Philology
Walpola Rahula’s classic What the Buddha Taught has a nice selection of translations from the Pali canon in the back. I was ...
On September 27, 2023 I delivered a lecture (via a video call) at the International Seminar on Tantric Religion, Pondicherry Unive...
The other course I am teaching this term is Introduction to the Study of Religion. We are using Jeffrey Kripal’s excellent t...
I am reading Kālidāsa’s play Vikramorvaśīyam with students this week. We are using the English translation of V. Narayana Ra...
I recently recorded the following interview with Dr. Raj Balkaran at New Books Network on my first book, Early Tantric Medicine. W...
The final passage in A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses is very unique—it is quite possibly the only example in world history that a...
Chapter 11 illuminates the Tantric “goddess of desire” Kāmeśvarī. Her chapter in A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses differs from all...
This next line drawing created for A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses is Kauśikī, a girl-form of the Great Goddess who fends for her...
Click the image above to listen to a recent interview on A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses that I did with Raj Balkaran for New Boo...
I have launched a project page on Kickstarter to help me get my book on the Gāruḍam medical tradition finalized and sent to a publ...