Articles, Book Chapters, and Introductions

  • “Contemporary Hindu and Jaina Responses to the Ecological Crisis” in Worldviews, Religion, and the Environment: A Global Anthology.  Edited by Richard C. Foltz.  Belmont, California: Thomson Wadsworth, 2003.  Pp. 113-119.  Reprinted from Barnes, ed., An Ecology of the Spirit, 1990.

  • “Introduction” and “ The Living Earth of Jainism and the New Story: Rediscovering and Reclaiming a Functional Cosmology” in Jainism and Ecology: Nonviolence in the Web of Life.  Edited by Christopher Key Chapple.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University Press, 2002.  Pp. xxi-xliv, 119-140.
  • “Ahimsa in the Mahabharata: A Story, A Philosophical Perspective, and an Admonishment” in Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad Gita, edited by Steven J. Rosen.  Poquoson, Virginia: Deepak Heritage Books, 2002.  Pp. 145-162.
  • “Jainism and Ecology” in When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Story of the Universe and Our Place In It.  Edited by Clifford N. Matthews, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and Philip Hefner.  Chicago: Open Court, 2002.  Pp. 283-292.
  • “Religions of India and Ecology” in Religion and Ecology: Toward a More Creative Interaction.  Edited by Joseph Bracken.  Cincinnati, Ohio: The Brueggeman Center for Interreligious Dialogue, 2001.  Pp. 71-83.
  • “The Living Cosmos of Jainism: A Traditional Science Grounded in Environmental Ethics,” in Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  Volume 130, No. 4. Fall 2001.  Pp. 207-224.
  • “Four Recent Books on Yoga,” review essay in Religious Studies Review.   Volume 27, Number 3, July 2001.  Pp. 239-242.
  • “Arjuna’s Argument: Family Secrets Unveiled.”  Journal of Vaishnava Studies.  Volume X, No. 2, Spring 2001.
  • “Pushing the Boundaries of Personal Ethics: The Practice of Jaina Vows,” in Ethics in the World Religions.  Edited by Joseph Runzo and Nancy Martin.  Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.  Pp. 197-218.
  • “Hinduism and Deep Ecology,” in Deep Ecology and World Religions.  Edited by David Landis Barnhill and Roger S. Gottlieb.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. Pp. 59-76.
  • “Asian Religious Views on Animals: Implications for Bioethics and the Use of Laboratory Animals,” in Bioethics and the Use of Laboratory Animals: Ethics in Theory and  Practice.  Edited by A. Lanny Kraus and David Renquist.  A publication of the American  College of Laboratory Animal Medicine.  Dubuque: Greogory C. Benoit Publishing, 2000.  Pp. 45-56.
  • “Jainism and Buddhism,” A Companion to Environmental Philosophy.  Edited by Dale Jamieson.  Oxford, England, and Malden, Masschusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.  Pp. 52-66.
  • “Introduction,” Hinduism and Ecology: Intersections of Earth, Sky, and Water.  Edited by Christopher Key Chapple and Mary Evelyn Tucker.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, 2000.  Pp. Xxxiii-xlix.  Bibliography on Hinduism and Ecology, pp. 549-567.
  • “The Body in South Asian Religious Thought.”  Moksha Journal.  Vol. IX, No. 2, 2000.  Pp. 55-69.
  • “Sources for the Study of Jaina Philosophy: A Bibliographic Essay.”  Philosophy East and West.  Volume 50, No. 3, 2000.  Pp. 408-412.
  • “Life Force in Jainism and Yoga.”  In The Meaning of Life in the World Religions.  Edited by Joseph Runzo and Nancy M. Martin.  Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2000.  Pp. 137-152.
  • “Reverence for All Life: Animals in the Jain Tradition.”  Jain Spirit.  Issue 2, October-December, 1999.  Pp. 56-58.
  • “Centrality of the Real in Haribhadra’s Yoga Texts.”  In Approaches to Jaina Studies:Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols.  N.K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnstrom, editors.  Toronto: University of Toronto Centre for South Asian Studies, 1999.  Pp. 91-100.
  • “Religion, Economics, and Ecology: A Hindu Response.”  In Ethics and World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies.  Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Christine Gudorf, editors.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999.  Pp. 252-259.
  • “Centrality of the Read in Haribhadra’s Yoga Texts.”  In Approaches to Jaina Studies:  Philosophy, Logic, Rituals and Symbols.  N.K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnstrom, editors.  Toronto: University of Toronto Centre for South Asian Studies, 1999.  Pp. 91-100.
  • “Religion, Economics, and Ecology: A Hindu Response.”  In Ethics and World Religions: Cross-Cultural Case Studies.  Regina Wentzel Wolfe and Christine Gudorf, editors.  Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1999.  Pp. 252-259.
  • "Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga and the Samkhya System: A Case of Vedantic  Inclusivism?"

