Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
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Books
Origins of Moral-Political Philosophy in Early China
Oxford University Press
Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind
University of Hawaii Press
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip, edited by Tao Jiang and Philip J. Ivanhoe
Routledge
Papers
"Beyond Dust and Grime," in Aeon Magazine, 2022
"Detachment: A Trait-Reliabilist Virtue in Linji’s Chan Buddhism," in Ernest Sosa Encountering Chinese Philosophy, edited by Yong Huang, Bloomsbury, 2022
"Moral Therapy and the Imperative of Empathy: Mencius Encountering Slote," in Michael Slote Encountering Chinese Philosophy, edited by Yong Huang, Bloomsbury, 2020
"Ambivalence of Family and Disunity of Virtues in Mencius’ Political Philosophy," in Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture 33, 2020
"Character Is the Way: The Path to Spiritual Freedom in the Linji Lu" in Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy, edited by Youru Wang and Sandra Wawrytko, Springer, 2018
"Oneness and its Discontent: Contesting Ren in Classical Chinese Philosophy," in The Oneness Hypothesis: Beyond the Boundary of Self, edited by Philip J. Ivanhoe et. al., Columbia University Press, 2018
"The Problem of Authorship and the Project of Chinese Philosophy: ZHUANG Zhou and the Zhuangzi between Sinology and Philosophy in Western Academy," Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 15.1, 2016
"Incommensurability of Two Conceptions of Reality: Dependent Origination and Emptiness in Nāgārjuna’s MMK," Philosophy East and West 64.1, 2014
"Isaiah Berlin’s Challenge to the Zhuangzian Freedom," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 2012
"Two Notions of Freedom in Classical Chinese Thought: The Concept of Hua 化 in the Zhuangzi and the Xunzi," Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 10, 2011
"Linji and William James on Mortality: Two Visions of Pragmatism," in Mortality in Traditional China, edited by Amy Olberding and Philip J. Ivanhoe. SUNY, 2011
"The Dilemma of Skillful Means in Buddhist Pedagogy: Desire and Educations in the Lotus Sūtra," in Educations and Their Purposes: A Philosophical Dialogue among Cultures, edited by Roger Ames and Peter Hershock, University of Hawaii Press, 2007
"Intimate Authority: The Rule of Ritual in Classical Confucian Political Discourse," Chapter Two in Confucian Cultures of Authority in Practice: China, edited by Roger Ames and Peter Hershock. State University of New York Press, 2006
"Ālayavijñāna and the Problematic of Continuity in the Cheng Weishi Lun," Journal of Indian Philosophy 33:3, 2005
"Accessibility of the Subliminal Mind: Transcendence vs. Immanence," Continental Philosophy Review 38:3-4, 2005
"The Problematic of Continuity: Nishida Kitarō and Aristotle," Philosophy East & West 55:3, 2005
"The Storehouse Consciousness and the Unconscious: A Comparative Study of Xuan Zang and Freud on the Subliminal Mind," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 72:1, 2004
"The Role of History in Chan/Zen Enlightenment," Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy IV.1, 2004
"A Buddhist Scheme in Engaging Modern Science: The Case of Taixu (1890-1947)," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 29:4, 2002
"The Problematic of Whole/Part and the Horizon of the Enlightened in Huayan Buddhism," Journal of Chinese Philosophy 28:4, 2001
About Me
I am a professor in the Department of Religion and Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US.
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