| The making of Buddhist modernism DL McMahan Oxford University Press, 2008 | 1504 | 2008 |
| Empty vision: Metaphor and visionary imagery in Mahayana Buddhism D McMahan Routledge, 2013 | 143 | 2013 |
| Modernity and the early discourse of scientific Buddhism DL McMahan Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72 (4), 897-933, 2004 | 135 | 2004 |
| Buddhism in the modern world DL McMahan Routledge, 2012 | 109 | 2012 |
| Meditation, Buddhism, and science D McMahan, E Braun Oxford University Press, 2017 | 106 | 2017 |
| How Meditation Works: Theorizing the Role of Cultural Context in Buddhist Contemplative Practice DL McMahan Meditation, Buddhism, and Science, 21-46, 2017 | 60* | 2017 |
| Orality, writing, and authority in South Asian Buddhism: visionary literature and the struggle for legitimacy in the Mahāyāna D McMahan History of religions 37 (3), 249-274, 1998 | 60 | 1998 |
| Buddhist modernism DL McMahan Buddhism in the modern world, 159-176, 2012 | 52 | 2012 |
| Mindful but not religious E Braun Meditation, Buddhism, and science, 173-197, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Buddhism, meditation, and global secularisms D McMahan Journal of Global Buddhism 18, 112-128, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| The making of modern Buddhism DL McMahan New York: Oxford University, 2008 | 29 | 2008 |
| Introduction: From Colonialism to Brainscans: Modern Transformations of Buddhist Meditation DL McMahan, E Braun Meditation, Buddhism, and Science, 1-20, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Buddhism and gender L Wilson Buddhism in the modern world, 257-272, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| The Enchanted Secular: Buddhism and the Emergence of Transtraditional" Spirituality" DL McMahan The Eastern Buddhist 43 (1/2), 205-223, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| A brief history of interdependence DL McMahan Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, 131-176, 2008 | 20 | 2008 |
| Buddhism and multiple modernities DL McMahan Buddhism beyond Borders: New Perspectives on Buddhism in the United States …, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Buddhism as the “Religion of Science”: From Colonial Ceylon to the Laboratories of Harvard DL McMahan Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science, 115-140, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| Rethinking meditation: Buddhist meditative practice in ancient and modern worlds DL McMahan Oxford University Press, 2023 | 12 | 2023 |
| Demythologization and the Core-versus-Accretions Model of Buddhism D McMahan The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies= IIJBS 5, 63-99, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Buddhism and Global Secularisms D McMahan Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West, 42-55, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
