Publications

Book:

The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai Buddhist Environmental Movement. SUNY Press, Albany, NY. 2012.

Thai translation published by Suan Ngam Mii Maa Press, Bangkok, Thailand. 2015.

Book Chapters and Articles:

  • “Tree Ordination and Global Sustainability.” In Kevin Trainor and Paula K. Arai, eds. Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2021.
  • “Buddhist Integration of Forest and Farm in Northern Thailand.” Religions 10(9). 2019. P. 521.
  • “Political Disrobing in Thailand.” Co-authored with Thomas Borchert. For special issue of Buddhism, Law, and Society Vol. 3, 2017-2018. Pp. 113-156.
  • “Environmental Buddhism Across Borders.” Journal of Global Buddhism, special issue on translating Buddhism. Vol. 19. 2018. Pp. 77-93.
  • “Contemporary Buddhism and Ecology.” In Michael Jerryson, ed. Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. Oxford University Press. 2017. Pp. 487-503.
  • “Buddhist Environmental Imaginaries.” In John Powers, ed. The Buddhist World. London & New York: Routledge. 2015. Pp. 433-452.
  • “Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change.” In Barbara Schuler, ed. Climate and Environmental Change in South and Southeast Asia: How are Local Cultures Coping? Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 2014. Pp. 211-230.
  • “Sacred Protests and Buddhist Environmental Knowledge.” In Pattana Kittiarsa & John Whalen-Bridge, eds. Buddhism, Modernity, and the State in Asia. NY: Palgrave/MacMillan. 2013. Pp. 245-262.
  • “Translating Modernity: Buddhist Environmentalism.” In Nalini Bhushan, Jay Garfield, and Abraham Zablocki, eds. TransBuddhism: Transmission, Translation, and Transformation. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press. 2009. Pp.183-207.
  • “The Good Buddha and the Fierce Spirits: Protecting the Northern Thai Forest.” Contemporary Buddhism 8(2). 2007. Pp. 169-185.
  • “Thai Buddhist Monks.” In Bron Taylor, ed. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum International. 2005.
  • “Buddhism and Development: The Ecology Monks of Thailand.” In Christopher S. Queen, Charles Prebish and Damian Keown, eds. Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism. London: RoutledgeCurzon. 2003. Pp. 96-109.
  • “The Spirit(s) of Conservation in Buddhist Thailand.” In Helaine Selin, ed. Nature Across Cultures. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003. Pp. 129-145.
  • “Practical Spirituality and Community Forests: Monks, Ritual and Radical Conservatism in Thailand.” In Paul Greenough and Anna Tsing, eds. Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia. Durham & London: Duke University Press. 2003. Pp. 347-366.
  • “The Karen of Burma and Thailand.” With Yoko Hayami. In Leslie Sponsel, ed. Endangered Peoples: Asia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2000. Pp. 137-155.
  • “Tree Ordination in Thailand.” In Stephanie Kaza and Kenneth Kraft, eds. Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism. Boston: Shambhala Press. 2000. Pp. 198-205. (Reprinted from Ethnology article, Winter 1998.)
  • “The Ordination of a Tree: The Buddhist Ecology Movement in Thailand.” Ethnology 37(1):1-15. Winter 1998.
  • “The Earth Charter and Grassroots Ecology Monks in Thailand.” In Buddhist Perspectives on the Earth Charter.   Amy Morgante, ed. Cambridge, MA: Boston Research Center for the 21st Century. November 1997.
  • “Not only preaching – the work of the ecology monk Phrakhru Pitak Nanthakhun of Thailand.” Forest, Trees and People Newsletter 34:17-20. September 1997.
  • “The Spirit of Conservation.” Seeds of Peace 11(3):27-29, September-December 1995.
  • “Monks and Environmental Conservation: A Case Study in Nan Province.” Seeds of Peace 9(1):7-10, January-April 1993.
  • Buddhism, Morality and Change: The Local Response to Development in Northern Thailand. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, August 1990. UMI: Ann Arbor.
  • “Dhamma Agriculture: Tapping Social Values for Development in Northern Thailand.” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Thai Studies. Kunming, Yunnan, The People’s Republic of China. May 1990.