Dan Arnold
is associate professor of philosophy of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religions (Columbia University Press, 2005), and of Brains, Buddhas, and Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific Philosophy of Mind (Columbia, 2012). He is currently working on an anthology of original translations from India’s Madhyamaka tradition of Buddhist philosophy.
Christian Coseru
works in the fields of philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cross-cultural philosophy, especially Indian and Buddhist philosophy in dialogue with Western (classical and contemporary) philosophy and cognitive science. Author of Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition in Buddhist Philosophy (OUP, 2012) and Moments of Consciousness (OUP forthcoming), his research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Australian Research Council.
Toru Funayama
is Professor in the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan. He specializes in medieval Chinese Buddhism in the Six Dynasties period, as well as in the scholastic tradition of the Yogācāra school of Indian Buddhism during the 6th through 10th centuries. His recent works include Rikuchō zuitō bukkyō tenkai shi (The Evolution of Chinese Buddhism during the Six Dynasties, Sui, and Tang Periods, Kyoto, 2019), Butten wa dou kan’yaku sareta no ka: Sūtora ga kyōten ni naru toki (Making Sutras into “Classics” [jingdian]: How Buddhist Scriptures Were Translated into Chinese. Tokyo, 2013), Kōsōden (a four-volume Japanese translation of the Biographies of Eminent Monks, co-authored with Yoshikawa Tadao. Tokyo, 2009–2010).
Ching Keng
Ph.D. (2009, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, National Taiwan University. His fields of research include Abhidharma, Yogācāra, and Tathāgatagarbha thought in India and China. Recently, his interests have also extended to the Buddhist philosophy of consciousness. He has been part of various research projects studying Dharmapāla’s commentaries on the Viṃśikā and on the Ālambanaparīkṣā, Wŏnch’uk’s commentary on the
Chen-kuo Lin
is Professor Emeritus of Buddhist Philosophy at National Chengchi University. He also serves as Director of the Sheng Yen Center for Chinese Buddhist Studies. Currently three research projects are under his supervision: (1) “An Annotated Translation of Dharmapāla’s Cheng weishi baosheng lun,” (2) “Mapping the Buddhist Scholasticism during the Edo Period,” and (3) “Re-examining the Philosophical Debate between Bhāviveka and Dharmapāla in the Sino-Indic Context.” His recent research focuses on logic, epistemology and hermeneutics in East Asian Buddhism. One of his recent publications is A Collection of the Rare Manuscripts of the Commentaries on Dignāga’s Ālamabanaparīkṣā in Early Modern East Asia (in Chinese), co-edited with Kaiting Jien (Kaohsiung: Fo Guang Publishing Co., 2018).
Shinya Moriyama
is a Professor of Philosophy at Shinshu University (Japan). His primary research focus is Buddhist epistemology and its religious significance, specifically focusing on Dharmakīrti and his successors. He is the author of Omniscience and Religious Authority: A Study on Prajñākaragupta’s Pramāṇavārttikālaṅkārabhāṣya ad Pramāṇavārttika II 8–10 and 29–33 (LIT Verlag, 2014). The East Asian yinming/inmyō tradition of Buddhist logic and epistemology has also been a focus of his research, a result of which is found in his edited book Transmission and Transformation of Buddhist Logic and Epistemology in East Asia (Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien, Universität Wien, 2020).
Robert H. Sharf
is D.H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as Chair of Berkeley’s Center for Buddhist Studies. He works primarily on medieval Chinese Buddhism but has also published in the areas of Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art and archaeology, Buddhist modernism, Buddhist philosophy, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002), and co-editor (with his wife Elizabeth) of Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context (2001).
works primarily in analytic Asian philosophy. He did his BA at University of Hawaii; his Ph.D. is from Yale. He retired from Seoul National University in 2012, having previously taught at Illinois State University. His current research interests lie in the intersection between classical Indian philosophy on the one hand, and analytic metaphysics and philosophy of language on the other. Among his more recent publications are Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons, 2nd edition (Ashgate, 2015) and, together with Shōryū Katsura, Nāgārjuna’s Middle Way: Mūlamadhyamakakārikā (Wisdom, 2013). A collection of his papers on Buddhist philosophy, Studies in Buddhist Philosophy, was published by Oxford in 2016.
John Spackman
is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Neuroscience at Middlebury College. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University, and also completed an M.A. at Columbia University in Religion. His work focuses on contemporary philosophy of mind and its intersections with Buddhist philosophy. He has published articles on such topics as debates concerning the nonconceptuality of perception and aesthetic experience, the structure of concepts, Nāgārjuna, and what contemporary work on the mind-body problem can learn from Buddhist philosophy. He is currently working on a book that develops an approach to the mind-body problem inspired by Madhyamaka Buddhist philosophy.
Roy Tzohar
is an associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. He specializes in Indian, and particularly in Buddhist, philosophy of language and mind; but has also published on the philosophy of emotions and on Indian poetics. He is the author of A Buddhist Yogācāra Theory of Metaphor (Oxford University Press, 2018), winner of the Toshihide Numata Award; and co-editor (with Maria Heim and Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi) of Emotions in Classical Indian Thought (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming).
Zhihua Yao
is Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Philosophy. His publications include Nonexistent Objects in Buddhist Philosophy: On Knowing What There is Not (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Brahman and Dao: Comparative Studies of Indian and Chinese Philosophy and Religion (co-edited with Ithamar Theodor, Lexington Books, 2014), The Buddhist Theory of Self-Cognition (Routledge, 2005) and numerous journal articles.