Selected Publications

• “Theologies of Mind: Eriugena and Pratyabhijñā Śaivism.” Modern Theology (February 2026).
• “Self-Awareness (rang rig) and Nondual Presence: Tibetan Mahāmudrā and a Christian-AdjacentCorrelation.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 45 (2025).
• God’s Primal, ex nihilo ‘Yes.’” Syndicate Network symposium on Brian Robinette, TheDifference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation (University of Notre Dame Press,2023). February 2023 https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/the-difference-nothing makes/ .
• “Knowing the Real: Nonduality and Idealism in Dignāga, Dharmakīrti, and Lonergan,”Buddhist-Christian Studies 42 (October 2022): 217–236.
• “Eckhart’s Systematics: Christ the God-Human Ground.” Modern Theology 38, no. 4(October2022): 754–776.
• “Dharmakīrti and the Theologians: Pratyabhijñā Śaivism and Christian Theological Reading.”Cithara 60, no. 1 (November 2020): 6–27.

Selected Recent Presentations

• “Nature of Mind in Mahāmudrā and Christian Theological Parallels.” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies biannual conference (Hamburg: July 2026). 
• “Rethinking Teaching in the Age of GenAI.” Boston College Theology Department Retreat (Dover, MA: December 2025). 
• “How I’ve Redesigned My Core Course in Light of AI.” Boston College Theology Department, Faculty Lunch Conversation (November 12, 2025). 
• Panel proponent for “Affect in Contemplative Practice – Tibetan and Christian Parallels,” Comparative Theology Unit of the American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025). 
• “Affect and Insight in Dzogchen Preliminary Practices.” For the above panel at American Academy of Religion annual meeting (Boston: November 2025). 
• Panel proponent and convener for “Tibetan Buddhism in Comparison,” European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8–12, 2025). 
• “Dzogchen and Theisms.” For the above panel at the European Academy of Religion Annual Conference (Vienna: July 8–12, 2025). 
• “Daniel Helminiak’s ‘Nonreflecting Consciousness’ and Buddhist Contributions to the Critical Realist Study of Consciousness.” 52nd Lonergan Workshop (Boston College: June 15–18, 2025). 
• “A Tibetan View of Self-Awareness (rang rig) in Christian Contemplative Reception.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting (San Diego: November 24, 2024). 
• “A Buddhist-Christian Understanding of the Mind-Made Body (manomayakāya).” European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies (Archabbey of St. Ottilien, Upper Bavaria: June 27–July 1, 2024). 
• “Creating Is Not Free Choosing: Dismantling an Analogy.” Pre-circulated paper for Mount Angel Fellowship of Scholars (Mount Angel Seminary, Saint Benedict, Oregon: May 31, 2024). 
• “Buddhist Practices for Widening the ‘I:’ Taking Other Beings as One’s Body.” Lunchtime lecture for the Boisi Center (Boston College: April 17, 2024). 
• “Natural Liberation: A Christian Reception of Mahāmudrā.” Catholic Theological Society of America – Comparative Theology Topic Session (Milwaukee: June 2023). 
• “Buddhist Receptions of Christian Theology in the Work of John Makransky.” European Academy of Religion annual conference (St. Andrew’s, Scotland: June 2023). 
• Convener for panel “Buddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Inside Out.” European Academy of Religion (St. Andrew’s: June 2023). Co-panelists: John Makransky, Brian Robinette, Perry Schmidt-Leukel (University of Münster). 
• “Greco-Buddhism in Antiquity and its Relation to Cynicism, Stoicism, and Pyrrhonism.” May Workshop for Perspectives on Western Civilization program (Boston College: May 17th, 2023). 
• Respondent to Felix Wilfred, “Buddhism – A Civilizational Cosmopolitanism.” Lecture three of the annual Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity (Boston College: February 2nd, 2023). 
• “The Word’s One Descent in Eriugena’s Periphyseon.” Notre Dame Conference on Medieval Philosophy and Theology (Notre Dame: May, 2022). 
• “Self-Awareness and God.” International Network in Philosophy of Religion (Cornwall, NY: January, 2022). 
• “Pratyabhijñā Śaivism and Lonergan: God is an Unrestricted Act of Understanding.” Lonergan and Human Consciousness (Notre Dame: December, 2021). 
• “He Was Re-Imaged Before Them:’ Eckhart’s Preaching on the Transfiguration.” 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, MI: May, 2021). 
• “Creation out of Nothing and Classical Yogācāra.” Midwest American Academy of Religion (April, 2021).