Ven. Master Shen Yen 聖嚴法師

Ven. Master Shen is the Institute's founder. He holds a Litt.D. from Rissho University, Japan.

Specialties: Late Ming Dynasty Buddhism, comparative religions, ethics and Vinaya, meditational techniques, Buddhist Pure Land

Publications:

• A Survey of Chinese Buddhism's History—A History of Esoteric Buddhism / Dong Chu (1993)
• Indian-cum-Tibetan Buddhism / Dong Chu (1993)
• An Introduction to Buddhism of the World / Dong Chu (1983)
• A History of Esoteric Buddhism / by Toganō, Shōun; tr. Ven. Shen Yen / Dong Chu(1992)
• Chinese Buddhism of the Late Ming Dynasty: Particularly Focusing on Zhi Xu (Japanese) / tr. Ven. Shen Yen / Shan Xi Fang (1975)
• The Entire Corpus of Dharma Drum 1~9 compilations totaling 72 volumes

Approximately 130 volumes in Chinese, English, and Japanese.

Prof. Lee Chih-fu 李志夫所長

Lee Chih-fu holds an M.A. from Benares Hindu University.

Specialties: History of Indian thought and culture, Tiantai Buddhism, Buddhist Consciousness-only school

• A History of Indian Ideology and Culture / Taipei, Sanmin Bookstore, 1995
• Indian Philosophy and Its Basic Essence / Taipei, Hong Ye, 1997
• Indian Modern Philosophy / Taipei, the Hwa-gun Publishing House, 1977
• Bharatitirtha's Philosophy:
  A Later Period of Indian Vedanta School / Taipei, Shang Wu, 1975
• An Introduction to Indian Philosophy (Book Review)/Taipei, the National Institute for Compilation and Translation, You Shi, 1974
• A General History of India (Translated Work) / Taipei, the National Institute for Compilation and Translation, 1981
• A Comparative Study of the Buddhist Studies of China and India / Historical Relics Agency of Taipei City, 1986; Beijing, the Publishing House of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Reprint 2001
• Lengyan Revised and Annotated / Taipei, Mahayana Vihara, 1984
• A Study of Mohe zhiguan /2001
• An Introduction to Logic / Taipei, the Hwa-gun Publishing House, 1974
• A Study of Fa hua xuan yi, Taipei, the Compiling and Authoring Agency of Buddhist Literature, 1997

He has authored over fifty academic papers.

Ven. Huimin 惠敏法師

Ven. Huimin holds a Litt.D. from the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Specialties: Vijñapti-mātratā, Samādhi

Publications:

• From "the Theory of Seeds" of "Śrāvaka Stage" to See Some Traits of Buddhist Ethics; Ven. Hong Yi
• Middle Way and Yoga
• A Study of Meditative Objects
• A Study of Buddhist Doctrine / An Anthology of Mizuno Kogen's Works, Volume II (translated work)
• An Introduction to the Śamatha-vipaśyanā of Mahāyāna: An Initial Exploration of the Sanskrit Version's Chapter on Teaching and Admonishing of the Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra
• The Viewpoint of Life's Origin: An Initial Exploration of the Sanskrit Version of the Prasannapadā's 26th Chapter on Observing Twelve Zhi Xi
• Śīla & Vinaya and the Path of Meditation
• Starting Phases of Sanskrit

Ven. Guo Che 果徹法師

Ven. Guo Che holds a B.A. in Chinese Literature from Soochow University and is a graduate of the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies.

Specialties: Sanskrit language; Candrakirti's Prasannapadā

Publications:

• The Viewpoint of Life's Origin: An Initial Exploration of the Sanskrit Version of the Prasannapadā’s 26th Chapter on Observing Twelve Zhi Xi
• A Translation of and An Annotation on the Sanskrit Version of the Prasannapadā’s 26th Chapter on Observing Twelve Zhi Xi
• A Brief Chronicle of Ven. Dong Chu

Ven. Jian Hong 見弘法師

Ven. Jian Hong holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Kyushu University, Japan.

