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Books

  • 2018. Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250–1850. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press.
      • Reviews: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 87.2 (2019): 546–549; Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient 104 (2018): 377–385; Journal of the Siam Society 107.1 (2019): 149–151; Religious Studies Review 45.2 (2019): 249; Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 175.2–3 (2019): 365–368; Asian Journal of Law and Society 6.2 (2019): 421–427; H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews (March, 2020); H-Asia, H-Net Reviews (December, 2020); Journal of Buddhist Ethics 27 (2020); International Journal of Asian Studies 18.2 (2021): 315–318.
  • 2015. ed. Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. [Indian edition: New Delhi: Synergy Books India, 2018.]
      • Reviews: Journal of Asian Studies 76.4 (2017): 1114–1116; Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia 173.1 (2017): 148–150; H-Buddhism, H-Net Reviews (July, 2016).

Co-Edited Volumes

  • 2019. ed. with Jonathan A. Silk, R. Bowring, V. Eltschinger, M. Radich, L. Dolce, B. Jansen, J. Jorgensen, F. Sferra. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume 2: Lives. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2015. ed. with Jonathan A. Silk, O. von Hinüber, V. Eltschinger, L. Dolce, J. Elverskog, H. Isaacson, R. Mayer, J. Rhi, F. Sferra, and S. Zacchetti. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Volume 1: Languages and Literature. Leiden: Brill.

Journal Issues

  • 2015. ed. with Arlo Griffiths. “Connected and Local Histories of Arakan.” Special Issue, Journal of Burma Studies 19.2.

Articles and Book Chapters

  • 2023. with Aleix Ruiz-Falqués, Alexey Kirichenko, and Thibaut d’Hubert. “A Faultless Science: Dandin and Dharmadasa in Burma and Bengal.” In A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters, edited by Yigal Bronner, 362–411. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2022. “Buddhism and Constitutionalism in Precolonial Southeast Asia.” In Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law, edited by Tom Ginsburg and Benjamin Schonthal, 35–56. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2021–22. “Burmese Inscriptions as Buddhist Legal Texts.” In “Epigraphical Evidence on Patronage and Social Contexts of Buddhist Monasteries in Medieval South and Southeast Asia,” edited by Ryosuke Furui, Arlo Griffiths, and Annette Schmiedchen. Special Issue, Buddhism, Law & Society 7: 327–356.
  • 2019–20. “Judicial Ordeals in Premodern Thailand: Robert Lingat’s ‘Les ordalies au siam’ (1949), an Annotated Translation and Commentary.” Buddhism, Law & Society 5: 31–60.
  • 2015. “The Murray Manuscripts and Buddhist Dhammasattha Literature Transmitted in Chittagong and Arakan.” In “Connected and Local Histories of Arakan,” edited by D. Christian Lammerts and Arlo Griffiths. Special Issue, Journal of Burma Studies 19.2: 407–444.
  • 2015. “In Memoriam. Andrew Huxley: Legal Historian of Burma and Southeast Asia.” In “Connected and Local Histories of Arakan,” edited by D. Christian Lammerts and Arlo Griffiths. Special Issue, Journal of Burma Studies 19.2: 267–273.
  • 2015. with Arlo Griffiths. “Epigraphy: Southeast Asia.” In Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, et al., 988–1009. Leiden: Brill.
  • 2014. “Genres and Jurisdictions: Laws Governing Monastic Inheritance in Seventeenth-Century Burma.” In Buddhism and Law: An Introduction, edited by Rebecca R. French and Mark A. Nathan, 183–197. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • 2013. “Narratives of Buddhist Legislation: Textual Authority and Legal Heterodoxy in Seventeenth through Nineteenth-Century Burma.” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 44.1: 118–144.
  • 2010. “Notes on Burmese Manuscripts: Text and Image.” Journal of Burma Studies 14: 229–254.
  • 2005. “The Authorship of the Dhammavilāsa Dhammasat.” In Myanmar Historical Commission Conference Proceedings, Vol. 2, edited by Than Tun, et al., 190–214. Yangon: Ministry of Education.

Reviews

  • 2020. Review of William Pruitt, Yumi Ousaka and Sunao Kasamatsu, The Catalogue of Manuscripts in the U Pho Thi Library, Thaton (Pali Text Society, 2019). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 83.1: 165–166.
  • 2015. Review of Anne Peters, Birmanische Handschriften, Teil 8 (Steiner, 2014). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 165.2: 513–516.
  • 2011. “Buddhist Manuscript Culture and History in Southeast Asia.” Review of Daniel M. Veidlinger, Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand (University of Hawai`i Press, 2006), H-Buddhism (May 2011).