Cuilan Liu. “Flower Garland: The Transmission of the Vinayakārika Mālākāra in Tibet”, in Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Jue Liang, and William A. McGrath (eds.), Histories of Tibet: Essays in Honor of Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp (New York: Wisdom Publications, 2023): 355-366.
Cuilan Liu. “Law and Slavery on the Silk Roads: How Did Buddhist Monks and Nuns Participate in the Slave Trade?” BuddhistRoad Paper No. 32 (2022): 3-26.
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Cuilan Liu. “Legally Buddhist: Monks, Nuns, and Legal Texts in Dunhuang.” Studies in Chinese Religons 6 4 (2020): 407-442.
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Cuilan Liu. “Buddhism in Court: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy in Indian Buddhist Monastic Law.” History of Religions 60. 2 (2020): 103-131.
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Cuilan Liu. “The Fall of a Chinese Buddhist Monk: Law and State Governance in Post-Imperial China.” Journal of Law and Religion 35. 3 (2020): 432-449.
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Cuilan Liu. 2019. “Hybrid Courts and Hybrid Laws: The Legal Governance of Buddhism in Imperial China.” Journal of Chinese Religions 47.2 (2019): 153-193.
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Cuilan Liu. “Buddhist Litigants in Public Court: A Case Study of Legal Practices in Tibetan-ruled Dunhuang (786-848).” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139.1 (2019): 91-113.
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Cuilan Liu. 7/2018. “Reciting, Chanting, and Singing: The Codification of Music in Buddhist Canon Law.” Journal of Indian Philosophy 46.4 (2018): 713-752.
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Cuilan Liu. “Merit-Making or Financial Fraud? Litigating Buddhist Nuns in Early 10th Century Dunhuang.” Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 41 (2018): 169-208.
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Cuilan Liu. “Regulating the Performing Arts: Buddhist Canon Law on the Performance and Consumption of Music in Tibet.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 40 (2017): 55-91.
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Cuilan Liu. “Reciters and Chanters: Monastic Musicians in Buddhist Law Texts.” Kenkyū nenpō 研究年報 51(2013): 255-270.
Cuilan Liu. “Noble or Evil: The Ṣaḍvārgika Monks Reconsidered.” Acta Orientalia 66. 2 (2013):179-195.
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