Specialties: Sanskrit, Tibetan, Japanese, Indian Mādhyamika, History of Indian Buddhism

Publications:

• 中觀派における世 俗諦について－－特に『入中論』を中心として
• 《入菩提行論細疏》第九章の研究と譯注

Marcus Bingenheimer 馬德偉老師

Marcus Bingenheimer holds a Dr. Phil. from the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Specialties: Contemporary Buddhist History, Digital Religious Text

Monographs:

• 2004: Der Mönchsgelehrte Yinshun (*1906) und seine Bedeutung für den Chinesisch-Taiwanischen Buddhismus im 20. Jahrhundert. [The Scholar Monk Yinshun – His Relevance for the Development of Chinese and Taiwanese Buddhism.] Heidelberg: Edition Forum (Würzburger Sinologische Schriften).
• 2001: A Biographical Dictionary of the Japanese Student-Monks of the Seventh and Early Eighth Centuries. Their Travels to China and their Role in the Transmission of Buddhism. München: Iudicium (Buddhismus-Studien / Buddhist Studies 4).

Chen Ing-shann 陳英善老師

Chen Ying-shann holds a Ph.D. from Chinese Culture University.

Specialties: Tiantai, Huayan

Publications:

• Tian Tai's Bhūta-tathatā Theory of Pratītya-samutpāda and Madhyamā- pratipad / Chen Ying-shan / Dong Chu (1995)
• Huayan's Pratītya-samutpāda Theory of Inexhaustible Dharma-realm / Chen Ying-shan / Huayen Lotus Society (1996)
• Tian Tai's Thought of Inherent Tathatā / Dong Da (1997)

She has authored thirty academic papers.

Chen Meei-hwa 陳美華老師

Chen Meei-hwa holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Temple University

Specialties: Methodology for Researching Buddhist studies, Women's studies, and Comparative Philosophy East and West

Publications:

• Encountering Modernity—the Visibility of Postwar Taiwanese Nuns

Chen Yaw-shin 陳又新老師

Chen Yaw-xin holds a Ph.D. in History from National Taiwan Normal University.

Specialties: History of Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist texts in Tibetan translation

Publications:

• Tibet during the Early Period of the Ching Dynasty

Friedrich Grohmann 高明道老師

Friedrich Grohmann is a Doctorial Candidate at National Taiwan Normal University.

Specialties: Buddhist philology, Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra, and Mahā-ratnakūta-sūtra

Publications:

• A Study of Translating Ru lai zhi in san mei jing

Eric Goodell 郭瑞老師

Eric Goodell holds an M.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Buddhist Studies from the Postgraduate Institute of Pali and Buddhist Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. He is currently working on his Ph. D. at the University of Virginia. His dissertation topic is Ven. Taixu and contemporary Chinese Buddhism.

Kuan Tse-fu 關則富老師

Tse-fu Kuan holds a D. Phil. from the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Specialties: Early Buddhism, Pali

Publications:

• An Introduction to Śamatha-vipaśyanā of the Mahāyāna: An Initial Exploration of the Chapter on Teaching and Instruction of the Mahāyāna-sūtrālamkāra in Sanskrit (co-authored with Ven. Huimin), Taipei: Dharma Drum Culture, 1997.
• "The Four Satipaṭṭhānas in Early Buddhism", Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly, vol. 17, June 2001.
• "Saññā and Sati", Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly, vol. 32, March 2005.
• "Clarification on Feelings in Buddhist Dhyāna / Jhāna Meditation", Journal of Indian Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 3, June 2005.

Huang Yi-hsun 黃繹勳老師

Huang Yi-hsun holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.

Specialties: History of Chinese Buddhism and Chan Buddhsim

Publications:

• "Integrating Chinese Buddhism: A Study of Yongming Yanshou’s Guanxin Xuanshu ?"(forthcoming from DDM Publishing Corp. January 2006)

Monographs:

• "Huayan Thought in Yongming Yanshou’s (904–975) Guanxin xuanshu: Six Characteristics and Ten Profound Gates" (forthcoming in 2006)

Periodicals:

• "A Study of the Fourteenth Fascicle of the Chuandeng yuying ji", July 2005.

