Presentations

2025

"On the Candrapradīpasamādhi Sūtra & the Chinese Recensions of the Samādhirāja Sūtra"
Tokyo Buddhist Discussion Group, Oct 11, 2025

"Revisiting HTR for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script"
OCR/HTR for Under Researched and Under Represented Languages in DH, Oct 3, 2025, Central European University

"Conceiving of the Mother of all Buddhas: Niṣṭhānanda Vajrācārya's Narrative Pedagogy as Witnessed in his Prajñāpāramitā Ekaviṃśati-Stotra"
XXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Aug 12, 2025

"Buddhist Thought and Liberation"
BDK仏教を英語で学ぶ会 2025：英語で仏教入門, Jun 27, 2025

"The Practice of Buddhism"
BDK仏教を英語で学ぶ会 2025：英語で仏教入門, May 29, 2025

"The Prajñāpāramitā Ekaviṃśati-Stotra and its Commentary"
The Buddhist Newars and Their Neighbours: A Numata Colloquium, May 24, 2025, University of Toronto

"The Foundations of Buddhism"
BDK仏教を英語で学ぶ会 2025：英語で仏教入門, Apr 24, 2025

"On the Prajñāpāramitā Ekaviṃśati-Stotra"
Tokyo Buddhist Discussion Group, Apr 12, 2025

"On the Nepāl Bhāṣā of the Gopālarājavaṃśavalī: An investigation into three grammatical matters"
1st World Conference on Nepalbhasa Studies, Feb 21, 2025

2024

"Reading the Ghanavyūha Sūtra in Light of The Enneads"
First International Symposium on Buddhism & Neoplatonism,  Oct. 4 

"Transcendent Understanding: Rennyo’s Soteriology and Plotinus’ Dialectic in Dialogue"
The 20th International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies Conference,  Sep. 28 

"On the Ghanavyūha Sūtra"
Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group, Sep. 

"Introduction to Newar Buddhism"
Musashino University: Center for the Study of Buddhist Cultures,  Jun. 12 

"End-to-End Speech Recognition for Endangered Languages of Nepal"
Alexander James O'Neill, Rolando Coto-Solano
Seventh Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages 

"Breaking the Textual Fourth Wall: On Paratextuality and Self-Referentiality in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature"
Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Feb. 18

"Transkribus for Asian Languages"
with Rachael Griffitths
Transkribus User Conference, Feb. 24

"Handwritten Text Recognition for Pracalit Script Manuscripts"
Transkribus User Conference, Feb. 24

"Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition for Minority Asian Languages"
Jan 19, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies

"Considerations on a Taxonomy of Mahāyāna Literature"
Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group

2023

"Language Preservation through ASR"
with Marieke Meelen, Rolando Coto-Solano, Sonam Phuntsog, Charles Ramble
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

"The Emergence of Egophoricity: NLP Pipeline for Diachronic Tibetan and Newar Corpus Analysis"
with Christian Faggionato

Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhism
Numata Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde & Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship, Hamburg University

2022

"The Tathāgataguhya Sūtra"
Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group 

"A Nepalese Pañcarakṣā Sūtra Manuscript: The Sūtra of the Five Protectresses in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Collection, Toronto"
Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads
University of Toronto and Institute for Advanced Study

"Worship and Recitation of Mahāyāna Sūtras"
Religion Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Religious Studies & the Religion Gradual Council, University of the West

"The Worship of the Pañcarakṣā Sūtra in Nepal"
Hidden Stories: Global History, Local Networks
Institute for Advanced Study

"Sonic Agency in Newar Buddhist Doctrine and Ritual"

Mantras: Sound, Materiality, and the Body
Department of South Asian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, co-organized by the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Brown University and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

"The Centrality of the Prajñāpāramitā in the Development of the Newar Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna"
XIXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

2021

"From the Perfection of Wisdom as an Attainment to a Goddess"
Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group

"Living Books: Sūtra Worship in Newar Buddhism"
Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

"Orality, Literacy, and Agency in South Asian Book Worship"
Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto

2020

"The Centrality of the Prajñāpāramitā in the Development of Newar and Mahāyāna Vajrayāna"
Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group

2019

"Pā Thyākegu and the Worship of Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature"
Lotus Research Centre, Lalitpur, Nepal

"The Ritual Worship of the Prajñāpāramitā in Nepal: An Historical Contextualisation"
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego

2018

"Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Buddhism"
Historical Studies Department, University of Toronto

"Newar Buddhist Book Worship"
XLVIIth Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin–Madison 

2017

"On the Origins of Newar Householder Monasticism"
Conference for South Asian Religions, University of Toronto 

"The Agency of Texts in Newar Buddhism"
XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

2015

"Introduction to Newar Buddhism"
Historical Studies Department, University of Toronto

"The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines"
Historical Studies Department, University of Toronto