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O'Neill Alexander

オニール アレクサンダー | O'Neill Alexander
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
Homepage URL  (1): https://alexanderjoneill.com/
Research field  (3): Cultural anthropology and folklore ,  Philosophy - Chinese, Indian, Buddhist ,  Religious studies
Research keywords  (5): paratexts ,  natural language processing ,  Mahāyāna Buddhist literature ,  Newar Buddhism ,  Buddhism
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (4):
  • 2022 - 2026 The Emergence of Egophoricity: a diachronic investigation into the marking of the conscious self
  • 2019 - 2024 The Newar Online Dictionary
  • 2019 - The Database of Religious History
  • 2012 - 2016 Once the Buddha Was a Girl: Girl Children and Young Women as Buddhist Agents in Burma and Nepal
Papers (6):
  • Alexander James O'Neill, Marieke Meelen. The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar: From manuscript to morphosyntax. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale. 2024. 1-30
  • Marieke Meelen, Alexander O'Neill, Rolando Coto-Solano. End-to-End Speech Recognition for Endangered Languages of Nepal. Pro- ceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages. 2024. 7. 1. 83-93
  • Alexander James O'Neill, Nathan W. Hill. Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script. Journal of Open Humanities Data. 2022. 8. 26. 1-6
  • Alexander O'Neill. Textual Manifestations: The Use and Significance of Mahāyāna Literature in Newar Buddhism. European Bulletin of Himalayan Research. 2020. 54. 26-67
  • Alexander James O'Neill. Self-Referential Passages as a Characteristic of Mahāyāna Sūtras. Pacific World. 2020. 4. 1. 41-57
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MISC (7):
  • Alexander O'Neill, Marieke Meelen. Classical Newar Annotation Manual: Part II: Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging. 2024
  • Marieke Meelen, Alexander O'Neill. Classical Newar Annotation Manual: Part I: Preprocessing. 2024
  • Alexander O'Neill, Marieke Meelen. Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar. 2024
  • Alexander O’Neill, Marieke Meelen, Rolando Coto-Solano, Sonam Phuntsog, Charles Ramble. Language Preservation through ASR. Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium. 2023
  • Alexander James O'Neill. Felix Otter: A Course in Reading Classical Newari: Selections from the Vetālapañcaviṃśati. xiii, 162 pp. Heidelberg and Berlin: CrossAsia-ebooks 2021. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 2021. 84. 2. 399-400
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Books (5):
  • The Great Collection Sūtra: Volume One: A Translation of the Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra
    Dharmakāya Books 2023 ISBN:9781739472504
  • The King Ajātaśatru Sūtra: A Translation of the Ajātaśatrukaukṛtyavinodana Sūtra from the Chinese of Lokakṣema together with three short sūtras on Ajātaśatru
    Lulu 2022 ISBN:9781458327123
  • The Secrets of the Tathāgata: The Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Inconceivable Secrets of the Tathāgata
    Lulu 2021 ISBN:9781716238505
  • Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts
    Fo Guang Shan 2013
  • Fo Guang Dictionary
    Fo Guang Shan
Lectures and oral presentations  (30):
  • Reading the Ghanavyūha Sūtra in Light of The Enneads
    (First International Symposium on Buddhism & Neoplatonism 2024)
  • Transcendent Understanding: Rennyo’s Soteriology and Plotinus’ Dialectic in Dialogue
    (The 20th International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies Conference 2024)
  • On the Ghanavyūha Sūtra
    (Tokyo Buddhist Discussion Group 2024)
  • Introduction to Newar Buddhism
    (Musashino University: Center for the Study of Buddhist Cultures 2024)
  • End-to-End Speech Recognition for Endangered Languages of Nepal
    (Seventh Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages 2024)
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Works (4):
  • Newar Dialects Archive
    Alexander James O'Neill 2023 - 現在
  • Bibliography of Translations from Sanskrit Buddhist Texts into English
    Alexander James O'Neill 2023 - 現在
  • Ground Truth Model for Pracalit for Sanskrit and Newar MSS 16th to 19th C. Version 1.
    Alexander James O'Neill 2022 - 現在
  • Newar: XLSR-Wav2Vec2
    Alexander James O'Neill 2024 -
Education (3):
  • 2015 - 2021 University of Toronto Department for the Study of Religion Buddhist Studies
  • 2014 - 2015 University of Toronto Department for the Study of Religion Buddhist Studies
  • 2010 - 2014 University of Toronto Specialist in the History of Religions and Minor in Philosophy
Professional career (1):
  • Doctor of Philosophy (University of Toronto)
Work history (3):
  • 2024/04 - 現在 Musashino University Buddhist Studies (Liberal Arts Education) Specially Appointed Assisstant Professor
  • 2022/04 - 2024/03 SOAS University of London Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Research Fellow
  • 2019/07 - 2020/09 Taisho University The Institute for Comprehensive Studies of Buddhism Research Fellowship Funded by the Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (BDK) Canada Graduate Scholarship
Awards (9):
  • 2023 - SOAS University of London Seed Corn Fund ASR For Marginalised Languages: Building A Network to Embrace Advanced Technologies In Fieldwork-Based Research
  • 2019 - Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies Research Travel Award
  • 2019 - BDK Canada BDK Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • 2018 - Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies Research Travel Award
  • 2018 - University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union Conference Bursary
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Association Membership(s) (8):
SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies ,  UK Association for Buddhist Studies ,  Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society ,  American Oriental Society ,  Association for Asian Studies ,  Pali Text Society ,  International Association of Buddhist Studies ,  American Academy of Religion
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