The Dharma’s Gatekeepers: Sakya Pandita on Buddhist Scholarship in Tibet (September 2007, in press at State University of New York Press).

“Yogacara strategies against Realism: Appearances and metaphors,” Blackwell Religion Compass (January 2007).

“Compassion-Buddhism” and “Teachers-Buddhism,” in Yudit Greenberg, ed., The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions (2007, in press at ABC-CLIO).

“No Outside, No Inside: Duality, Reality and Vasubandhu’s Illusory Elephant,” Asian Philosophy 16.1 (March 2006).

“Sa-skya Pandita’s Buddhist Argument for Linguistic Study,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 33/2 (April 2005), pp. 151-184.

Professor Gold specializes in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions, as well as Western philosophy of religion, with a focus on theories of language and learning.  His research looks into approaches to translation and translatability, theories of reading and authorship, and theories of language and literary aesthetics in an exploration of the ways that religious values shape the formation of knowledge in institutions of learning.  His book The Dharma's Gatekeepers (SUNY, in press) investigates the distinctive Buddhist theory of scholarship that was advocated by the great 13th century Tibetan philosopher, Sakya Pandita.

At Drew, Professor Gold teaches survey courses in Indian and Chinese religions, as well as courses in Tibetan Religion, Buddhist Scriptures, and The Doctrine of Nonviolence. He also co-coordinates the department's team-taught course on the Introduction to Religion.  Before joining the Drew faculty in 2006, Professor Gold taught at the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT).