Eric S. Nelson

Selected Publications on Buddhism and Daoism

 

Buddhism

Review of William Edelglass and Jay L. Garfield, Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings (Oxford University Press, 2009). H-Buddhism, Oct. 2009: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24737

Virtue and Violence in Therāvada and Sri Lankan Buddhism [pdf]. Buddhist Roles in Peacemaking, ed. Chanju Mun and Ronald S. Green (Honolulu: Blue Pine Books, 2009), 199-233.

 Questioning Karma: Buddhism and the Phenomenology of the Ethical [pdf]. Revisioning Karma. Ed. Charles Prebish, Damien Keown, Dale S. Wright (Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 2007), 353-373.

Review of Simon James, Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (Ashgate, 2004). Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 12, 2005, 119-126.  [HTML]  [PDF]

Recent Works on the Zen Koan: Steven Heine and Dale Wright (eds), The Koan: Texts and Contexts in Zen Buddhism (Oxford University Press, 2002); Steven Heine, Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters (Oxford University Press, 2002). Buddhist-Christian Studies, Vol. 24, 2004, 284-288. Available from Project Muse:  [HTML]   [PDF]

Buddhism and War: Reviews of Brian Daizen Victoria, Zen War Stories (Routledge, 2003) and Tessa J. Bartholomeusz, In Defense of Dharma: Just-War Ideology in Buddhist Sri Lanka (Routledge, 2002). Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 3, 2003, pp. 252-255.   [HTML]   [PDF]

Review of Allan Hunt Badiner (ed.), Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (Parallax Press, 2002). Journal of Buddhist Ethics, Volume 10, 2003, 66-70.   [HTML]   [PDF]

 

Daoism

Responding with dao: Early Daoist Ethics and the Environment [pdf]. Philosophy East West, 59:3 (July 2009): 294-316.

Questioning Dao: Skepticism, Mysticism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi [pdf]. International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association, 2008, Vol. 1, Issue 1; 5-19.

Review of Russell Kirkland, Taoism: The Enduring Tradition. China Review International 13.2 (Fall 2006): 432-4. Available from Project Muse:  [HTML]   [PDF]

Review of Youru Wang, Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: The Other Way of Speaking. London: Routledge, 2003. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32: 4 (December 2005), 653-656.

Review of Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi. Edited by Scott Cook. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. Journal of Chinese Philosophy 32:3 (September 2005), 529–532.

Responding to Heaven and Earth: Daoism, Heidegger and Ecology [html]. Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 2004, pp. 65-74.

Review of Laozi, Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation. Edited with introduction by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall (Ballantine Books, 2003). Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. II.3, Winter 2003, 143-145.

Review of N. J. Girardot, James Miller, Liu Xiaogan (eds), Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape (Harvard University Press, 2001). Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Vol. II.2, Summer 2003, 342-345.

Also Note:

Review of Lin Ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event (Routledge, 2008) NDPR 2009.03.35