selected scholarly activity
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academic article
- Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China. By Chiew Hui Ho. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 141:677-678. 2021
- Buddhism, Bodies, Medicine, and Spellcraft. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 76:181-195. 2016
- Self-immolation, Resistance and Millenarianism in Medieval Chinese Buddhism. Medieval History Journal. 17:229-254. 2014
- Burning for the Buddha. Burning for the Buddha. 23:1-360. 2013
- Another look at the pseudo-Suramgama sutra. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 68:57-+. 2008
- Written in Flames: Self-Immolation in Sixth-Century Sichuan. T'oung Pao: international journal of Chinese studies. 92:410-465. 2006
- Where Text Meets Flesh: Burning the Body as an Apocryphal Practice in Chinese Buddhism. History of Religions. 37:295-322. 1998
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article
- Martyrdom Now 2017
- Warfare in the Context of Buddhist Statecraft in Medieval China 2017
- Dying for God, Martyrdom Across the Ages 2016
- Dreams of the Monastic Life: Buddhist Aesthetics in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Tea Culture 2016
- Spellbound: the Tale of a Buddhist monk and an Outcaste Girl in a Chinese Apocryphal Scripture 2016
- Buddhism and the Invention of Tea Culture in Medieval China 2016
- Creating a Tea Aesthetic in Tang Verse 2016
- Creating an Aesthetics of Tea in Tang Dynasty Poetry 2016
- Tea, Wellness, and Beverage Culture in Song dynasty China — Perspectives from the City and the Monastery 2016
- Buddhism and the Arts of Tea in Tang times 2016
- Creating a Tea Aesthetic in Tang Dynasty Poetry 2016
- Buddhism, Tea, and Material Culture in Premodern China 2016
- The Buddhist Arts of Tea in Medieval China 2016
- Tea and other Health Drinks in Song Dynasty China—Some Clues from the Buddhist Monastery 2016
- Seduction and Spellcraft in an Apocryphal Buddhist Scripture 2016
- Plants and Food in East Asian Buddhism 2014
- Commemoration by Commission: Buying and Selling Memory in Late Medieval China 2014
- Sex and Seduction in a Chinese Apocryphal Sutra 2014
- Tea and Other Decoctions for ‘Nourishing Life’ in Medieval China 2012
- Multiple Meanings of Buddhist Self-immolation, a Historical Perspective 2012
- Current Issues in Buddhist Studies 2012
- Problems in the Study of Later Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha 2012
- Self-immolation, Charisma, and Spectacle in Medieval Chinese Buddhism 2012
- The Religious Affiliations of Tea in Medieval China 2012
- Yin, Buddhism, and Medicine: Multiple Aspects of Tea in Eisai’s Kissa Yōjōki 2010
- Buddhist Episodes from the Prehistory of Tea in China 2010
- A Chinese apocryphal sutra in its eighth-century context 2010
- Tea as Beverage and Ritual Offering in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Monasteries 2010
- The Buddhist Arts of Tea in Medieval China 2009
- "Preparation for Death: Practice at the End of Life" and “Thinking about the Dead" 2009
- Enlivenment of Religious Images 2008
- The Influence of Buddhist Literature on Medieval Chinese Concepts of Wit and Humour 2008
- The Chinese Sources of an Apocryphal Sutra: Another Look at the Pseudo-Śūraṃgama Sūtra 2008
- ‘Do not point to any shape and call it the Dao:’ Heterodoxy and Images in Medieval China 2008
- Hybrid Cosmologies in the Śūraṃgama Sūtra 2007
- Buddhist Laymen and Tea during the Tang Dynasty 2007
- Buddhist Laymen and Tea during the Tang Dynasty 2007
- The Sense of Smell in Medieval China: Some Preliminary Remarks 2006
- Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks: Hagiographic Collection or Monastic Manifesto? 2005
- Mr. Tea versus Mr. Alcohol: Battling Commodities in Medieval China 2005
- Magic and the Military in Medieval China 2005
- Buddhist and Taoist Attitudes to Food in Medieval China 2005
- Buddhism, Alcohol, and Tea in Medieval China 2005
- One Mountain, Two Traditions: Zhongnan shan in Sui and Tang Times 2004
- Chinese Buddhist Martyrs? Some Reflections on Typologies of Self-immolation 2004
- Buddhism, Alcohol and Tea in Medieval China 2004
- Burning Buddhist Monks: Some Reflections on Self-immolation and Conflict 2003
- The Silent Saṃgha: Some Observations on Mute Sheep Monks 2003
- ‘On Drinking Tea and Nourishing Life,’ Kissa Yōjōki by the Japanese monk Eisai (1141- 1215) 2003
- The Silent Saṃgha: Some Observations on Mute Sheep Monks 2003
- Self-immolation and Peace? Some Examples from the History of Chinese Buddhism 2002
- Fire and the Sword: Some Connections between Self-immolation and Religious Persecution in the History of Chinese Buddhism 2002
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: Some Remarks on a Phenomenon in Chinese Religion 2001
- Self-cultivation and Self-immolation: Preparing the Body for Auto-cremation in Chinese Buddhism 2000
- Self-immolation, Religious Persecution and the Founding of the Tang Dynasty 1999
- Deliverance by Fire? Some Observations on Taoist Auto-cremation 1999
- Deliverance by Fire? Some Observations on Taoist Auto-cremation 1999
- Written in Flames: Self-immolation in Sixth-century Sichuan 1999
- Written in Flames: Self-immolation in Sixth-century Sichuan 1998
- The Biography of a Sixth-century Self-immolator 1998