    • in Moksha Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1998 (appeared in 1999).  Pp. 11-28.

  • "The Land of Plenitude," in The Way of Compassion: Survival Strategies for a World in Crisis, edited by Martin Row. New York: Stealth Technologies, 1999. Pp. 18-24.
  • "Yoga-Drishti-Samuccaya (Selection)," in The Yoga Tradition: Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice, edited by Georg Feuerstein. Prescott, Arizona: Hohm Press, 1998. Pp. 204-206. 
  • "Jainism and Nonviolence" in Subverting Hatred: The Challenge of Nonviolence in Religious Traditions, edited by Daniel Smith-Christopher. Boston: Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, 1998. Pp. 13-24. 
  • "Thomas Berry, Buddhism, and the New Cosmology." Buddhist Christian Studies. Vol. 18, 1998. Pp. 147-154.
  • "Hinduism, Jainism and Ecology." Earth Ethics: Evolving Values for an Earth Community. Vol. 10, No. 1. Fall, 1998. Pp. 16-18.
  • "India: The Land of Plenitude." Satya, Vol. 4, Issue 9, February 1998, pp. 8, 26, 27.
  • "Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrishtisamuccaya," in Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History, edited by John E. Cort, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. 15-30.
  • "Toward an Indigenous Indian Environmentalism," in Purifying the Earthly Body of God: Religion and Ecology in Hindu India, edited by Lance E. Nelson, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. Pp. 13-37.
  • "Animals and Environment in the Buddhist Birth Stories," in Buddhism and Ecology: The Interconnection of Dharma and Deeds, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and Duncan Ryuken Williams, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, 1997.
  • "Renouncer Traditions of India: Jainism and Buddhism," in Ananya: India's 50 Years of Independence, edited by S.N. Sridhar, Stony Brook, New York: Center for India Studies, 1997.
  • "The Way of the Witness, Part I, Part II" in Moksha Journal, Online Edition, www.santosha.com/moksha/mj.htlml, Winter 1996/97, Fall 1998, reprinted from Moksha Journal, 1987. 
  • "Monist (Ekatva) and Pluralist (Anekanta) Discourse in Indian Traditions," in East-West Encounters in Philosophy and Religion, edited by Ninian Smart and B. Srinivasa Murthy (Long Beach: Long Beach Publications, 1996), pp. 120-129.
  • "Buddhism and Nature: Meditation on Nature and Emptiness," Conference Proceedings on Environmental Destruction, Pollution, and Health Issues: A Global Challenge, edited by Skyne Uku-Wertimer, California State University, Long Beach, 1996, pp. 235- 249.
  • "Ahimsa in the Mahabharata," Journal of Vaiava Studies, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 109-125.
  • "Looking for Evidence of Early Jainas: Archaeology, Folk Religion and Women" in Jinamanjari: International Journal of Contemporary Jaina Reflections, Vol. 13, 
  • No. 1, April 1996, pp. 1-5. Also served as Theme Guest Editor for this issue.
  • "Living Liberation in Samkhya and Yoga," in Living Liberation in Hindu Thought, edited by Andrew O. Fort and Patricia Y. Mumme. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. Pp. 115-134.
  • "Abhidharma as Paradigm for Practice," in Pali Buddhism, edited by Frank Hoffman and Deegalle Mahinda. London: Curzon Press, 1996. Pp. 79-101.
  • "Jainism," in Encyclopedia of Bioethics, Revised Edition, edited by Warren Thomas Reich. New York: MacMillan, 1995. Pp. 1299-1301.
  • "Kavis or Ris: The Legacy of Radhakrishnan and the Discipline of Hindu Studies," in New Essays in the Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, edited by S.S. Rama Rao Pappu. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1995. Pp. 65-74.
  • "Haribhadra," "Mahavira," "Patañjali," in Great Thinkers of the Eastern World: The Major Thinkers and the Philosophical and Religious Classics of China, India, Japan, Korea, and the World of Islam, Ian P. McGreal, Editor. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. Pp. 167-169, 180-182, 211-213. 
  • "India's Earth Consciousness." In The Soul of Nature: Visions of a Living Earth, edited by Michael Tobias and Georgianne Cowan. New York: Continuum, 1994. Pp. 145- 151. Reprinted, Plume (Penguin Books), 1996.
  • "Reading Patañjali Without Vyasa: A Critique of Four Yoga Satra Passages." In Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Vol. LXII, No. 1, Spring 1994. Pp. 85-106.
  • "The Academic Study of Jainism in the West: A Survey of Recent Books." In Jinamanjari: Contemporary Jaina Reflections. Vol. 9, No. 1, April 1994. Pp. 43-49.
