Publications
“Living it Out: Manthologies,” (contributor to roundtable) Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 36, no. 1 (Spring 2020), 145-158
“Contemporary Pure Land Miracle Tales,” in Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts, ed. by Georgios T. Halkias and Richard K. Payne (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019), 477–495.
“Pure Land Devotional Poetry by a Chan Monk,” in Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts, ed. by Georgios T. Halkias and Richard K. Payne (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019), 540–550.
“Zhongfeng Mingben,” in Richard Bowring, Vincent Eltschinger, and Michael Radich, eds., Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume II: Lives (Brill, 2019).
“Buddhist Religious Practice in Imperial China,” in David Ludden, ed., Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (Oxford University Press, June 2018)
Translations of and introductions to “Cao Weisi 曹惟” and “The Clan of Xingyang 滎陽氏” in Sarah Allen, Jessey Choo, and Alexei Ditter, eds., Taiping guangji: A Reader in Tang Sources (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2017).
“Understanding Retribution in a Changing Religious Landscape: The Case of Yan Zhitui 顏之推 (531-591),” in Mu-chou Poo, Harold A. Drake, Lisa Raphals, eds., Old Society, New Belief: Religious Transformation of China and Rome, ca. 1st-6th Centuries (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017).
“Halves and Holes: Collections, Networks, and Epistolary Practices of Chan Monks,” in Antje Richter, ed., A History of Chinese Letters and Epistolary Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2015).
Illusory Abiding: The Cultural Construction of the Chan Monk Zhongfeng Mingben (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, November 2014).
“Buddha in a Box: The Materiality of Recitation in Contemporary Chinese Buddhism,” Material Religion 10.4 (September 2014).
“Bodhisattva Cults in Chinese Buddhism,” in Mario Poceski, ed., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2014).
“Zhongfeng Mingben and the Case of the Disappearing Laywomen,” Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 26 (2013): 67-88.
“Why Has the Rhinoceros Come from the West? An Excursus into the Religious, Literary, and Environmental History of the Tang Dynasty,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 131.3 (2011): 353-70.
“From Imperial Glory to Buddhist Piety: The Record of a Ming Ritual in Three Contexts,” History of Religions 51.1 (2011): 59-83.
“The Chan Master as Illusionist: Zhongfeng Mingben’s Huanzhu Jiaxun,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 69.2 (2009): 271-308.
“Between Zhongfeng Mingben and Zhao Mengfu: Chan Letters in their Manuscript Context,” in Juliane Schober, Claudia Brown, and Stephen Berkwitz, eds., Buddhist Manuscript Cultures (Routledge, 2009).
“Visualizing Pilgrimage and Mapping Experience: Mount Wutai on the Silk Road” in Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony, eds., The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road (Brill, 2008).
“Politics and Chinese Religion,” in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd edition (MacMillan, 2004). Co-authored with Jack W. Chen.
