David Gardiner: Publications & Papers
Kūkai: Japan’s First Vajrayāna Visionary. Berkeley: Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2024.
“Kūkai” in St. Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Edited by Brendan N. Wolfe et al. , 2024
“Imagery in Tantric Buddhism'” in Richard K. Payne, and Glen A. Hayes (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies (online ed., Oxford Academic, 18 Aug. 2022), . Forthcoming in 2024 hardcover edition
"Tantric Buddhism in Japan: Shingon, Tendai and the Esotericization of Japanese Buddhism." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism (10,000 words) 2019
"Tantric Buddhism in Japan: Saichō and Kūkai." In Oxford Encyclopedia of Buddhism (10,000 words) 2019
"Kukai's Core Philosophy." In Dao: Companion To Japanese Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Gereon Kopf, Springer Press (2019)
"The Body." In The Buddhist World, edited by John Powers. London: Routledge Press, 2015, 248-261
"Paths across Borders: Comparative Reflections on Japanese and Indo-Tibetan Models of the Buddhist Path." Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, Third Series, No. 12, Fall 2010: 127-145
Selected translations from Kûkai's Benkenmitsu nikyôron, Sokushin jôbutsugi, Jûjûshinron and Shôji jissôgi, in Sourcebook in Japanese Philosophy.University of Hawaii Press, 2011: 149-175
"Transcendence and Immanence in Kûkai's Thought." Proceedings of the International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Studies, Koyasan University, 2008
"Metaphor and Mandala in Shingon Buddhist Theology." Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics, 47/1:43-55 (April 2008)
"Saicho" and "Ennin" (two entries). Encyclopedia of Buddhism. New York: Macmillan, 2003
"Transmission Problems?: Kûkai and the Early Dissemination of Esoteric Buddhist Texts." Japanese Religions 28/1: 5-68 (January 2003).
"The Consecration of the Monastic Compound at Mt. Koya." In Tantra in Practice, ed. by David White, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000
"Buddhist Spirituality in the Heian and Kamakura Periods." In Buddhist Spirituality II: Later China, Korea, Japan and the Modern World. Crossroads Press, 1999
"Japan's First Shingon Ceremony." In Religions of Japan in Practice, ed. by George Tanabe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999
"Mandala, Mandala on the Wall: Variations of Usage in the Shingon School." In Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 19:2, 1996: 245-79. (Reprinted in Volume 3 of Japanese Religions, ed. Lucia Dolce, 4 vols. London: Sage Publications, 2012)