Books
Discerning Buddhas: Authority, Agency, and Masculinity in Chan Buddhism. Columbia University Press (Sheng Yen Series in Chinese Buddhist Studies), 2025. [link]
Buddhist Masculinities. Co-edited with Megan Bryson. Columbia University Press, 2023. [link]
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
“Transcendents in Translation: Buddhist Affordances for Imagining xian 仙 in China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 51, no. 2 (2023): 171–205. [link] [PDF]
“Possessing Enlightenment: Sorcery, Selfhood, and Tragic Responsibility in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryphon.” Numen 70, no. 4 (2023): 337–368. [link] [PDF]
“Ritual Authority and the Problem of Likeness in Chan Buddhism.” History of Religions 62, no. 1 (2022): 1–48. [link] [PDF]
“Becoming Chinese Buddhas: Claims to Authority and the Making of Chan Buddhist Identity.” T’oung Pao 105, no. 3–4 (2019): 357–400. [link] [PDF]
“Pregnant Metaphor: Embryology, Embodiment, and the Ends of Figurative Imagery in Chinese Buddhism.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 78, no. 2 (2018): 371–411. [link] [PDF]
Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
“How Chan Masters Became ‘Great Men’: Masculinity in Chinese Chan Buddhism.” In Buddhist Masculinities, edited by Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew (Columbia University Press, 2023), 51–77. [link]
Book reviews
Review of Embodying Xuanzang: The Postmortem Travels of a Buddhist Pilgrim, by Benjamin Brose. Journal of Chinese Religions 52, no. 2 (2024): 261–264. [link]
Review of Chan Before Chan: Meditation, Repentance, and Visionary Experience in Chinese Buddhism, by Eric M. Greene. History of Religions 61, no. 4 (2022): 423–25. [link]
Review of The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature, by Mario Poceski. Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (February 2019). [link]
Review of Daoism in Japan, ed. Jeffrey L. Richey. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 79, no. 1 (February 2016): 225–27. [link]