Thanks David for the additions. I hope Bh. Sujato will improve the format of the wiki. Would you mind to afterwards add your entries in the same format inside the wiki, with a website and maybe also three references? (I hope the improvement of the visuals will be obvious, maybe in the next days). I spent a lot of time on this and would like to delegate new additions to you contributors. Thanks!
Btw Collett is already in the list. A complete publication list will make this wiki too unhandy. The idea is for people to get a first idea and to then research further publications on their own. Therefore some website is important…
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Would you mind to afterwards add your entries in the same format inside the wiki, with a website and maybe also three references?[/quote]
Some authors don’t have three works; you didn’t mention a wiki; I’m not sure why websites help here, when Google & a library catalog can suffice.
The book I had suggested was one she edited; it had many contributions from different authors. But I removed it, to trim the list.
Otherwise, I guess my contribution is rather anemic. I’ll let others flesh it out a bit; I’m despirited.
I’ve made the entries into structured markdown (i.e. using proper heading levels), so if we could follow this in future that would be great. Apart from that, I made one or two edits. But it’s a great start.
I added a small entry for @Brahmali, I’m sure more should be there! Much of his contribution is in the form of A/V material on Youtube rather than written publications, so probebly we should find a place for that.
What I personally had in mind was not to develop a bibliography of early Buddhism - for which we could take the appendix of a solid 2016 book. I wanted rather to develop a list of contemporary researchers that have developed ‘good’ papers (inspiring, new, on a high scholarly level…). Not everything written on early Buddhism is of a high caliber, and I would love it if we could present readers first-choice-scholars.
So my hopes are that contributors have read and admired works from a scholar before putting her/him on the list - quality rather than quantity. For example I find the scholarly level of Shulman’s or Wynne’s work outstanding - even if I don’t agree with all their tenets or conclusions.
Well, Gabriel said scholar who you’ve read and admired, and that seems like a good start.
My tip is to ignore fripperies like affiliation, where it’s published, footnotes, citations, and bibliographies; this is all an elaborate sleight of hand. What matters is if someone has something to say, and presents a solid argument to support it.
Not an Early Buddhism scholar perse, but perhaps relevant. Dr. James Mallinson is planning a paper on the topic of the earliest references to tapasyā or asceticism, primarily relying on the Pāḷi Canon.
Mallinson’s primary focus is on textual study of haṭhayoga. I know @llt has an interest in the other ancient samaṇa traditions and particularly in yoga, and @Gabriel might also be interested. He’s one of my favorite scholars, not just writing about an area of study that has been neglected by good scholarship but has actually practiced doing ethnographic work in India.
I think if he’s using the Pali texts, that counts, by all means add him. I find it just weird how often the Pali texts are ignored by scholars in all sorts of fields.
Early Buddhism, Pāli Buddhism and jhāna meditation in particular.
Buddhism and naturalized sciences
PUBLICATIONS:
How Was Liberating Insight Related to the Development of the Four Jhānas in Early Buddhism? A New Perspective through an Interdisciplinary Approach, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, vol 10, 2016 (5): 85-112: http://jocbs.org/index.php/jocbs/article/view/136
Reexamining Jhāna: Towards a Critical Reconstruction of Early Buddhist Soteriology, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2011.
EBT concepts, especially re. liberation
Manuscripts
Selected Publications
Bhava And Vibhava In Early Buddhism. Journal Of Buddhist Studies. 2017
Middle Way Eclecticism: The Text-critical Method Of The Dhammachai Tipitaka Project. 2015
The Soteriology Stock Unit Of The Sāmaññaphala Sutta: How Was It Formed? How Has It Influenced? 2016
An Archaeological History of Indian Buddhism. 2015
The Place of Veneration in Early South Asian Buddhism. 2013
Material Practice and the Metamorphosis of a Sign. 2012
