Eric Sean Nelson, Selected Publications on Buddhism and Daoism

 

Buddhism

Virtue, Violence, and Engagement in Therāvada and Sri Lankan Buddhism. SACP Forum for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 23, No. 47, Fall 2006, 192-216.

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

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

Questioning Dao: Skepticism, Mysticism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi. International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association, 2008, Vol. 1, Issue 1; 1-15. [PDF]

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. 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.