Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. “Future Perfect: Tolstoy and the Structures of Agrarian Buddhist Utopianism in Taishō Japan.” Engaging Violence: Case Studies from the Japanese Religious ...

His parents, Norbu Wangdu and Dolma Tsering, fled Tibet in the 1960s after China’s occupation in the late 1950s. Born in 1982 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rigdol came to the United States in the late 1990s to ...

“A Buddhist Critique of, and Learning from, Christian Liberation Theology,” Theological Studies, September 2014. “How Buddhist Practice Grounds Social Action in a Secular World,” Dharma World: Living ...

The fundamental premise of this study is that the Buddhist sangha and Buddhist teachings play a key symbolic role in legitimating the exercise of secular power in Thailand. The author argues that a ...

5. After Hasina’s resignation, the anger aimed at her government poured onto religious minorities, especially Hindus and members of Hasina’s party, the secular Awami League, which is backed by ...