Short Writings and Opinion Pieces
“What the dead, the uncanny and the monstrous tell us about human nature.” The Conversation, January 13, 2025.
“What the Buddhist text Therigatha teaches about women’s enlightenment.” The Conversation, March 19, 2024.
“Traditional Buddhist teachings exclude LGBTQ people from monastic life, but change is coming slowly.” The Conversation, December 8, 2022.
“Buddhist nuns and female scholars are gaining new leadership roles, in a tradition that began with the ordination of Buddha’s foster mother.” The Conversation, December 8, 2021.
New Books in Buddhism Interviews
Natasha L. Mikles. Shattered Grief: How the Pandemic Transformed the Spirituality of Death in America. Columbia University Press, 2024.
Cameron Bailey and Aleksandra Wenta. Tibetan Magic: Past and Present. Bloomsbury, 2024.
Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew. Buddhist Masculinities. Columbia University Press, 2023.
Annabella Pitkin. Renunciation and Longing: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Himalayan Buddhist Saint. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Dominique Townsend. A Buddhist Sensibility Aesthetic Education at Tibet’s Mindröling Monastery. Columbia University Press, 2021.
Audio Documentary
Field Notes: War on Christmas, Peace on Christmas. Sacred & Profane (2021, December 21).
Interviews, Podcasts, and Other Speaking Events
Life and ‘Soul’ of Yeshe Tsogyel: Woman, Disciple, Consort and Dakini. Interview with Dr. Jue Liang, Dakini Publications. an overview article accompanying the interview can be found here.
Materialities of Tibetan Buddhist Books, with Rebecca Bloom and Benjamin Nourse @ the Bibliographical Society of America, August 2022.
Women’s Evolving Influence in Male-Led Faiths, with Ingrid Mattson, Emilie M. Townes, and Carolyn Woo. The Associated Press, Religion News Service, and The Conversation, December 2021. Watch the full webinar here.
Comparative Buddhist Sexual Ethics, with Kali Nyima Cape, Sarah Jacoby, Sharon Suh, James Robson, Amy Langenberg, and Willa Blyth Baker. The Religion & Sexual Abuse Project, September 2021.