Publications

Here are some of the recent publications by members of Bristol Buddhist Studies

Rupert Gethin (Emeritus Professor)

• ‘Moggaliputta Tissa’s Points of Discussion (Kathāvatthu): Reasoning and Debate in Early Buddhist Thought’ in William Edelglass, Pierre-Julien Harter and Sara McClintock, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Indian Buddhist Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2022), pp. 160–171
• ‘What Upasīva asked and how the Buddha answered: On the Upasīvamāṇavapucchā (Suttanipāta vv. 1069–1076) and its commentaries’ in Alastair Gornall, ed., Jñānapraśaṃsā: In Praise of Knowledge: Essays in Honour of E. G. Kahrs (Halle: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg, 2022), pp. 161–182
• ‘Schemes of the Buddhist Path in the Nikāyas and Āgamas’ in Cristina Pecchia and Vincent Eltschinger, ed., Mārga: Paths to Liberation in South Asian Buddhist Traditions: Papers from an international symposium held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, December 17 – 18, 2015 (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2020), pp. 5–77
• ‘Reading Repetitions in the Saṃyutta-nikāya and Early Abhidhamma: From the Mahā-vagga to the Dhammasaṅgaṇi’ in Dhammadinnā, ed., Research on the Saṃyukta–āgama (Taipei: Dharma Drum Corporation, 2020), pp. 109–169
• ‘The Buddhist faith of non-Buddhists: from dual belonging to dual attachment’ in Gavin D’Costa and Ross Thompson, ed., Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging: Affirmations, Objections, Explorations (Farnham: Ashgate, 2016), pp. 179–195
• ‘Buddhist conceptualizations of mindfulness’ in K. W. Brown, J. D. Creswell and R. M. Ryan, ed., Handbook of Mindfulness: Theory, Research, and Practice (New York: Guilford Publications, 2015), pp. 9–41
• 'Tales of Miraculous Teaching: Miracles in early Indian Buddhism', in The Cambridge Companion to Miracles, edited by Graham H. Twelftree (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), pp. 216–34.
• ‘A note on the Mahākammavibhaṅga-sutta and its commentary’, Journal of the Pali Text Society, 32 (2015), 241–260.
• 'On some definitions of mindfulness', in Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12 (2011), 263–79.
• Sayings of the Buddha: a selection of suttas from the Pali Nikāyas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
• 'Mythology as Meditation: From the Mahāsudassana Sutta to the Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra', Journal of the Pali Text Society 28 (2006), pp. 63-112.
• 'On the Nature of dhammas: A review article', Buddhist Studies Review 22 (2005), pp. 175-94.
• 'He who sees dhamma sees dhammas: dhamma in early Buddhism', Journal of Indian Philosophy 32 (2004), pp. 513-42.
• ‘On the Practice of Buddhist Meditation According to the Pali Nikāyas and Exegetical Sources’, Buddhismus in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 9 (2004), 201–221.
• The Buddhist Path to Awakening, 2nd edition (Oneworld: Oxford, 2001).
• The Foundations of Buddhism, Oxford University Press, 1998.
• ‘Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma’ in Tadeusz Skorupski and Ulrich Pagel, ed., The Buddhist Forum, Vol. III (London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1994), pp. 11–35
• ‘The Mātikās: Memorization, Mindfulness and the List’ in J. Gyatso, ed., In The Mirror of Memory: Reflections on Mindfulness and Remembrance in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism (Albany: State University of New York, 1992), pp. 149–172

