Alexander O'Neill

(O'Neill Alexander)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Institute of Buddhist Culture; Liberal Arts Education; Faculty of Business Administration, Musashino University

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy(2021, University of Toronto)

Contact information: oneillmusashino-u.ac.jp
Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): Alexander James O'Neill
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9982-2589
J-GLOBAL ID: 202401009609091595
researchmap Member ID: R000065327

External link: https://alexanderjoneill.com/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Education

2015 - 2021

Buddhist Studies, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
2014 - 2015

Buddhist Studies, Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
2010 - 2014

Specialist in the History of Religions and Minor in Philosophy, University of Toronto

Awards

Papers

The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar

Alexander James O’NEILL, Marieke MEELEN

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 1-30, Sep 23, 2024 Peer-reviewedLead author

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End-to-End Speech Recognition for Endangered Languages of Nepal

Marieke Meelen, Alexander O'Neill, Rolando Coto-Solano

Pro- ceedings of the Seventh Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, 7(1) 83-93, 2024 Peer-reviewed

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Text Recognition for Nepalese Manuscripts in Pracalit Script

Alexander James O'Neill, Nathan W. Hill

Journal of Open Humanities Data, 8(26) 1-6, Nov 30, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author

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Textual Manifestations: The Use and Significance of Mahāyāna Literature in Newar Buddhism

Alexander O'Neill

European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 54 26-67, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author

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Self-Referential Passages as a Characteristic of Mahāyāna Sūtras

Alexander James O'Neill

Pacific World, 4(1) 41-57, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author

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Misc.

Classical Newar Annotation Manual: Part II: Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging

Alexander O'Neill, Marieke Meelen

Jul 28, 2024 Lead author

This is part two of the Classical Newar Annotation Manual for the Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON) detailing segementation and part-of-speech tagging procedures for corpus annotation. For full details, please see:O'Neill & Meelen, "The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar: from Manuscript to Morphosyntax," Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (2024). See also: Part I (Preprocessing) Tools for the Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON)
Classical Newar Annotation Manual: Part I: Preprocessing

Marieke Meelen, Alexander O'Neill

Jul 28, 2024

This is part one of the Classical Newar Annotation Manual for the Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON) detailing preprocessing procedures for corpus annotation. For full details, please see:O'Neill & Meelen, "The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar: from Manuscript to Morphosyntax," Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (2024). See also: Part II (Segmentation and POS Tagging) Tools for the Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON)
Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar

Alexander O'Neill, Marieke Meelen

Jul 26, 2024 Lead author

This dataset contains segmented and part-of-speech-tagged files that comprise the ongoing Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON). Files are provided in .txt format. File names are explained as follows: cnew (Classical Newar)century (e.g. 12)short text name (and other information such as manuscript name (e.g., MSB) and line number completed for incomplete texts (e.g. 10000))SEG or POS (segmented or part-of-speech-tagged e.g. cnew19-manicuda-10000_SEG.txt For full details, including text citations with discussion, please see: O'Neill & Meelen, "The Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar: from Manuscript to Morphosyntax," Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale (2024). Annotation Manual Part I (Preprocessing) Annotation Manual Part II (Segmentation and POS Tagging) Tools for the Diachronic Annotated Corpus of Newar (DACON)
Language Preservation through ASR

Alexander O’Neill, Marieke Meelen, Rolando Coto-Solano, Sonam Phuntsog, Charles Ramble

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead author

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Felix Otter: A Course in Reading Classical Newari: Selections from the Vetālapañcaviṃśati. xiii, 162 pp. Heidelberg and Berlin: CrossAsia-ebooks 2021

Alexander James O'Neill

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 84(2) 399-400, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author

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Books and Other Publications

The Great Collection Sūtra: Volume One: A Translation of the Mahāsaṃnipāta Sūtra

Alexander James O'Neill, Dharmacakṣus Āloka, Charles D Patton II (Role: Joint translator, Chief translator and editor)

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

Alexander James O'Neill (Shaku Shingan) (Role: Sole translator)

Lulu, 2022 (ISBN: 9781458327123)
The Secrets of the Tathāgata: The Mahāyāna Sūtra on the Inconceivable Secrets of the Tathāgata

Alexander O'Neill (Shaku Shingan) (Role: Sole translator)

Lulu, 2021 (ISBN: 9781716238505)
Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts

Master Hsingyun (Chief Editor), Venerable Ruchang (Chief Editor) (Role: Translator/Editor, Editing and Translating)

Fo Guang Shan, Mar, 2013
Fo Guang Dictionary

(Role: Joint translator, Translation)

Fo Guang Shan

Participation ongoing since 2017.

