Publications

Douglas Osto, PhD.

Power, Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism: The Gandavyuha-sutra, London: Routledge 2008.

Reviews:

• A Review of Power, Wealth and Women

Articles:

• “A New Translation of the Bhadracarī with Introduction and Notes,” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 12.2 (December 2010): 1-21
• “The Supreme Array Scripture: A new interpretation of the title ‘Gandavyūha-sūtra’,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 37.3 (June 2009): 273–290
• “‘Proto-Tantric’ Elements in the Gandavyuha Sutra,” Journal of Religious History33.2 (June 2009): 165-177
• “Soteriology, Asceticism and the Female Body in Two Indian Buddhist Narratives,”Buddhist Studies Review 23.2 (2006): 203–220
• “Orality, Authority and Conservatism in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras,” in Dialogue and Early South Asian Religions: Reading the Sources, edited by Laurie Patton and Brian Black, Farnham: Ashgate (forthcoming)
• “Visual Culture in the Buddhist Tradition: A comparative look at two recent studies,” Art Bulletin (forthcoming)

Book Reviews:

• Sree Padma and A. W. Barber (eds.), Buddhism is the Krishna River Valley of Andhra, in Religion 40 (2010): 65–66
• Daniel Boucher, Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahāyāna: A Study and Translation of the Rāstaprapālaparipcchā-sūtra, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 11.2 (December 2009): 203-7.
• Jonathan A. Silk, Riven by Lust: Incest and Schism in Indian Buddhist Legend and Historiography, on H-Net Reviews, H-Buddhism (October 2009)
• Douglas E. Cowan and David G. Bromley, Cults and New Religions: A Brief History, inReligion 39 (2009): 210–211
• Ralph Flores, Buddhist Scriptures as Literature: Sacred Rhetoric and the Uses of Theory, in Religions of South Asia 3.1 (2009): 151–153 
• Susanne Mrozik, Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics, in Religion 38 (2008) 403–404
• Barbra Clayton, Moral Theory in Santideva’s Siksasamuccaya: Cultivating the Fruits of Virtue, in Journal of Buddhist Ethics 15 (2008): 63–67
• Barabara Hendrischke, The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping Jing and the Beginnings of Daoism, in New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 10.1 (June 2008): 170–172
• Dan Arnold, Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion, in The Journal of Religion 87.1 (January 2007): 128–130
• Gavin Flood, The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition, in Religion 36 (2006): 58–60