Selected Works (in chronological order)

Orality, writing and authority in South Asian Buddhism: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Mahāyāna (1998) – David L. McMahan

Buddhism and Secular Subjectivities: Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirror of Secularism (2021) – David L. McMahan

If the fragmenting forces of late modernity have shattered the illusion of a fixed self, anātman provides a way of rethinking subjectivity in its absence.

Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practice in Ancient and Modern Worlds (2023) – David L. McMahan