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1 1 Curriculum Vitae Dr. Yao-ming Tsai Professor, Department of Philosophy National Taiwan University No.1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei Taiwan, 106 ROC Office Phone: (886-2) Website: ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT: * August 2012-present: Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University * August 2004-July 2012: Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University * August 2001-July 2004: Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Asian Humanities, Huafan University * February 1998-July 2001: Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Asian Humanities, Huafan University EDUCATION: * Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, December 1997 Group in Buddhist Studies (an inter-disciplinary program) * M.A., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, July 1987 Department of Philosophy * B.A., National Taiwan University, Taiwan, July 1981 Department of Sociology FIELDS OF SPECIALTY: Indo-Chinese Buddhism, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Philosophy of Life, Bioethics, Indian Philosophy ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: ====================== BOOKS: * Yao-ming Tsai, Philosophy of Life and Worldview from the Perspective of Buddhist Teachings, Taipei: Wen Chin Publishing, * Yao-ming Tsai, Research Methods and Academic Resources for Buddhist Studies, Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing, 2006.

2 2 * Yao-ming Tsai, An Open Path for Constructing Buddhology: Buddhist Doctrines of Meditation, Wisdom and Tathāgata-garbha, Taipei: Dharma Drum Publishing, * Yao-ming Tsai, The Teachings of Prajñāpāramitā and the Purification of the Buddhafield: Collected Papers on a Buddhist Approach to the World of Buddhism, Nantou: Right View Publications, ====================== JOURNAL ARTICLES: * Yao-ming Tsai, Neither Bereavement nor Grief: Coping with the Death of a Cherished Person in the Cunda-sutta, Contemporary Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Journal 17/2 (online 31 August 2016): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Contemporary Application of Buddhist Worldview for Understanding and Transforming Sentient Beings, International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture 26/1 (June 2016): * Yao-ming Tsai, The Tathāgata Within in Terms of Not-emptiness as a Framework for Understanding the Buddha s Declaration at the Time of Birth, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies 18 (June 2016): * Yao-ming Tsai, How the Education of the Buddhist Practices of Bodhisattvas Enacts Pertinent Practical Transformation of both Sentient Beings and Societies, Putuo Journal of Buddhist Studies 3 (January 2016): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Textual Reading and Philosophical Understanding of the Buddha s Declaration of the World s Foremost Achievement At the Time of Birth, Yuan Kuang Journal of Buddhist Studies 26 (December 2015): * Yao-ming Tsai, Sanskrit Texts Related to the Abhisamayâlaṅ-kāra: Some Preliminary Reflections, Dharma Light Monthly 311 (August 2015): 2-4. * Yao-ming Tsai, Non-dualistic Middle Path of the Kātyāyana-sūtra, Yuan Kuang Journal of Buddhist Studies 24 (December 2014): * Yao-ming Tsai, Language as an Instrument of Soteriological Transformation from the Madhyamaka Perspective, Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East 24/4 (November 2014): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Clarification of Ignorance and Everything by Way of Wisdom Endowed with Insight into Emptiness, Yuan Kuang Journal of Buddhist Studies 22 (December 2013): * Yao-ming Tsai, Perspectives on and Transformation of Sentient Beings from the Teachings of Prajñāpāramitā in the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 64 (March 2013): * Yao-ming Tsai, Inquiry into the Reasoning of Liberation of Buddhist Eight Levels of Liberation, Aletheia: NHU Journal of Philosophy and Life Education 24 (January 2013): * Yao-ming Tsai, Perspectives on Sentient Beings in light of Meditative Practices: Based on the Chapter the Ten Meditative Concentrations of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, Journal of Huayen Buddhism 3 (September 2012):

