MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Journal Articles
Encyclopedia & Dictionary Articles, Gallery Brochures and Book Reviews
Memorial Brochure
 

Sugata Saurabha An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya [co-authored with Subarna Man Tuladhar]. Oxford University Press, 2009. Supplementaru Materials.

Religions of Asia Today [co-authored with John L. Esposito and Darrell J. Fasching]. Oxford University Press, 2008.

World Religions Today, 2nd edition [co-authored with John Esposito and Darrell Fasching]. New York:  Oxford University Press, 2005. [My chapters are: “Primal Religions,” “Buddhism,” “Hinduism,” and “East Asian Religions”] The second edition was thoroughly revised, sharpened, shortened.

World Religions Today, 1st edition [co-authored with John Esposito and Darrell Fasching]. New York:  Oxford University Press, 2002. [My chapters are: "Buddhism," "Hinduism," and "East Asian Religions"]

Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism. Albany: State of New York University Press, 2000. Supplementary Plates

A Syllabus of Himalayan History, Anthropology and Religion. [co-authored with Theodore Riccardi, Jr.] Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1995.

The Tulādhars of Kathmandu: A Study of Buddhist Tradition in a Newar Merchant Community.  Columbia University: Ph.D. Dissertation, 1984. (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, #85-06008).

Religion and Globalization. [co-authored with John Esposito and Darrell Fasching]. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Sugata Saurabha: A Poem on the Life of Buddha by Chittadhar Hridaya of Nepal. [with Subarna man Tuladhar]. Cambridge: Harvard Oriental Series 67, 2007.

"Ritual (Re-)Constructions of Personal Identity: Newar Buddhist Life-Cycle Rites and Identity among the Ur?y of Kathmandu" in Astrid Zotter and Christof Zotter, eds. Hindu and Buddhist Initiations in India and Nepal. Wiesbaden, Germany: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010, 183-195.

"Altruism in Classical Buddhism," in Jacob Neusner and Bruce Chilton, eds. Altruism in World Religions. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005, 88-114.

"The Use of Visual Media in the Study of Religious Belief and Practice" [with Christine Greenway] in Steven Glazier and Charles A. Flowerday, editors. Selected Readings in the Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical and Methodological Essays. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2003, 223-271.

"Buddhism: The Politics Of Compassionate Rule" in Jacob Neusner, ed. God's Rule: The Politics of World Religions. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003, 233-256.

"From Generalized Goal to Tantric Subordination: Sukhāvatī in the Indic Buddhist Traditions of Nepal," in Richard K. Payne and Kenneth K. Tanaka eds. Approaching the Pure Land: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003, 236-263.

"The Use of Visual Media in the Study of Religious Belief and Practice" [with Christine  Greenway] Steven D. Glazier and Charles A. Flowerday eds. Anthropology of Religion: Theoretical, Methodological and Confessional Essays. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2003.

"Buddhism: The Politics of Compassionate Rule" in Jacob Neusner, ed. God's Rule: The  Politics of World Religions. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press,  2003.

"Representations of Buddhism in Undergraduate Teaching: The Centrality of Ritual and  Story Narratives,"  in Victor Hori and Richard P. Hayes, eds. Teaching Buddhism in  the West: From the Wheel to the Web. Surrey, U.K.: Curzon, 2002.

"Ancient India: Belief and Society" (12-21), "A New Community" (46-55), "The Human Condition" (58-63), "The Four Noble Truths" (64-71), "The Path of the Buddha"  (72-79), "Tantra" (162-173) in  Kevin Trainor, ed. Buddhism: An Illustrated Guide. London: Duncan-Baird Publications and Oxford University Press, 2001.

"Growing Up Newar Buddhist: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhī Macā and Its Context," in Al Pach and  Debra Skinner eds. Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and History in Nepal. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield Press, 1998, 301-318.

"Buddhist Communities: Historical Precedents and Ethnographic  Paradigms," in Steven Glazier ed. Anthropology of  Religion: A Handbook . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997, 319-367.

"Buddhist Merchants in Kathmandu: The Asan Twāh Market and Urāy Social Organization," in  David Gellner and Declan Quigley eds. Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative  Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1995, 38-79.

"The Power of Mantra: a Story of the Five Protectors," Chapter 11 of Donald S. Lopez ed.  Religions of India in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, 227-234.

"The Story of the Horn-Blowing" and "The Tale of Simhala the Caravan Leader," for Donald S.  Lopez, ed. Buddhism in Practice. Princeton University Press, 1995, 151-169 & 328-335.

"The Asian Soul of Transcendentalism," with Kent Bicknell, in Education About Asia 16 (2), 2011, 12-19.

"Getting the Foundations Right When Teaching Asian Religions," in Education About Asia. 15 (2), 2010, 4-13.

"Nepal: History," Nepal: Sites," and "Kathmandu Valley," in William M. Johnson, ed. The Encyclopedia of Monasticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.

"Sukhāvatī Traditions in Newar Buddhism," South Asia Research 16 (1), 1996, 1-30.

"Patterns of Religious Belief in a Buddhist Merchant Community, Nepal,"  Asian Folklore Studies  55 (2), 1996, 237-270.

"Notes on the Urāy and the Modernization of Newar Buddhism," Contributions to Nepalese  Studies 23 (1), 1996, 109-117.

"A Chronology of Newar-Tibetan Relations in the Kathmandu Valley," in Siegfried Lienhard ed.  Change and Continuity: Studies in the Nepalese Culture of the Kathmandu Valley.  (Torino: Edizioni Dell'orso, 1996), 149-166.

"Nepāla Mahāyāna Bauddha Dharmayā Punarūtthāna Nimti Chamha Shiksharthīryā Bicār,"  (In Newari: "On the Revival of Newar Mahāyāna Buddhism: One Scholar's Reflections"), Nhasalā 25, 1995, 57-76.

