Past president of the PTS and founder of The Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies.

Selected Works by year

1984 • 1987 • 1988 • 1990 • 1994 • 1995 • 2013 • 2018 • 2019

1984

Temporary Ordination in Sri Lanka

1987

Old Bodies Like Carts
Three Souls, One or None: The Vagaries of a Pāli Pericope

1988

Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka
Two Notes on Visuddhimagga IX

1990

Making Mountains Without Molehills: The Case of the Missing Stūpa

1994

Aśoka: The Great Upāsaka

1995

The Monk in the Pāli Vinaya: Priest or Wedding Guest?

2013

A Radical Buddhism for Modern Confucians: Tzu Chi in Socio-Historical Perspective
Did the Buddha know Sanskrit?

2018

Christianity as Model and Analogue in the Formation of the ‘Humanistic’ Buddhism of Tài Xū and Hsīng Yún
Fo Guang Shan seen through Telescope and Microscope

2019

A Note on the Meaning and Reference of the Word “Pāli”