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Billy Brewster

Ernest B. Brewster is currently Research Associate at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Iona University, and Rutgers University. He received his doctorate from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2018. His research interests include combining philology with a philosophical and doctrinal-historical approach to key ideological developments in early medieval Chinese Buddhism. Among his publications are: “Saṅghabhadra's arguments for the existence of an intermediate state (antarābhava) between biological death and rebirth as translated by Xuanzang (602?–664 CE),” Religious Studies (2023), “Beyond Conventional Existence and Fundamental Emptiness: Kuiji’s Logical Analysis of Bhāviveka’s Two Inferences for the Emptiness of All Dharmas,” Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies (2023), “What Dies? Xuanzang on the Temporality of Physical and Mental Functionality,” International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture (2023). His current research investigates the philosophical contributions of Sinitic Madhyamaka Buddhist thinkers to the explanation of the nature of truth.

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