• UCLA, Ph.D., 2006
• University of Canterbury (New Zealand), M.A. in Religious Studies, 1999
• University of Canterbury (New Zealand), B.A. (Honours) in Japanese Studies, 1998
• University of Canterbury (New Zealand), B.A. Faculty of Arts, 1997 

Courses

Undergraduate

Topics in Buddhist Thought and History: Introduction to the Study of Indian Buddhist Epigraphy (711)
Topics in Buddhist Thought and History: Pilgrims (711)
Topics in Buddhist Thought and History: Indian Monasticism—Nuns (711)
Topics in Buddhist Thought and History: Buddhist Literature (711)
Topics in Buddhist Thought and History: Buddhist Commentarial Literature (RS 711)
Topics in Indian Buddhist Texts: Abhidharma (714)
Topics in Indian Buddhist Texts: Anthologies (714)
Topics in Indian Buddhist Texts: Daily Life in India Around the Turn of the Common Era (714)
Topics in Indian Buddhist Texts: Introduction to the Study of Monastic Law (714)
Topics in Indian Buddhist Texts: Manuscript Cultures & Collections (714)
Topics in Indian Buddhist Texts: Narrative Literature (714)
Readings in Indian Buddhist Texts (Sanskrit) (715)
Topics in Buddhist Studies: Recent Scholarship: The Mahayana (718)

Monographs

• Vinaya Texts. Gilgit Manuscripts in the National Archives of India: Facsimile Edition. Volume 1. New Delhi and Tokyo: The National Archives of India and the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, 2014.
  
  [This volume, issued in B4 size, contains an Introduction to the Gilgit Vinaya Manuscripts Preserved in the National Archives of India (pp. 1–4), an Introduction to the Vinaya Concordance (pp. 5–15), a Bibliographical Survey of the Extant Sanskrit Folios (pp. 16–36), a Bibliography (pp. 37–45), and a Concordance to the Gilgit Vinaya Manuscripts Preserved in the National Archives of India, compiled in collaboration with Drs. Fumi Yao and Masanori Shono, detailing (1) folio numbers, (2) image numbers in the previous black-and-white facsimile editions, (3–4) volume, page, and line numbers in modern editions, (5–7) location in Tibetan translation in the sDe dge, Peking, and sTog editions, and (8) location in Yijing’s Chinese translation (pp. 46–79). It also contains full-colour facsimiles of 570 folio sides/fragments, all individually presented together with the above 8 pieces of concordance data (Plates, pp. 1–261) and 78 Select Photographic Enlargements (Plates, pp. 264–277). The volume includes a Preface to the New Series by Prof. Oskar von Hinüber (pp. xi–xiv) and a Postscript by Prof. Noriyuki Kudo (p. 80).]
  
  
• Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms. University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014.

Journal Articles

• “On Some Curious Cases Where the Buddha Did Not Make a Rule: Palliative Care, Assisted Suicide, and Abortion in an Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Code.” International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture, 31/1 (2021): 13–113.
• “Lost in Tibet, Found in Bhutan: The Unique Nature of the Mūlasarvāstivādin Law Code for Nuns.” Buddhism, Law & Society 2 (2016–2017; published 2018): 199–292.
• “The ’Dul bar byed pa (Vinitaka) Case-Law Section of the Mulasarvastivadin Uttaragrantha: Sources for Gunaprabha’s Vinayasutra and Indian Buddhist Attitudes towards Sex and Sexuality.” Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies 20 (2016): 49–196.
• “When and Where is a Monk No Longer a Monk? On Communion and Communities in Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Codes.” Indo-Iranian Journal 52 (2009): 115–141.
• “Locating Humour in Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Codes: A Comparative Approach.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 37 (2009): 311–330.
• “Monks Who Have Sex: Parajika Penance in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 37 (2009): 1–43.
• “The case of the nun Mettiya reexamined: on the expulsion of a pregnant bhiksuni in the Vinaya of the Mahasanghikas and other Indian Buddhist monastic law codes.” Indo-Iranian Journal 51 (2008): 115–135.
• “Miscellaneous Musings on Mulasarvastivada Monks: The Mulasarvastivada Vinaya Revival in Tokugawa Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33 (2006): 1–49.
• “Right Section, Wrong Collection: An Identification of a Canonical Vinaya Text in the Tibetan bsTan ’gyur—Bya ba’i phung po zhes bya ba (Kriyaskandha-nama).” Journal of the American Oriental Society 124 (2004): 335–340.
• “Vinaya Matrka—Mother of the Monastic Codes, or Just Another Set of Lists? A Response to Frauwallner’s Handling of the Mahasamghika Vinaya.” Indo-Iranian Journal 47 (2004): 77–120.
• “The Mulasarvastivada Vinaya Muktaka 根本説一切有部目得迦.” Buddhist Studies [Bukkyo kenkyu 佛教研究], 30 (2001): 81–107.
• “The Existence of the Supposedly Non-existent Siksadatta-Sramaneri: A New Perspective on Parajika Penance.” Buddhist Studies [Bukkyo kenkyu 佛教研究] 29 (200): 149–176.

Essays

• “Vinayas.” Pages 60–87 in Volume 1 of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Edited by Jonathan A. Silk. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
• “Creating Nuns Out of Thin Air: Problems and Possible Solutions concerning the Ordination of Nuns according to the Tibetan Monastic Code.” Pages 227­–238 in Dignity & Discipline: Reviving Full Ordination for Buddhist Nuns. Edited by Thea Mohr and Jampa Tsedroen. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2010. 
• “The Mulasarvastivadin Vinaya: A Brief Reconnaissance Report.” Pages 45–63 in Early Buddhism and Abhidharma Thought: In Honor of Doctor Hajime Sakurabe on His Seventy-seventh Birthday. Kyoto: Heirakuji shoten, 2002.
•  “One Rule For All? Samghavasesa Indemnity for the Sarvastivadin Monastic Hierarchy.” Pages 387–398 in Buddhist and Indian Studies in Honour of Professor Sodo Mori. Hamamatsu: Kokusai Bukkyoto Kyokai, 2002.