Publications

Books

2010. Nāmapada: A Guide to Names in the Triratna Buddhist Order. Visible Mantra Press.

2010. Pilgrimage Diary: Record of a Pilgrimage Through Buddhist India. Visible Mantra Press.

2011. Visible Mantra: Visualising and Writing Buddhist Mantras. Visible Mantra Books.

2013. Talking to the Kālāmas: The Kesaputta Sutta (AN 3.65). Translation and Commentary. Visible Mantra Press.

2018. Karma and Rebirth Reconsidered: An Inquiry into the Buddhist Myths of a Just World and an Afterlife. Visible Mantra Press.

2021. The Concept of Niyāma in Buddhism. Visible Mantra Press. £8.99.

forthcoming

Beyond the Myth of the Heart Sutra: A Revisionist History, Text, and Interpretation.[working title]


Peer-reviewed Articles

2004. "Suicide as a response to suffering." Western Buddhist Review, 4. http://www.westernbuddhistreview.com/vol4/suicide_as_a_response_to_suffering.html

2010. "Did King Ajātasattu Confess to the Buddha, and did the Buddha Forgive Him?" Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 15, 279-307. http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/files/2010/05/attwood-article.pdf

2010. "The Hundred Syllable Vajrasattva Mantra." Western Buddhist Review, 5, 1-13.

2012. "Facing Death without a Soul: A Response to George Adams." Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 47, no.2 (Spring). http://journal.jesdialogue.org/

2012. "Possible Iranian Origins for Sākyas and Aspects of Buddhism." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 3, 47-69. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/26

2013. "Translation Strategies for the Cūḷa-Māluṅkya Sutta and its Chinese Counterparts." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 5, 42-63. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/54/86

2013. "The Spiral Path or Lokuttara Paṭiccasamuppāda." Western Buddhist Review,6, 1–34. http://www.jayarava.org/texts/the-spiral-path.pdf

2014. "Escaping the Inescapable: Changes in Buddhist Karma." Journal of Buddhist Ethics,21,503-535.http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/2014/06/04/changes-in-buddhist-karma

2015. Heart Murmurs: Some Problems with Conze’s Prajñāpāramitāhṛdaya. Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 8, 28-48. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/104

2017. "Form is (Not) Emptiness: The Enigma at the Heart of the Heart Sutra." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 13,52–80. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/issue/view/15/showToc.

2017. "‘Epithets of the Mantra’ in the Heart Sutra." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies,12, 26–57. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/155

2018. "A Note on Niṣṭhānirvāṇa in the Heart Sutra." Journal of the Oxford Centre For Buddhist Studies, 14, 10-17. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/173

2018. "Defining Vedanā: Through the Looking Glass." Contemporary Buddhism, 18 no. 3, 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2018.1450959

2018. "The Buddhas of the Three Times and the Chinese Origins of the Heart Sutra." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies,15, 9-27. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/184

2019. "Xuanzang’s Relationship to the Heart Sūtra in Light of the Fangshan Stele." Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies, 32, 1–30. https://chinesebuddhiststudies.org/article/xuanzangs-relationship-to-the-heart-sutra-in-light-of-the-fangshan-stele/

2020. "Ungarbling Section VI of the Sanskrit Heart Sutra." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 18, 11-41. https://www.academia.edu/43133311/Ungarbling_Section_VI_of_the_Sanskrit_Heart_Sutra

2020. "Edward Conze: A Re-evaluation of the Man and his Contribution to Prajñāpāramitā Studies." Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, 19, 22-51. http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/223

2020. "The History of the Heart Sutra as a Palimpsest." Pacific World, Series 4, no.1, 155-182. https://pwj.shin-ibs.edu/2020/6934

2020. "Studying The Heart Sutra: Basic Sources And Methods (A Response To Ng And Ānando)." Buddhist Studies Review, 37 (1-2), 199–217. http://www.doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.41982

2021. "Preliminary Notes on the Extended Heart Sutra in Chinese." Asian Literature and Translation 8(1): 63–85. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18573/alt.53

2021. "The Chinese Origins of the Heart Sutra Revisited: A Comparative Analysis of the Chinese and Sanskrit Texts." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 44: 13-52.

2022. "The Cessation of Sensory Experience and Prajñāpāramitā Philosophy" International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture 32(1):111-148.https://www.academia.edu/84003602/The_Cessation_of_Sensory_Experience_and_Prajñāpāramitā_Philosophy.

2022. "The Heart Sutra Revisited." [Review article]. Buddhist Studies Review. 39(2): 229-254. [Critique of five articles on the Heart Sutra appearing in Acta Asiatica 121 and purporting to represent the "frontier" of Heart Sutra research]

2024. “Heart to Heart: A Comparative Study of and Commentary on the Chinese and Sanskrit Heart Sutra Texts”. Buddhist Studies Review 40 (2): 159-88. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.25438.


Magazine articles

2003. "Healing the Land – A Buddhist perspective on aesthetic renewal." Urthona: Buddhism and Art. https://urthona.com/fine-arts/healing-the-land-a-scavenging-assemblage-artist-brings-a-buddhist-perspective-to-aesthetic-renewal/

2021. "Losing Ourselves in the Heart Sutra: A new reading of the ancient scripture surfaces a forgotten Buddhist practice." Tricycle Magazine. Spring 2021: 83-4, 104-6. https://tricycle.org/magazine/heart-sutra-history/


Unpublished Articles

(2017). "A Preliminary Critical Edition of the Chinese Heart Sutra." Draft on academia.

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