He received his PhD in Buddhist Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. His publications are: Like a Waking Dream (with Geshe Lhundup Sopa), Wisdom Publications, 2012. He has two entries in the Oxford Bibliiographies online: one on Nagarjuna and another on the Mulamadhyamakakarikas. He has essays in the volume Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture, Center for South Asia, 2005.