Presentations

Reading the Ghanavyūha Sūtra in Light of The Enneads

Alexander O'Neill

First International Symposium on Buddhism & Neoplatonism, Oct 4, 2024
Transcendent Understanding: Rennyo’s Soteriology and Plotinus’ Dialectic in Dialogue

Alexander O'Neill

The 20th International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies Conference, Sep 28, 2024
On the Ghanavyūha Sūtra

Alexander O'Neill

Tokyo Buddhist Discussion Group, Sep 14, 2024
Introduction to Newar Buddhism

Alexander O'Neill

Musashino University: Center for the Study of Buddhist Cultures, Jun 12, 2024 Invited
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, Mar, 2024
Breaking the Textual Fourth Wall: On Paratextuality and Self-Referentiality in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature

Feb 18, 2024, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies Invited
Transkribus for Asian Languages

Alexander James O'Neill, Rachael Griffitths

Transkribus User Conference 24, Feb, 2024 Invited
Handwritten Text Recognition for Pracalit Script Manuscripts

Alexander James O'Neill

Transkribus User Conference 24, Feb, 2024
Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition for Minority Asian Languages

Alexander James O'Neill

Jan 19, 2024, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies Invited
Considerations on a Taxonomy of Mahāyāna Literature

2024, Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group
The Emergence of Egophoricity: NLP Pipeline for Diachronic Tibetan and Newar Corpus Analysis

Alexander James O'Neill, Christian Faggionato

Perspectives of Digital Humanities in the Field of Buddhism, 2023, Numata Zentrum für Buddhismuskunde & Khyentse Center for Tibetan Buddhist Textual Scholarship
Language Preservation through ASR

Alexander James O'Neill

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium, 2023
The Tathāgataguhya Sūtra

Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group, 2022
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, 2022, University of Toronto and Institute for Advanced Study Invited
Worship and Recitation of Mahāyāna Sūtras

2022 Religion Distinguished Lecture Series, 2022, Department of Religious Studies & the Religion Gradual Council Invited
The Worship of the Pañcarakṣā Sūtra in Nepal

Hidden Stories: Global History, Local Networks, 2022, Institute for Advanced Study Invited
Sonic Agency in Newar Buddhist Doctrine and Ritual

Mantras: Sound, Materiality, and the Body, 2022, 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 Singa-pore
The Centrality of the Prajñāpāramitā in the Development of the Newar Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna

Alexander James O'Neill

XIXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2022, International Association of Buddhist Studies

For the panel "Prajñāpāramitā and Esotericism: Mahāyāna vs. Vajrayāna?"
From the Perfection of Wisdom as an Attainment to a Goddess

2021, Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group
Living Books: Sūtra Worship in Newar Buddhism

2021, Department for the Study of Religion Invited
Orality, Literacy, and Agency in South Asian Book Worship

2021, Centre for South Asian Studies Invited
The Centrality of the Prajñāpāramitā in the Development of Newar and Mahāyāna Vajrayāna

2020, Tōkyō Buddhist Discussion Group
Pā Thyākegu and the Worship of Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature

2019, Lotus Research Centre Invited
The Ritual Worship of the Prajñāpāramitā in Nepal: An Historical Contextualisation

2019 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego, 2019, American Academy of Religion
Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Buddhism

2018, Historical Studies Department Invited
Newar Buddhist Book Worship

XLVIIth Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2018

For the panel "Sacred Spaces, Rituals and Objects of Worship of the Buddhist Newars in Nepal."
On the Origins of Newar Householder Monasticism

Conference for South Asian Religions, 2017
The Agency of Texts in Newar Buddhism

Alexander James O'Neill

XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, 2017, International Association of Buddhist Studies
Introduction to Newar Buddhism

2015, Historical Studies Department Invited
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Lines

2014, Historical Studies Department Invited

Major Teaching Experience

Apr, 2024 - Present

Buddhist Studies; SDGs (Musashino University)
Sep, 2015 - Mar, 2022

Religious Studies (University of Toronto)

Professional Memberships

2022 - Present

SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies
2022 - Present

UK Association for Buddhist Studies
2016 - Present

Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
2016 - Present

American Oriental Society
2016 - Present

Association for Asian Studies

Works

Newar Dialects Archive

Alexander James O'Neill

2023 - Present Database
Bibliography of Translations from Sanskrit Buddhist Texts into English

Alexander James O'Neill

2023 - Present Database
Ground Truth Model for Pracalit for Sanskrit and Newar MSS 16th to 19th C. Version 1.

Alexander James O'Neill

2022 - Present Database
Newar: XLSR-Wav2Vec2

Alexander James O'Neill

Feb, 2024 Software

A model for end-to-end speech recognition for endangered languages of Nepal

Research Projects

The Emergence of Egophoricity: a diachronic investigation into the marking of the conscious self

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) (UK), 2022 - 2026

Nathan Hill, Marieke Meelen, Alexander O'Neill
The Newar Online Dictionary

Social Sciencs and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Canada), 2019 - 2024

Christoph Emmrich, Andres Montano, Alexander O'Neill, Andrea Wollein, Austin Simoes-Gomes, Ian Turner, Than Grove
The Database of Religious History

Social Sciencs and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Canada), 2019
Once the Buddha Was a Girl: Girl Children and Young Women as Buddhist Agents in Burma and Nepal

Social Sciencs and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Canada), 2012 - 2016

Christoph Emmrich, Alexander O'Neill

Academic Activities

First International Symposium on Buddhism and Neoplatonism

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Planning/Implementing academic research

Musashino University, Sep 4, 2024 - Sep 6, 2024
Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies

Peer review

Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2024
Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies

Peer review

Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies, the University of British Columbia, 2024
ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Workshop for Endangered Languages

Planning, Management, etc., Planning/Implementing academic research

Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Jan, 2024
ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) for Marginalised Languages: A Network to Embrace Advanced Technologies in Fieldwork-Based Research (SCF)

Planning, Management, etc.

SOAS University of London & University of Cambridge, May, 2023

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Alexander O&#039;Neill

Profile Information

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Education

Awards

Papers

Misc.

Books and Other Publications

Presentations

Major Teaching Experience

Professional Memberships

Works

Research Projects

Academic Activities

Alexander O'Neill