The Sūtra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by the Sǒn Monk Kihwa) (Paperback)

received his doctorate from the department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stony Brook in 1993. He is presently Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo. His main work lies in the fields of Korean Buddhism, East Asian Yog?c?ra, East Asian classical lexicography, and online scholarly resource development. Among his major book-length works are The S?tra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (SUNY Press, 1999) and W?nhyo's Philosophy of Mind(University of Hawai'i Press, 2012). He has also published over two dozen articles on Korean and East Asian Buddhism. He is the editor and primary translator of three volumes published in the Collected Works of Korean Buddhism, and is the Publication Chairman for the Numata BDK sutra translation project. Among the online digital projects he has initiated are the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb), the CJKV-English Dictionary, the H-Buddhism Buddhist Scholars Information Network, and recently, the H-Buddhism Bibliography Project.