- Is Self-Immolation a ‘Good Practice’? Yongming Yanshou’s Endorsement of Relinquishing the Body in his Wanshan Tonggui ji 1997
- Where Text Meets Flesh: Burning the Body as an ‘Apocryphal Practice’ in Chinese Buddhism 1997
- Where Text Meets Flesh: Burning the Body as an ‘Apocryphal Practice’ in Chinese Buddhism 1997
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book
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chapter
- Biographies of Eight Auto-Cremators and Huijiao’s Critical Evaluation. 543-560. 2013
- One Mountain, Two Traditions: Buddhist and Taoist Claims on Zhongnan shan in Medieval Times. Ed. Benn, James Alexander. 69-90. 2012
- The Lotus Sūtra and Self-immolation. 107-131. 2010
- Fire and the Sword: Some Connections between Self-immolation and Religious Persecution in the History of Chinese Buddhism. 234-265. 2007
- Spontaneous Human Combustion: Some Remarks on a Phenomenon in Chinese Buddhism. 101-133. 2007
- Introduction. Ed. Benn, James Alexander. 1-11. 2007
- “Self-immolation in the Context of War and Other Natural Disasters. Ed. Benn, James Alexander. 51-83. 2007
- Buddhism, Alcohol, and Tea in Medieval China. 213-236. 2005
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report
- Nouvelles. Studies in Religion. 347-347. 2007
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review
- Bokenkamp, Stephen R. A Fourth-Century Daoist Family: The “Zhen’gao,” or Declarations of the Perfected. Volume 1. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. xi+201 pp. $85.00 (cloth).. Journal of Religion. 418-420. 2022
- Diamond Sutra Narratives: Textual Production and Lay Religiosity in Medieval China.. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 677-678. 2021
- Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources. Edited by C. Pierce Salguero. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 561-563. 2018
- Buddhism in China: Collected Papers of Erik Zurcher. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 154-156. 2016
- Book Review: The Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Zen and Religion of No-Religion. Studies in Religion. 524-525. 2013
- Picturing Heaven in Early China, by Lillian Lan-ying Tseng. Canadian Journal of History. 382-383. 2013
- Domesticating the Dharma: Buddhist Cults and the Hwaôm Synthesis in Silla Korea. By Richard D. McBride II . Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Pp.xiii+228.. History of Religions. 382-384. 2012
- The Śūraṅgama Sūtra: A New Translation, with Excerpts from the Commentary - By Ven. Master Hsüan Hua. Journal of Chinese Philosophy. 673-675. 2011
- How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China. By Morten Schlütter. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008. x, 289 pp. $48.00 (cloth).. Journal of Asian Studies. 1267-1268. 2009
- Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist TemplesBy Stephen F. Teiser. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. Pp. xv+319, 14 plates. $60.00 (cloth).. History of Religions. 104-106. 2009
- An Anthology of Chinese Discourse on Translation. Volume 1: From Earliest Times to the Buddhist Project. Edited with Annotations and Commentary by Martha P. Y. Cheung. pp. xxix, 268. Manchester, St Jerome Publishing, 2006.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 132-134. 2009
- Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts'un-yan. Routledge Studies in Taoism. Edited by Benjamin Penny. pp. xiii, 290. Routledge, London and New York, 2006.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 543-545. 2008
- The Hongzhou School of Chan Buddhism in Eighth- through Tenth-Century China. By Jinhua Jia. pp. xv, 220. Albany New York, State University of New York Press, 2006.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 545-547. 2008
- The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters. By Stephen Eskildsen. pp. vii, 274. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2004.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 541-543. 2008
- Sanjiao wenxian Materiaux pour l'etude de la religion chinoise, (Revue Annuelle, NO. 4). Edited by Vincent Goossaert. pp. 182 École Practique des Hautes Études, Paris and Research School, CNWS, Leiden, 2005.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 353-354. 2007
- Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. By Eugene Y. Wang. pp. xxiv, 487, bibliography, index. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2005.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 351-353. 2007
- Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: The Buddhist Tradition Volume Five of Human Rights and the World's Major Religions. Studies in Religion. 169-170. 2007
- Text As Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahāyāna Buddhist Literature. By Alan Cole. pp. xiii, 356, bibliography, index. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 2005. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 95-97. 2007
- T'ang China: The Rise of the East in World History. By S. A. M. Adshead. pp. xvii, 233 Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave McMillan, 2004.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 332-333. 2006
- Gedenkschrift J. W. de Jong, Studia Philologica Buddhica Monograph Series XVII. Edited by H. W. Bodewitz and Minoru Hara, pp. xx, 257. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2004.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 382-383. 2005