"The Nepāl Jana Jīvan Kriyā Paddhati, a Modern Newar Guide for Vajrayāna Life-Cycle Rites,"  Indo-Iranian Journal 37, 1994, 1-46.

"Contributions to the History of Buddhist Ritualism: A Mahāyāna Avadāna on Caita Veneration  from the Kathmandu Valley," Journal of Asian History 28 (1), 1994, 1-38.

"Himalayan Religions in Comparative Perspective: Considerations Regarding Buddhism and  Hinduism across their Indic Frontiers," Himalayan Research Bulletin XIV, 1994 (1-2), 25-46.

"Newar Buddhist Samyak Festival: a Photo Essay," Religious Studies News, May 1994.

"Newar-Tibetan Trade and the Domestication of the Simhalasārthābāhu Avadāna," History of  Religions 33 (2), 1993, 135-160.

"Contributions to the Study of Popular Buddhism: The Newar Buddhist Festival of Gumlā  Dharma," Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 16, 1993, 7-52.

"Himalayan Frontier Trade: Newar Diaspora Merchants and Buddhism," in Martin Brauen ed.  Anthropology of Tibet and the Himalayas (Zurich: Volkerkundemuseum, 1993), 165-178.

"Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley: Ethnic Boundaries and Religious History,"  Journal of Asian and African Studies 38, 1989, 31-57.

"Mahāyāna Vratas in Newar Buddhism," The Journal of the International Association of  Buddhist Studies 12 (1), 1989, 109-138.

"Childhood and Newar Tradition: Chittadhar Hridaya's Jhī Macā," Asian Folklore Studies  XLVIII (2), 1989, 195-210.

"Newars and Tibetans in the Kathmandu Valley: Three New Translations from Tibetan Sources,"  [with Lozang Jamspal], Journal of Asian and African Studies 36, 1988, 187-211.

"Contributions to the History of Nepal: Eastern Newar Diaspora Settlements," [with D.R.  Shakya], Contributions to Nepalese Studies 15 (1), 1988, 25-65.

"Sārvajanik Svāsthya, Tvāh.bāhāh va Bauddha Nīti" (In Newari: "Public Health, Community,  Buddhist Ethics,") Nhasalā, 1987, 15-19.

"Samgha," "Stūpa," "ājīvika Sect," "Newar," "Nāgārjuna," and "Nirvāna," in Ainslie Embree ed.  Encyclopedia of Asian History. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

"Nepal" Amnesty International Voice 5 (1), 1986, 15-16.

"The Anthropology of Development in Nepal," Contributions to Nepalese Studies 13 (2), 1986,  167-180. [Excerpted in Himal, 1987]

"Hyu Pāh.yā Jah./ Nevāh. Samskritiyā Sah" (In Newari: "Finding the Past in Newar Tradition")  Nhasalā, 1981, 30-33.

"Nevāh. Bauddha va Hindu Saha Astitvay Chapulu" (In Newari: "On Hindu-Buddhist Relations")  Nhasalā, 1980, 74-76.

ENCYCLOPEDIA AND DICTIONARY ARTICLES:

"Buddhism and Shamanism," in Mariko Walter and Eva Friedman, eds. Shamanism: An Encyclopedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2004, 30-34.

"Nepal" and "Buddhist Literature in Newari," in Robert Buswell, ed. Encyclopedia of Buddhism, New York: Macmillan, 2004, 588-592 and 592-594.

"Buddhism: India," in Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, ed. Encyclopedia of Religion and War. New York: Routledge, 2004, 43-46.

"Buddhism and South Asian Folklore," in Margaret Mills, ed. South Asian Folklore Encyclopedia. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2003, 80-82.

"Nepal: History," "Nepal: Sites," and "Kathmandu Valley" in William M. Johnson, ed. Encyclopedia of Monasticism. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.

"Sangha," "Stūpa," "ājīvika Sect," "Newar," "Nāgārjuna," and "Nirvāna," in Ainslie Embree ed. Encyclopedia of Asian History. New York: Macmillan, 1987.

GALLERY  BROCHURES:

"Daruma-San: Images of Daruma in Traditional and Popular Japanese Art." [with Mark Lincicome] Worcester: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, 1993.

"Asan Tol: An Exhibition in Photographs and Narrative of a Market in Kathmandu." Kathmandu,  Nepal: U.S. Information Service Gallery, 1982.

Review of David N. Gellner, Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, and John Whelpton, eds. Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Nepal. In Himalayan Research Bulletin XIX (1), 1999, 69-72.

"Global Tibet, Symbolic Tibet, Spiritual Tibet, and Tibet: Recent Resources Briefly Noted," in Himalayan Research Bulletin XVI (1-2), 1996, 53-54.

Review of John Powers,  Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Samdhinirmocanāsūtra in The Journal of Asian Studies, August 1995, 884-885.

Review of David N. Gellner, Monk, Householder, Tantric Priest: Newar Buddhism and Its Hierarchy of Ritual  in History of Religions, Summer 1995, 93-95.

Review of Robert I. Levy, Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal  in American Anthropologist 94, 1992, 968-970.

Review of Paul Williams, Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations  in Journal of Asian Studies 50, 1991, 122-124.

Review of Siegfried Lienhard, Songs of Nepal: An Anthology of Nevar Folksongs and Hymns  in Journal of Asian Studies 43, 1984, 641-2.

"Enduring Sentiments: Global Wisdom, Quotes and Quips in Memory of Thornton Lewis" North Branch Press, 1991.

Scholars or students interested in obtaining offprints of any of these publications should contact me via e-mail: tlewis@holycross.edu

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