3 3 * Yao-ming Tsai, The Unfolding of Cognition into Human Beings and Detachedly Transcending the Human World Could be Doctrinally Coherent: Mainly Based on the Saṃyuktāgama, Tunghai Journal of Philosophy 17 (July 2012): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Philosophical Examination of Abiding-Places in terms of the Abiding of the Mind-Body Complex: Laying a Foundation for Buddhist Doctrine of Abiding-Places, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies 9 (December 2011): * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Philosophical Reflections on the Meaning of Life, Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter Quarterly 13/1 (December 2011): * Yao-ming Tsai, In Response to Diversified Religions in Modern Times: Buddhist Doctrine of Religious Inclusivism, Journal of Korean Buddhist Research Institute 59 (August 2011): * Yao-ming Tsai, How Is Real Abiding Possibly Founded on Non-abiding?: A Philosophical Inquiry Mainly Based on the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 57 (June 2011): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Buddhist Doctrine of Abiding-Places in terms of a Theoretical Foundation for the Abiding of the Mind-Body Complex, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 54 (September 2010): * Yao-ming Tsai, Understanding the Doctrine of Non-duality of Mind-body as Expressed in the Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra Through the Point of View of Removing Obstacles, Dharma Drum Journal of Buddhist Studies 6 (June 2010): * Yao-ming Tsai, The Philosophical Outreach and Literary Review of the Mind-Body Topic in Buddhist Studies, Yuan Kuang Journal of Buddhist Studies 15 (October 2009): * Yao-ming Tsai, On Existence/ Non-existence as Unqualified Metaphysical Concepts: Mainly Based on the Ghana-vyūha-sūtra and Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 50 (September 2009): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Worldview of One Dharma-dhātu, Examination of Abiding-places, and Inclusivism: The Ideas of Co-arising and Mutual Accomplishment in the Anūnatvâpūrṇatva-nirdeśa, Taiwan Journal of Buddhist Studies 17 (June 2009): * Yao-ming Tsai, Ethical Thinking in Coping with Sensual Desires from the Perspective of Progression on the Path to Enlightenment: Based on the 12th Assembly of the Sutras of the Perfection of Wisdom, Taiwan Journal of Buddhist Studies 14 (December 2008): * Yao-ming Tsai, Seeing as an Interface for Spiritual Cultivation towards an Open Path of Life: A Philosophical Inquiry based on the Diamond Sūtra, Yuan Kuang Journal of Buddhist Studies 13 (June 2008): * Yao-ming Tsai, Categories of Topics and Examples of Questions concerning Philosophy of Life: From Multiple Perspectives of Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, and Epistemology, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 44

4 4 (March 2008): * Yao-ming Tsai, Life and Philosophy of Life: Definition and Clarification, National Taiwan University Philosophical Review 35 (March 2008): * Yao-ming Tsai, Meditation Design in the Śūraṃgama-samādhi-Sūtra, Dharma Drum Journal of Humanities 3 (December 2006): * Yao-ming Tsai, Interpretative Approach to Navigating Concepts Concerning the Doctrine of Nondual Middle Way: Maneuver into Buddhist Approach to Unfolding Thorough Reality of the Life World, National Taiwan University Philosophical Review 32 (October 2006): * Yao-ming Tsai, Literary Review and Prospect of the Buddhist Philosophical Articles Published during : Mainly Based on the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies and Philosophy East and West, Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University 11 (July 2006): * Yao-ming Tsai, Reflections on Philological-Textual Studies and Its Application in Buddhist Studies, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 34 (September 2005): * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Doctrine of Neither Increase Nor Decrease in the Realm of Sentient Beings in the Anūnatvâpūrṇatva-nirdeśa: A Doctrinal Development from the Realm of Sentient Beings, Dharmadhātu, Dharmakāya, to Tathāgatagarbha, National Taiwan University Philosophical Review 28 (October 2004): * Yao-ming Tsai, Meditative Practices of the 15th Assembly of the Prajñāpāramitā- Sūtras, Chung-Hwa Buddhist Journal 17 (July 2004): * Yao-ming Tsai, Deciphering the Extant Prefaces and Postscripts to the Śūraṃgamasamādhi-Sūtra: In the Light of the Study of the Textual Background to the Sūtra, Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University 8 (July 2003): * Yao-ming Tsai, A Step-by-Step Guide for the Research Process in Buddhist Studies, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 25 (June 2003): * Yao-ming Tsai, The Teaching of Buddha Akṣobhya according to the Sutras of the Perfection of Wisdom: A Manifestation of the Purification of the Buddha Field, Yuan Kuang Journal of Buddhist Studies 7 (December 2002): * Yao-ming Tsai, Towards an Understanding of the Dharma-door of Non-duality in the Āgama-sūtra and the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra, Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University 7 (July 2002): * Yao-ming Tsai, Multiple Functions of Meditative Practices on the Path to Emancipation in the Āgama-sūtra, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 20 (March 2002): * Yao-ming Tsai, Environmental Ethics based on the Purification of the Buddha Field according to the Sutras of the Perfection of Wisdom, Legein Semi-Annual Journal 25 (December 2000): * Yao-ming Tsai, Teaching in accordance with the Students Aptitudes and the

