Shayne Clarke is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, where he has taught courses on Indian (and East Asian) Buddhism since completing his PhD at UCLA in 2006. He is a specialist in the study of Indian Buddhist monastic law (Vinaya<\/em>), working primarily on legal texts\u2014both canonical and commentarial\u2014preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. His work aims to recover, among other things, lost voices and views from premodern sources, including those related to pregnant nuns and monastic mothers: Buddhist monasticism, but not as we generally imagine it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I am currently working on an edition of a Buddhist Vinaya<\/em> commentary preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese: Vi\u015b\u0101kha(deva)\u2019s Bhik\u1e63u-vinayak\u0101rik\u0101-kusuma-sraj<\/em>. I am also directing a SSHRC-sponsored project to examine Buddhist monastic law codes preserved in Tibetan Dunhuang manuscript collections. Much of the Tibetan Dunhuang Vinaya<\/em> material turns out not to be canonical, but commentarial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLost in Tibet, Found in Bhutan: The Unique Nature of the M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101din Law Code for Nuns,\u201d Buddhism, Law & Society<\/em>, 2 (2016\u20132017), 199\u2013292.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe \u2019Dul bar byed pa<\/em> (Vin\u012btaka<\/em>) Case-Law Section of the M\u016blasarv\u0101stiv\u0101din Uttaragrantha<\/em>: Sources for Gu\u1e47aprabha\u2019s Vinayas\u016btra<\/em> and Indian Buddhist Attitudes towards Sex and Sexuality,\u201d Journal of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies<\/em>, 20 (2016), 49\u2013196.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRight Section, Wrong Collection: An Identification of a Canonical Vinaya<\/em> Text in the Tibetan bsTan \u2019gyur<\/em>\u2014Bya ba\u2019i phung po zhes bya ba<\/em> (Kriy\u0101skandha-n\u0101ma<\/em>),\u201d Journal of the American Oriental Society<\/em>, 124\/2, (2004) 335\u2013340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVinayas\u201d entry in Brill\u2019s Encyclopedia of Buddhism<\/em>, edited by Jonathan A. Silk, Volume 1, pp. 60\u201387. Leiden: Brill, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vinaya Texts<\/em>. Gilgit Manuscripts in the National Archives of India: Facsimile Edition. Volume 1. New Delhi and Tokyo: The National Archives of India and the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, Soka University, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms<\/em>. Honolulu: University of Hawai\u2018i Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMonks Who Have Sex: P\u0101r\u0101jika<\/em> Penance in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms,\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy<\/em>, 37\/1 (2009), 1\u201343.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLocating Humour in Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Codes: A Comparative Approach,\u201d Journal of Indian Philosophy, <\/em>37\/4 (2009), 311\u2013330.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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