Interests: Hindu and Buddhist religion and philosophy, Monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Sanskrit, comparative philosophy of religions, approaches to cross-cultural dialogue.

Representative Publications

 Books:

Abhinavagupta's Commentary on the Recognition of the Lord:  A Translation of the Isvarapratyabhijnavimarsini, with Utpaladeva's Isvarapratyabhijnakarika, Introduction and Notes, SUNY Series in Hindu Studies, Albany:  State University of New York Press, under advance contract

The Teachings of the Odd-Eyed One:  A Study and Translation of the Virupaksapancasika with the Commentary of Vidyacakravartin, SUNY Series in Hindu Studies, Albany:  State University of New York Press, 2008

Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument:  A Contemporary Interpretation of Monistic Kashmiri Saiva Philosophy, SUNY Series Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions, Albany:  State University of New York Press, 1999

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Abhinavagupta's Philosophical Hermeneutics of Grammatical Persons," inaugural issue of Journal of Hindu Studies, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, 1 (October 2008)

"The Plurality and Contingency of Knowledge, and its Rectification according to the Pratyabhijna," in Perspectives on Abhinavagupta (commemoration volume for K.C. Pandey), ed. Navjivan Rastogi and Meera Rastogi, Delhi:  Munshiram Manoharlal, forthcoming

"Tantra and Kashmiri Saivism," in The History of Indian Philosophy, ed. Purushottama Bilimoria, Guy Petterson and Richard King, Routledge Press, forthcoming

"Remarks on Abhinavagupta's Use of the Analogy of Reflection," Journal of Indian Philosophy 33 (December 2005)

"The Dialectic of Transcendence and Immanence in Contemporary Western and Indian Theories of God," in Transcendence and Immanence:  Comparative and Multi Dimensional Perspectives, ed. Liu Shu-hsien et al, Hong Kong:  New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001

"Zu Abhinavaguptas Offenbarungstheorie," Polylog:  Zeitschrift fur interkulturelles Philosophieren 5 (2000); republished by Polylog on the internet in German, English and Spanish

"The Mythico-Ritual Syntax of Omnipotence," Philosophy East and West 48 (October 1998); republished in Linguistic Traditions of Kashmir, ed. Mrinal Kaul and Ashok Aklujkar, Delhi:  D.K. Printworld, 2008; republished in Spanish in Sarasvati 9 (1999)

"Siva's Self-Recognition and the Problem of Interpretation," Philosophy East and West 48 (April 1998)

"Tantric Argument:  The Transfiguration of Philosophical Discourse in the Pratyabhijna System of Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta," Philosophy East and West 46 (April 1996)

Encyclopedia Articles:

 "Tantrism," in Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols., ed. Alan Soble, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing, 2006

"Kashmiri Saiva Philosophy," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005

Reviews:

Review of Hugh B. Urban, Tantra:  Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion for Journal of Asian History (forthcoming)

Review of Kisor Kumar Chakrabarti, Classical Indian Philosophy of Mind:  The Nyaya Dualist        Tradition, for Journal of Oriental Studies, Hong Kong (1998)

Reviews of Lilian Silburn, Kundalalini:  Energy of the Depths, and Paul Eduardo Muller-Ortega,

The Triadic Heart of Siva, for Philosophy East and West  (July 1991)

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