5 5 Distinction between Oneself and Others according to the Analects of Confucius, the Āgamas, and the Sutras of the Perfection of Wisdom, Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University 5 (July 2000): * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Manuscripts in Sanskrit Found at Gilgit: Remarks from the perspective of Buddhist Studies, Satyābhisamaya: A Buddhist Studies Quarterly 20 (June 2000): * Yao-ming Tsai, Toward a Professional Study of the Buddhist Religion, Philosophical Forum 32 (May 2000): * Yao-ming Tsai, Purification in the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā, Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University 4 (July 1999): * Yao-ming Tsai, Controversy over the Geographical Origins of Mahāyāna: A Criticism, Journal of the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University 3 (July 1998): * Yao-ming Tsai, Bodhisattva-niyāma in the Context of the Three Pathways as Depicted in the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra, Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica 7/1 (March 1997): ====================== CHAPTERS IN BOOKS/ ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: * Yao-ming Tsai, Perspectives on the Person and the Self in Vasubandhu s Abhidharmakośabhāṣya, Text, History, and Philosophy: Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions, edited by Bart Dessein and Weijen Teng, Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2016, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Practices concerning Animal Ethics of the Ratnakūṭa-sūtra, in Humanistic Buddhism of Master Hsing Yun in 2015: Theory & Practice, edited by Gong-rang Cheng and Ven. Miao Fan, Kaohsiung: Foguang Cultural Enterprise, 2016, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Caring about Animals and Liberating Animals: Animal Ethics with Both Immanent and Transcendent Dimensions, in Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on the Cultivation of Inner Alchemy and Meditation, edited by Center for General Education, Kaohsiung: Center for General Education, Cheng Shiu University, 2016, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Soteriological Unfolding of the Mind, Body and Abiding-Places in the Samanta-mukha-parivarta of the Lotus Sūtra, in Kumārajīva: Philosopher and Seer, edited by Shashibala, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, 2015, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, What is Caring about Life and How to Be Caring about Life, in Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on the Cultivation of Inner Alchemy and Meditation, edited by Center for General Education, Kaohsiung: Center for General Education, Cheng Shiu University, 2015, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, On Justifying the Choice of Mahāyāna among Multiple Paths in Buddhist Teachings: Based on the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras, Scripture:Canon::Text:Context -- Essays Honoring Lewis R. Lancaster, ed. by