- Philosophes Taoïstes II: Huainan zi. Texte Traduit, Présenté et Annoté Sous la Direction de Charles le Blanc et de Rémi Mathieu. pp. lxxxiii, 1182, Paris, Gallimard, 2003.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 123-125. 2005
- TANSEN SEN: Buddhism, diplomacy and trade: The Realignment of Sino-Indian Relations, 600–1400. xvi, 388 pp. Honolulu: Association for Asian Studies and University of Hawai'i Press, 2003. $55.. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). 154-156. 2005
- Chinese Magical Medicine. By Strickmann Michel. Edited by Faure Bernard. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. xii, 418 pp. $24.95 (paper).. Journal of Asian Studies. 1113-1114. 2004
- A Life Journey to the East: Sinological Studies in Memory of Giuliano Bertuccioli (1923–2001). Italian School of East Asian Studies Essays: Volume 2. Edited by Antonio Forte and Frederico Masini. pp. xxxv, 280. Kyoto, Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’ Asia Orientale, 2002.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 430-432. 2003
- A Patterned Past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography. By David Schaberg. pp. xvi, 503, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press, 2001.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 419-421. 2003
- A Religious Leader in the Tang: Chengguan's Biography. By Imre Hamar. pp. 209. Tokyo, The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2002.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 421-422. 2003
- To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth: A Translation and Study of Ge Hong's Traditions of Divine Transcendents. By Robert Ford Campany. pp. xxvii, 607. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press, 2002.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 138-140. 2003
- Evil and/or/as the Good: Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tiantai Buddhist Thought. By Brook Ziporyn. pp. viii, 482, bibliography, glossary, index. Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 2000.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 120-121. 2002
- Reading the Chuang-tzu in the T'ang Dynasty: the Commentary of Ch'eng Hsüan-ying (fl. 631–52). By Shiyu Yu. pp. xiv, 209, bibliography, index. Bern, Peter Lang, 2000.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 130-132. 2002
- State and court ritual in China. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 422-424. 2000
- The will to orthodoxy: A critical genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland. 137-139. 2000
- Immortals, Festivals and Poetry in Medieval China. By Donald Holzman. pp. xi, 344, addenda and corrigenda, index. Aldershot, Ashgate, 1998.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 458-460. 1999
- Politics and Transcendent Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism. By Charles D. Orzech. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xv, 351 pp. $55.00.. Journal of Asian Studies. 1115-1116. 1999
- Writing Against The State: Political Rhetorics in Third and Fourth Century China. By Dominik Declercq. pp. vii, 436, appendix, bibliography, index. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1998.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 460-461. 1999
- Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology; Part iii Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology and Forestry, by Christian Daniels and Nicholas K. Menzies. pp. xxvii, 740. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 341-343. 1999
- Le Sūtra d'Amida prêché par le Buddha. By Jérôme Ducor. (Schweizer Asiatische Studien Monographien, Band 29/Etudes asiatiques suisses monographies, Volume 29). pp. 215. Bern, Peter Lang, 1998.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 337-339. 1999
- Early Daoist Scriptures. By Stephen Bokenkamp, with a contribution by Peter Nickerson. pp. xvii, 502, glossary. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1997.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 198-200. 1999
- Laughing at the Tao: Debates among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China. By Livia Kohn. pp. xiii, 281, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1995. $45.00.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 500-501. 1998
- The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography. By John Kieschnick. pp. vii, 218, glossary, bibliography, index. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1997. U.S. $27.00 (paperback).. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 496-498. 1998
- The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China. By François Jullien, translated by Janet Lloyd, pp. 318, glossary. New York, Zone Books, 1995.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 498-500. 1998
- Taoism: growth of a religion. By Isabelle Robinet, translated by Phyllis Brooks, pp. xx, 296, index. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1997.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 307-309. 1998
- The Buddhist Forum vol. iv. Edited by Tadeusz Skorupski. pp. 291. London, School of Oriental and African Studies. 1996. £18.00.. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 305-307. 1998