Books
Published/Forthcoming
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- A Catalogue of the Comparative Kangyur (bka' 'gyur dpe bsdur ma).
NY:
AIBS (forthcoming, 2012).
A catalogue of the recently published "Comparative" (dpe bsdur ma ) Kangyur, including cross-references and cataloging information for seven other recensions of the Kangyur: Derge, Peking, Narthang, Cone, Lhasa, Lithang, and Urga.
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Theos Bernard, the White Lama: Tibet, Yoga, and American Religious Life.
NY:
Columbia University Press (2012).
The only comprehensive narrative of the life of Theos Bernard (1908-1947). Based on thousands of primary sources and rare archival materials, White Lama recounts the real story behind the purported adventures of this iconic figure and his role in America's religious counterculture.
Advance Reviews
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Tibetan Verb Lexicon: Verbs, Classes, and Syntactic Frames.
Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications (2003).
A lexicon of Tibetan verbs and paradigms of their usage drawn from
the classical literature.
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Contributed Volumes
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- "Theos Bernard and the Early Days of Tantric Yoga in America"
- in Yoga in Practice. (ed. David White)
Princeton: Princeton University Press (2011), pp.353-364.
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- "Drawing the Steel Bow"
- in
Changing Minds: Essays in Honor of Paul Jeffrey Hopkins.
(ed. Guy Newland)
Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications (2001), pp.291-326.
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In Preparation
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- A Catalogue of the Comparative Tengyur (bstan 'gyur dpe bsdur ma).
NY:
AIBS (in preparation).
A catalogue of the recently published "Comparative" (dpe bsdur ma ) Tengyur, including cross-references and cataloging information for four other recensions of the Tengyur: Derge, Peking, Narthang, and Cone.
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- Classical Tibetan Reader.
Ithaca:
Snow Lion Publications (in preparation).
A progressive reader in the traditional language and topics of the
Tibetan Buddhist educational system.
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Selected Papers
Tibetan Information Technology
- The Use of yig-cha and chos-kyi-rnam-grangs in Computing Lexical Cohesion for Tibetan Topic Boundary Detection
- Paper presented at the Twelfth Seminar of the International
Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS-XII), Vancouver, British
Columbia, August 2010.
- An Entropy-based Assessment of the Tibetan Unicode Encoding
- Paper presented at the Tenth Seminar of the International
Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS-X), Oxford, United
Kingdom, September 2003.
- (with Doug Oard) Comparison of Word-Based and Syllable-Based Retrieval for Tibetan
- Presented as a poster at the Information Retrieval for
Asian Languages Workshop in Hong Kong in September, 2000. Available as a
PDF version.
- Automatic Segmentation and Part-Of-Speech Tagging For Tibetan
- Paper presented at the Ninth Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan
Studies (IATS-9), Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2000.
- A Comparative Study of Knowledge-Based Approaches for Cross-Language
Information Retrieval
- A technical report describing the use of bilingual dictionaries and translation
lexicons for information retrieval. CS-TR-3897 Available as a
postscript version from the UMIACS
Tech. Report Library
- (with Doug Oard) Document Translation for Cross-Language Text Retrieval at the University of Maryland
- Paper presented at the Sixth Text REtrieval Conference
(TREC-6), Gaithersburg MD, November 1997. Available as a
PDF version.
Tibetan Studies
- The AIBS Comprehensive Kangyur and Tengyur Catalogue: Bibliographic Resources for Translators, Scholars, and Students
- Paper presented at the Sixteenth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS-16), Jinshan, Taiwan, R.O.C., June 20-25, 2011.
- On the Comparative Bka'-bstan-'gyur
- Paper presented at the Sixteenth Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS-16), Jinshan, Taiwan, R.O.C., June 20-25, 2011.
- Patterns of Engagement: From 'Hinduism and Science' to 'Buddhism and Science'
- Paper presented at the 2010 American Academy of Religion Conference
(AAR 2010), Atlanta, Oct. 31 - Nov. 1, 2010.
- Looking For a Lost Gita: Gedun Chopel's Tibetan Translation of the Bhakti Chapter
- Namarupa, vol. 7 (2007), pp.41-45.
- Theos Bernard and the Twentieth Century Mythology of Tibet
- Paper presented at the Fourteenth International Association of Buddhist Studies Conference
(IABS-XIV), London, Aug. 29 - Sept. 4, 2005.
- Book Review: Jeffrey Hopkins. Emptiness in the Mind-Only School
of Buddhism:
- Dynamic Responses to Dzong-ka-ba's The Essence of Eloquence:
I.
Journal of Buddhist Ethics 6 (1999): 232-235. Available in PDF.
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- Book Review: Georges Dreyfus. Recognizing Reality. Center
for South Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall 1996.
- Available in
HTML.
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Current Research
- The "Brightening of the Lamp" (pradīpodyotana)
- An NEH funded project to translate the Guhyasamāja root tantra, together with the Brightening of the Lamp commentary attributed to Candrakīrti.
- The Jñānapada Commentarial Lineage of Guhyasamāja
- Translations and analyses of works by the Indian siddha Buddhaśrījñānapada (sangs rgyas ye shes zhabs) and his commentarial descendants on the theories and practices associated with the Mañjuvajra form of Guhyasamāja.
- Vasubandhu's Treasury of Manifest Knowledge (abhidharmakosa)
- A new translation of Vasubandhu's verse and commentary presentation of the tenets of the Kasmiri Sarvastivadin School.
Previous Research
- The Life and Works of Theos Bernard (1908-1947)
- The biography of an early pioneer of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia University.
Fieldwork and professional development
May 2006 - September 2006: Dissertation Research in Tibet and Northern India (Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, and Spiti).
February 2001 - March 2001: Text Acquisitions in North China and Eastern Tibet.
November 1999 - December 1999: Text Acquisitions in North India.
March 1996 - April 1996: Text Acquisitions in North, Central and South
India.
1991 - 2001: Private study with the venerable
Geshe Jampel Thardo of Drepung
Loseling Monastic University
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-- Wernher
von Braun 