Lan Pi-chu 藍碧珠老師

Lan Pi-chu holds an M.A. from the University of Sai Tama, Japan.

Specialties: Japanese

Publications:

• An Antithetic Study of Japanese "OMOU, KANGAERU" and Chinese "Think, Feel, and Consider" (Japanese)
• The Decisive Confrontation of CI Image, translated work

Liao Ben-sheng 廖本聖老師

Liao Ben-sheng holds an M.A. in Chemistry from Tamkang University, and is a graduate of the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies.

Specialties: Tibetan Language and Philosophical Literature

Publications:

• A Fundamental Study of Grammatical Teaching Materials on the Classic Tibetan Language

William Magee 馬紀老師

William Magee holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.

Specialties: Classical Tibetan Literature and Grammar, Indian and Tibetan Philosophical systems

Publications:

• Fluent Tibetan: A Proficiency Oriented Language Learning System in Four Volumes (with Elizabeth Napper; Snow Lion Publications)
• The Nature of Things: Emptiness and Essence in Geluk Buddhism (Snow Lion Publications)

He has published eight articles about Tibetan Buddhism.

Tsai Po-lang 蔡伯朗老師

Tsai Po-lang holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Chinese Culture University.

Publications:

• Consciousness-only's Three Natures of Perception and Truthfulness—with the Focus on the Madhyanta-vibhaga-tika
• The Three Natures Theory of Consciousness-only’s Treatises

Tu Aming 杜正民老師

Aming Tu studied Buddhism at the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies.

Specialties: Buddhist studies in English, Buddhist Hermeneutical Methodology, Tathāgatagarbha, Introduction of Electronic Buddhist Scriptures.

Publications:

• Peaceful Thought of Buddhism / Xu Min-in, Aming Tu / John Paul II Peace Institute (1998)
• The Database of Buddhist Network of National Taiwan University / editor
• A Historiette of Tathāgatagarbha Research (Volume One) (Volume Two)

He has authored thirty-six academic and technical papers.

Tu Yu-chan 凃玉盞老師

Tu Yu-chan holds a Ph.D. in Asian Cultures from the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Specialties: Chinese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Comparison of Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Language, Japan’s History and Culture

Publications:

• An Introduction to Tiantai Thought / by Dr. Kamata Shigeo; tr. Tu Yu-zhan
• A History of Korean Buddhism / by 愛宕顯昌; tr. Tu Yu-zhan

Yang Yu-wen 楊郁文老師

Yang Yu-wen holds a B.A. in Medical Science from Kaohsiung College of Medicine.

Specialties: Chinese Āgama Literature and Pāli texts

Publications:

• Foguang Tripitaka— the Pitaka of the Āgmas / exam. & rev., (1983)
• Foguang Dictionary / exam. & rev., (1988)
• An Outline of the Āgmas / Yang Yu-wen / Dong Chu, (1993)
• Breathing Dhyāna in Life: Āgnāna / Yang Yu-wen / Gan Lu Dao, (Oct., 2001)
• Four Mindfulnesses in Life: the Sūtra of the Buddha Preaching Mindfulness / Yang Yu-wen / Gan Lu Dao, (Oct., 2001)
• Seeing through Pratītya-samutpāda, Ātman, Anātman, and Sūnyatā from Engaged Buddhist Dharmas / Yang Yu-wen / Gan Lu Dao, (Aug., 2000)
• The Annotation on the Accompanying Thought Sūtra of Buddhist Sacred Places / ed. & annot. Yang Yu-wen / Gan Lu Dao, (Sept., 2000)
• Maitrī, Karunā, and Vyavasarga-rata—the Sequential Unfolding of Noble Conscience / Gan Lu Dao, (Oct., 2001)
• The Annotation on the Longer Āgama Sūtra of Wander / Gan Lu Dao, (Aug., 1994)
• The Accompanying Thought Sūtra of Buddhist Sacred Places / 1-9 volumes / Gan Lu Dao, (Oct., 2001)
• The Dīgha-nikāya of the Pāli Canon, 1-3 volumes in Chinese version, etc..

13 academic papers in total.