Rita Langer

• "Ten ways of making merit (dasapuñña-kiriyavatthu) in Theravāda exegetical literature and contemporary Sri Lankan practice" in Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism (Abington: Routledge 2022) pp 257-270.
• "The transformative power of food: the 'milk mothers' in Sri Lankan Buddhism", Material Religion, 15, 5 Dec 2019 pp 529-552.
• "From Riches to Rags: how new clothes for the dead become old robes for monks", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 24, Jan 2014 pp. 125-144.
• "A Buddhist Cosmology in Food" (35:59 minutes documentary), 2015. DOI (http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/h10sdqnhz4a81tu03yj3qgk9s) Comprising six short documentaries.
• Sermon Studies and Buddhism: A Case Study of Sri Lankan Preaching, International Institute of Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, (Studia Philologica Buddhica), 2013.
• "Chanting as 'bricolage technique' a comparison of South and Southeast Asian funeral recitation" in Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China edited by Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012).
• "Feasting for the Dead: Theravāda Buddhist Funeral Rites", in Studying Buddhism in Practice edited  by John S. Harding (London: Routledge, 2012), 51-64.
• Buddhist rituals of death and rebirth: contemporary Sri Lankan practice and its origins. Abingdon; New York, Routledge, 2007
• "Von Goettern, Geistern und Kraehen: Buddhistische Beerdigungsriten in Sri Lanka" ['Of Gods, Demons and Crows': Buddhist Funeral Rites in Sri Lanka], in: Abschied von den Toten: Trauerrituale im Kulturvergleich edited by Jan Assman, Franz Maciejewski and Axel Michaels (Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2005), pp.125-149.
• Das Bewusstein als Träger des Lebens: Einige weniger beachtete Aspekte des viññāna im Palikanon, Vienna, 2001.

Benedetta Lomi

• "Refurbish, Reconsecrate, Repurpose. Handling Old and Incinerated Icons in Medieval Japan" Ars Orientalis 52. Special Issue "Reuse and Recycling in Japanese Visual and Material Cultures, " 2023, pp. 171-171.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/ars.3991
• “Withered Wood and Dead Ashes. Making Sense of the Sacred Bodies of Kamatari at Tōnomine.” Religions, Special Issue: Aspects of Medieval Japanese Religion 13(5): 439, 2022. Open Access. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050439
• Outside the Way: Framing Non-Buddhist Practices in Heian Japan.” Buddhism and its Religious Others (Proceedings of the British Academy). Edited by Chris CV Jones. Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 189-209.  
• “Ox-Bezoars and the Materiality of Heian-period Therapeutics," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, vol. 45, no. 2, 1, 2019, pp. 227-268. Open Access. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26854485
• “Hayagrīva”. Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Buddhism Volume 2 “Lives”. Edited by Richard Bowring; Vincent Eltschinger; Jonathan Silk. Vol. II Brill Academic Publishers, 2019, pp. 218-227.
• “Avalokiteśvara in East Asia.” Brill's Encyclopaedia of Buddhism. Volume Two "Lives". Edited by Richard Bowring; Jonathan Silk; Vincent Eltschinger. Vol. II Brill Academic Publishers, 2019, pp. 546-561.
• "The Ox-Bezoar Consecration (Gōō kaji) for Safe Childbirth: Selected Readings from the Shingon Ritual Collections" in Buddhism & Medicine: Selected Translations 2 Volumes. Edited by Pierce C. Salguero. Columbia University Press, 2017, pp. 351-57.
• "Dharanis, Medicines and Straw-dolls. Ritual Choreographies and Healing Strategies of the Rokujikyōhō in Medieval Japan" Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 41(2), 2014, pp. 255-304. Open Access. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43233881 
• "Iconography of Ritual: Images, Texts and Beliefs in the Batō Kannon Fire Ritual," in Axel Michaels, Anand Mishra, Lucia Dolce, Gil Raz, and Katja Triplett, eds., Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia, vol. 1 of Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Rituals (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 5 vols.) 2010, pp. 525-45

Yael Shiri

• "The Śākyas as Gautamas: Monastic Self-representation in the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 44 (2022).
• "From Royal Ideology to Religious Polemics." Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient 106 (2020): 29-108.

Paul Williams (Emeritus Professor)

• Buddhist Funeral Cultures of Southeast Asia and China edited by Paul Williams and Patrice Ladwig (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012).
• (with Anthony Tribe), Buddhist Thought: a complete guide to the Indian tradition, Routledge, 2000.
• Altruism and Reality, Curzon, 1998.