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A. Charles Muller

A. Charles Muller presently teaches Buddhism at Musashino University, where he moved in April 2019, after teaching eleven years at the University of Tokyo, and fourteen years at Toyo Gakuen University. He is the founder and chief editor of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, its companion Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Vietnamese/English Dictionary. He is also the founder and managing editor of the scholarly network H-Buddhism. His primary fields of research are Korean Buddhism and East Asian Yogācāra/Tathāgatagarbha thought, along with occasional forays into Zen, Confucianism, and Daoism. He is also deeply involved in the work of translating Buddhist canonical texts into English, serving in the capacity of Publications Chairman for BDK America. Major recent publications include a translation of The Brahma's Net Sutra (2017), Korea's Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatises of Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong) and Hamhŏ Tŭkt’ong (Kihwa) (2015), A Korean-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terms (2014), and Wŏnhyo's Philosophy of Mind (2011). A full listing of his books and articles on these topics can be accessed through his personal web site, Resources for East Asian Language and Thought.

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