History

My Essays of History and Historiography. 

Notes on Finding Buddhists in Global History. (12 April 2024)

History as Practiced by Philologists: A Response to Levman's Response to Drewes. (16 February 2024).

We Will Never Know What Language the Buddha Spoke (5 January 2024).

Why Did Buddhists Abandon Buddhavana? (17 November 2023).

Myth vs History. (1 September 2023)

Meier's Historicity Criteria. (14 July 2023)

Notes on Xuanzang's Waning Years (30 June 2023)

Some Issues of Pāli Chronology (30 September 2022)

On the Historicity of the Buddha in the Absence of Historical Evidence. (09 September 2022).

The Water Nation and the Fire Nation. (29 January 2022)

Bibliography

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Drewes, David. (2017). "The Ideal of the Historical Buddha." Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 40: 1-15.

Faure, Bernard. (2022) The Thousand and One Lives of the Buddha. University of Hawai'i Press.

Graeber, D. and Wengrow, D. (2021). The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Everything. Allen Lane.

Schopen, Gregory. (1991). "Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism". History of Religions Journal 31(1): 1-23. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1062872

Schopen, Gregory. (1996). "Two Problems in the History of Indian Buddhism: The Layman/Monk Distinction and the Doctrines of the Transference of Merit." In Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India. University of Hawaii Press.

Stargardt, Janice. (1995). “The Oldest Known Pali Texts, 5–6th century: Results of the Cambridge Symposium on the Pyu Golden Pali Text from Śrī Kṣetra, 18–19 April 1995.” The Journal of the Pali Text Society 21: 199-213.

Trueman, Carl R. (2010). Histories and Fallacies: Problems Faced in the Writing of History. Wheaton, Ill: Crossway.

Vincent, John. (2006). An Intelligent Person's Guide to History. London: Duckworth Overlook. (first published 1995).

Walser, Joseph. (2022). "Buddhism without Buddhists? Academia & Learning to See Buddhism Like a State". Pacific World. Series 4, Vol. 4: 103-170. https://www.shin-ibs.edu/documents/pwj4/3/4-3-4-Walser.pdf

Walters, Jonathan S. (1998). Finding Buddhists in Global History. American Historical Association.

———. (1999) "Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the Sermon on the Noble Quest (Ariyapariyesana Sutta)." History of Religions 38.3: 247-8.

———. (2000). "Buddhist History: The Sri Lankan Pāli Vaṃsas and their Commentaries". In Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practice in South Asia, 99-164. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195124309.003.0003