  • "Two Traditional Indian Models for Interreligious Dialogue: Monistic Accommodationism and Flexible Fundamentalism." In Dialogue and Alliance. Vol. 7, No. 2. Fall/Winter 1993. Pp. 18-30. Appeared February, 1994.
  • "Contemporary Jaina and Hindu Responses to the Ecological Crisis." In An Ecology of the Spirit: Religious Reflection and Environmental Consciousness, edited by Michael Barnes. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994. Pp. 209-220. The Annual Publication of the College Theology Society, 1990, Volume 36.
  • "Hindu Environmentalism: Traditional and Contemporary Resources." In Worldviews and Ecology, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John A. Grim. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press, 1993 (Bucknell Review, Vol. XXXVII, 
  • No. 2). Pp. 113-123. Second Edition: Worldviews and Ecology: Religion, Philosophy, and the Environment. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Press, 1994. Pp. 113-123.
  • "Theology and the World Religions." In The College Student's Introduction to Theology, edited by Thomas P. Rausch, editor. Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1993.
  • "Practice and Dispassion: Patanjali on Meditation." In Darshan (Nos. 77/78, August/September 1993). Pp. 78-83.
  • "Flexible Fundamentalism: A Jaina Approach to Interreligious Dialogue." In The Struggle Over the Past: Fundamentalism in the Modern World, edited by William M. Shea. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1993. Pp.47-60. 
  • "Nonviolence to Animals in Buddhism and Jainism." In Inner Peace, World Peace: Essays on Buddhism and Nonviolence, edited by Kenneth Kraft. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. Pp. 49-62. Revised version of "Noninjury to Animals" (see listing below).
  • "The Immediacy of God's Presence in the Bhagavad Gita." In Darshan (April, 1992, pp. 22-26).
  • "Nonresistant Death." In Jinamanjari: Contemporary Jaina Reflections (Volume II, Number 2, 1991), pp. 51-62.
  • "Foreword." The Bhagavad Gita. B. Srinivasa Murthy, translator. Second Edition. Long Beach, California: Long Beach Publications, 1991, pp. v-vi.
  • "Karma and the Path of Purification." In Karma: Rhythmic Return to Harmony, edited by V. Hanson, R. Stewart, and S. Nicholson. Wheaton, Illinois: Quest Books, 1990. Pp. 255-266.
  • "Effort in the Mahabharata." In The Self and Its Destiny in Hinduism, edited by Purusottama Bilimoria. Victoria, Australia: Deakin University, 1990. Pp. 76-82. Reprinted from Karma and Creativity.
  • "Ecological Nonviolence and the Hindu Tradition." In Perspectives on Nonviolence, edited by V.K. Kool. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990. Pp. 168-177.
  • "The Unseen Seer and the Field: Consciousness in Samkhya and Yoga." In The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy, edited by Robert K.C. Forman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. 53-70.
  • "Foreword." Quest for Certainty: A Comparative Study of Heidegger and Sankara. John A. Grimes. New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Pp. xi-xiii.
  • "Action Oriented Morality in Hinduism." Jeevdhara. Vol. XIX, No. 113 (1989), pp. 362- 376. 
  • "Violence and Nonviolence: A War to End All Wars?" Moksha Journal. Vol. IV, No. 1 (1989), pp. 22-30.
  • "The Way of the Witness." Moksha Journal. Vol. III, No. 1 (1987), pp. 15-31.
  • "Foreword." The Bhagavad Gita. Winthrop Sargeant, translator. Third Edition. Albany: SUNY Press, 1987, pp. xiii-xxi.
  • "Noninjury to Animals: Jaina and Buddhist Perspectives." In Animal Sacrifices: Religious Perspectives on the Use of Animals in Science. Tom Regan, editor. Philadelphia:
  • Temple University Press, 1986, pp. 213-236.
  • "Yoga and Cross Cultural Understanding." In Religions in Dialogue: East and West Meet. Z. Thundy, K. Pathil, F. Podgorski, editors. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985, pp. 101-110.
  • "Introduction and Bibliography." The Concise Yogav_sistha. Swami Venkatesananda, translator. Albany: SUNY Press, 1984.
  • "Citta-vtti and Reality in the Yoga Sutra." Samkhya-Yoga: Proceedings of the IASWR Conference, 1981. Stony Brook, New York: IASWR, 1982, pp. 103-119.
  • "The Paurua Paradigm of the Yogavasistha." The Journal of Religious Studies. Vol. IX (1981), pp. 47-61.
  • "Negative Theology of the Yogavasistha and the Lankavatara Sutra." Journal of Dharma. Vol. V, No. 1 (1981), pp. 34-45.

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