Publications
2026
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2017
2022
“Buddhism and AI: Another Look,” in The Digital Orientalist, 03/23/2026.
“Remarks on a Crowned Man from Haḍḍa: Reconstructing a Lost Identity,” in East and West, 65, no. 2 (2025): 111-134.
“Pathways to nirvāṇa: Aquatic imagery and visual metaphors in Gandhāra,” in R. Ciattini et al. (eds), Metaphors. Conceptualising Horizons of Meaning, Annali di Ca’Foscari, Serie Orientale. Supplemento 61, forthcoming.
“The Architecture of Temple 6: Excavated Materials and Reconstruction,” in L.M. Olivieri, E. Iori, M. Minardi, M. Pinelli, ed. by A. Casalini, Vajirasthāna. Archaeology of the Barikot Hilltop (Swat, Pakistan), 3 Vols., Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2025, 136-134.
“Macrophase 8b: The Three Hares Roundel,” in L.M. Olivieri, E. Iori, M. Minardi, M. Pinelli, ed. by A. Casalini, Vajirasthāna. Archaeology of the Barikot Hilltop (Swat, Pakistan), 3 Vols., Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2025, 253-256.
with Nala Arcuri and Natalia Cecchini, “Macrophase 9a: A late Buddhist votive tablet,” in L. M. Olivieri, E. Iori, M. Minardi, M. Pinelli, ed. by A. Casalini, Vajirasthāna. Archaeology of the Barikot Hilltop (Swat, Pakistan), Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2025, 261-264.
with Gil Stein, Alejandro Gallego, Fabio Colombo and Elisa Pannunzio, “The NMA-ISAC Hadda Sculptural Project – Conserving and Restoring Early Buddhist Sculptures in the National Museum of Afghanistan,” in A. Vanleene, A. Marguier and V. Brice. (eds), Gandhāran Artists and Artisans. Representations of an Era of Religious Images. Proceedings of the International Colloquium held at the Université de Strasbourg, 23-24 March 2024, Université de Strasbourg, HisAAR, 2025, 191-213.
魏正中 (Giuseppe Vignato) and 房爱琳 (Alice Casalini)，“龟兹类型中心柱窟的独特性及其影响” (Kucha-type central pillar caves: Their characteristics and architectural influence) in 大足学刊 (Journal of Dazu Studies), 1/1 (2024): 91-106.
“On Buddhist Stupas and Visual Abundance,” in Nara to Norwich, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, 2024.
“Seven (not so) Easy Pieces: A Note on Some Found Objects from Gandhāra,” in Journal of Asian Civilizations, Vol. 46, no. 2 (2023): 55-86.
“Exposing a Visual System: Religious Experience in the Central Pillar Caves of Kucha,” in International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, Vol. 33, no. 1 (2023): 125-164.
with Giuseppe Vignato, “A Failed Transmission? The Case of the Central Pillar Caves in Kucha,” in Rivista degli Studi Orientali, XCV/3 (2022): 259-284.
“Response to Jaś Elsner, ‘Buddhapada: The Enlightened Being and the Limits of Representations at Amarāvatī’” in J. Elsner and R. Wood (eds.), Imagining the Divine: Exploring Art in Religions of Late Antiquity Across Eurasia, London, British Museum: 2021, 112-115.
“Archeologi cinesi alla riscoperta del buddhismo nel regno di Kucha [Chinese Archaeology and the re-discovery of the Buddhist kingdom of Kucha]” in G. Pedrini (ed.), Eurasiae. Venezia e le Vie della seta fra passato e presente, Vicenza: Editrice Veneta, 2017, 259-316.
Editing
2025
L.M. Olivieri, E. Iori, M. Minardi, M. Pinelli, ed. by A. Casalini, Vajirasthāna. Archaeology of the Barikot Hilltop (Swat, Pakistan), 3 Vols., Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2025.
“The Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan, 1956-1986 (Conference delivered in Islamabad on the 26th of October 1986 by Domenico Faccenna),” in Journal of Asian Civilizations, 45, 2 (2022): 1-38.
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