Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit
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Biography
Ph.D. Religion, Columbia University, 1983
M.Phil. Religion, Columbia University, 1976
M.A. Religion, Columbia University, 1974
B.A. Religion, Carleton College, 1972
Current research projects:
An edition with translation and study of a Gandharan Abhidharma Buddhist manuscript fragment as part of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
Research
Selected Research
- Richard G. Salomon, Collett Cox, Tim Lenz, Chanida Jantrasrisalai, Qian Lin, Fei Zhao, Michael Skinner. The Early Buddhist Manuscript Project. 1996-.
- "Evo suyadi: Essays in Honor of Richard Salomon's 65th Birthday." Bulletin of the Asia Institute New Series/Volume 23
- Collett Cox, Hiromichi Takeda. "Arguments on Existence in the Mahāvibhāsā." Festschrift Volume for Ronald Nakasone. 2010.
- Collett Cox. "From Category to Ontology: the Evolution of Dharma in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma." Journal of Indian Philosophy 32.5-6 (2004): 543-597.
- Collett Cox. "Whether Buddhas Arise or Do Not Arise: The Variant or Invariant Nature of Dependent Origination (pratītyasamutpāda)." Felicitation Volume for Professor Junshō Katō, ed. by Toshihiro Wada. Tokyo: Shunjusha, 2000. 580-564.
- Collett Cox. "Kaśmīra: Vaibhāsika Orthodoxy." Sarvāstivāda Buddhist Scholasticism, for Handbuch der Orientalistik by Charles Willemen, Bart Dessein, and Collett Cox. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1997.
- Collett Cox. Disputed Dharmas: Early Buddhist Theories on Existence. An Annotated Translation of the Section on Factors Dissociated from Thought from Saṅghabhadra’s Nyāyānusāra. Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 1995.
- Collett Cox. "Attainment through Abandonment: The Sarvāstivādin Path of Removing Defilements." Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and its Transformations in Buddhist Thought, ed. Robert Buswell and Robert Gimello. Studies in East Asian Buddhism 7. Honolulu: Kuroda Institute, University of Hawaii Press, 1992. 63-105.
Research Advised
- Lin, Qian. (2015). Mind in Dispute: The Section on Mind in Harivarman’s *Tattvasiddhi (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle.
- Pahlajrai, Prem. (2014). Niścaldās and his Vṛttiprabhākar: Advaita Vedānta in the Vernacular (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Washington, Seattle.
Courses Taught
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
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