enlightenment through Vajrayāna Practices?" In Karmic Passages: Israeli Scholarship on India, eds,. David Shulman and Shalva Weil, 2008, pp. 123–137, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

6.    "Identifying the Unnamed Opponents of Tsong-kha-pa and Mkhas-grub-rje Concerning the Transformation of Ordinary Birth, Death and the Intermediate State into the Three Bodies." In Tibetan Buddhist Literature and Praxis: Studies in Its Formative Period 900–1400, eds., Ronald M. Davidson and Christian K. Wedemeyer, 2006, pp. 185–200, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

7.     "Transforming Death into Buddhahood." In Buddhist Scriptures, ed., Donald S. Lopez, 2004, pp. 430–438, Penguin Books, London.

8.     "The Consecration of a Buddha Image." In Buddhist Scriptures, ed., Donald S. Lopez, 2004, pp. 200–211, Penguin Books, London.

9.    "The Content of Stūpas and Images and the Indo-Tibetan Concept of Relics." The Tibet Journal, 28.1&2, pp. 21–48, 2003.

10. "Fourfold Meditations: Outer, Inner, Secret and Suchness." In Religion and Secular Culture in Tibet: Tibetan Studies II, ed., Henk Blezer, 2002, pp. 41–55, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

11.  "The Practice of the Mantric Path by Lce-sgom-pa." In Tantra in Practice, ed., David Gordon White, 2000, pp. 326–346, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

12.  "Interiorized Fire Rituals in India and in Tibet." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 120.4, pp. 594–613, 2000.

13. "Interiorized Fire Offerings of Breathing, Inner Heat and the Subtle Body." In Tibetan Studies, eds., Helmut Krasser, Michael T. Much, Ernst Steinkellner and Helmut Tauscher, 1997, vol. 1, pp. 51–58, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Institut für Kultur und Geistesgeschichte Asiens, Wien.

14.  "The Horseback Consecration Ritual." In Religions in Tibet in Practice, ed., Donald Lopez, 1997, pp. 234–254, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

15.  "Literature on Consecration (rab-gnas)." In Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre, eds., Roger Jackson and José I. Cabezón, 1996, pp. 290–311, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca.

16. "On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan Practice of Depositing Relics and Dhāraṇīs in Stūpas and Images." Journal of the American Oriental Society, 115.2, pp. 248–261, 1995.

17.  "In Praise of Stūpas: The Tibetan Eulogy at Chü-yung-kuan Reconsidered." Indo-Iranian Journal, 38, pp. 31–54, 1995.

18.  "On the Symbolism of the Mirror in Indo-Tibetan Consecration Rituals." Journal of Indian Philosophy, 23, pp. 57–71, 1995.

19. "Inside Tibetan Images." Arts of Asia, 24.3, pp. 102–109, 1994.

20. "Tibetan Classifications of Relics." In Tibetan Studies, ed., Per Kvaerne, 1994, vol. 1, pp. 16–30, The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Oslo.

21.  "Downpour of Virtue and Goodness: The Consecration Ritual Based on the Dge-legs Char-'bebs Composed by the First Panchen Lama." In A Turning of the Wheel, 1993, pp. 18–24, Tibet House, New Delhi.

22.  "Tibetan Tourist Thangkas in the Kathmandu Valley." Annals of Tourism Research, 20.1, pp. 107–137, 1993.

23. "Sūtra-style Consecration in Tibet and Its Importance for Understanding the Historical Development of the Indo-Tibetan Consecration Ritual for Stūpas and Images," Tibetan Studies, eds., Ihara Shôren and Yamagucchi Zuihô, 1992, pp. 1–12, Naritasan Shinshoji, Narita.

24.  "The Redactions of the Adbhutadharmaparyāya from Gilgit," The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 11, pp. 21–52, 1988.