6 6 Richard Payne, 2014, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, How Does an Empty Buddhist Bioethics Work: The Example of Abortion, in the Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Applied Ethics and Applied Philosophy in East Asia, Kobe: Project Innovative Ethics, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, 2014, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Human Life from the Perspective of Buddhist Medicine: A Philosophical Inquiry Based on the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa-sūtra, in The Conception of the Human Person in Medicine: Exploring Boundaries between Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, edited by Lukas Kaelin, Yao-ming Tsai and et al., Vienna: Verlag Österreich, 2013, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Meditative Practices as the Abiding of the Mind-Body Complex: From the Clue of Basic Ideas and Key Concepts, in Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on the Cultivation of Inner Alchemy and Meditation, edited by Center for General Education, Kaohsiung: Center for General Education, Cheng Shiu University, 2012, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, An Unfolding of the Mind, Body and Abiding-Places as Superlative as Possible: A Philosophical Inquiry Mainly Based on the Samanta-mukhaparivarta, in A Connoisseur Looks at the Bodhisattva, edited by Yuan Kuang Institute of Buddhist Studies, Chung-li: Yuan Kuang Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2011, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Basic Principles for Choosing among Multiple Paths in Buddhist Teachings: Based on the 4th & 16th Assemblies of the Prajñāpāramitā-Sūtras, in Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies in 2008: Buddhism and Contemporary Humanistic Concerns, edited by Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist Culture & Education, Kaohsiung: Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist Culture & Education, 2008, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, The Doctrine of Seeing the Tathāgata in the Diamond Sutra, in Humanistic Base Texts and Mahāyāna Sūtras, edited by Märt Läänemets, Tartu: Centre for Oriental Studies, University of Tartu, 2008, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, Buddhist Perspectives on Environmental Ethics, in Collected Essays in World Religions and Ethics, edited by Chuen-jen Yang, Chungli: Center for General Education, National Central University, 2006, pp * Yao-ming Tsai, The Formation of Vehicles and the Proposition of the Three Vehicles in the Sutras of the Perfection of Wisdom, Special Edition of the 11th International Conference on Buddhist Education and Culture, edited by Huafan University Press, Taipei: Huafan University Press, 2000, pp RESEARCH GRANTS * August 2015 July 2016: Grant from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Philosophical Construction of Emptiness, Nonduality and Suchness in the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras MOST H

7 7 * August 2012 July 2015: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Perspectives on and Transformation of Sentient Beings in Buddhist Life Medicine and Life Cultivation NSC H MY3 * August 2009 July 2012: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled The Doctrine of Abiding-Places and the Cultivation of Real Abiding of the Mind-Body Complex in Buddhist Scriptures NSC H MY3 * August 2007 July 2009: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Doctrine of Reality Epitomized as Non-duality of Mind- Body in the Lankavatara Sutra: Critical Inquiry into the Mind-Body Topic as the Main Strand NSC H MY2 * August 2006 July 2007: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Integration and Construction of Internet Resources on Sanskrit Language and Sanskrit Buddhist Texts NSC H * August 2004 July 2005: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Research into Methods of Buddhist Philology NSC H * August 2003 July 2004: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Permanent Abiding of the Tathāgata in the Anūnatvâpūrṇatva-nirdeśa NSC H * August 2002 July 2003: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled Meditative Practices of the 15th Assembly of the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras: Also Referring to the Śūraṃgama-samādhi-sūtra NSC H * August 2000 July 2001: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled The Purification of the Buddha-field in the Prajñāpāramitā-sūtras NSC H * August 1999 July 2000: Grant from National Science Council, Taiwan R.O.C., on the research project entitled The Gilgit Manuscript of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā: Folios124b-210b NSC H DOCTORAL DISSERTATION: * Yao-ming Tsai, Searching for the Origins of Mahāyāna and Moving toward a Better Understanding of Early Mahāyāna, University of California at Berkeley, December Thesis advisor: Professor Lewis R. Lancaster. COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT: Sanskrit Guide to Writing Philosophical Essays Introduction to Buddhism Buddhist Inquiry into Life Buddhist Ethics of Life Seminar in Buddhist Path to Emancipation Seminar in Buddhist Path to Enlightenment

8 8 Seminar in Buddhist Prajñāpāramitā Seminar in the Mādhyamika School of Philosophy Seminar in Buddhist Doctrine of Consciousness-Only Seminar in Tathāgatagarbha s Philosophy of Life Philosophical Reading of the Vimalakīrti-nirdeśa Buddhist Philosophy of Meditative Practices Philosophical Inquiry into Evil and Karma Buddhist Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Religion