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Notes on ContributorsJames Blumenthal is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at OregonState University and founding faculty member at Maitripa College, Portland. He is theauthor of numerous articles and books on Buddhism, including The Ornament of theMiddle Way: A Study of the Madhyamaka Thought of Śāntarakṣita (Snow Lion, 2004),editor of Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture (University ofWisconsin Press, 2006), and co-author (with Geshe Lhundup Sopa) of Steps on the Pathto Enlightenment: A Commentary on Tsongkhapa’s Lamrim Chenmo, Vol. 4: Samatha(Wisdom, 2012). In 2004 he had the honor of translating Nāgārjuna’s “Sixty Stanzasof Reasoning” for His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his public lectureson the text in Pasadena, California.David Burton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studiesat Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK. Along with a number of articles, hehas published two books: Buddhism, Knowledge and Liberation: A Philosophical Study(Ashgate, 2004) and Emptiness Appraised: A Critical Study of Nāgārjuna’s Philosophy(RoutledgeCurzon, 1999).Christian Coseru is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at theCollege of Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of several articles on Buddhistphilosophy and a book, Perceiving Reality: Consciousness, Intentionality, and Cognition inBuddhist Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012).David Cummiskey is Professor of Philosophy at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine. He isthe author of Kantian Consequentialism (Oxford University Press, 1996), and his recentarticles include “Competing Conceptions of the Self in Kantian and Buddhist MoralTheories,” in Cultivating Personhood: Kant and Asian Philosophy (Walter de Gruyter,2010), “The Law of Peoples,” in The Morality and Global Justice Reader (Westview Press,2011), and “Dignity, Contractualism, and Consequentialism,” in Utilitas, 20/4 (2008).Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland.Among his books are Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (NorthwesternUniversity Press, 2007); co-edited with Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth, Japaneseand Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana University Press,xi

notes on contributors2011); and co-edited with Fujita Masakatsu, Sekai no naka no Nihon no tetsugaku (Japanese Philosophy in the World) (Showado, 2005). He has also published numerousarticles in English and in Japanese on continental and comparative philosophy, on theKyoto School, and on Zen.Jake H. Davis is a doctoral student in philosophy and cognitive science at the GraduateCenter of the City University of New York, visiting faculty at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Massachusetts, and a visiting scholar in psychiatry at Brown University.He trained in Buddhist theory and meditative practice under the meditation masterSayadaw U Pandita of Burma and served for a decade as an interpreter between Burmeseand English for meditation retreats in Burma and abroad.Douglas Duckworth is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy andHumanities at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of Mipam on BuddhaNature: The Ground of the Nyingma Tradition (SUNY Press, 2008) and Jamgön Mipam: HisLife and Teachings (Shambhala, 2011). He also translated Bötrül’s Distinguishing theViews and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan BuddhistClassic (SUNY Press, 2011).William Edelglass is Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies at MarlboroCollege, Vermont. Previously he taught at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala, India. He has published widely in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist philosophy,environmental philosophy, and contemporary continental philosophy. He is co-editorof the journal Environmental Philosophy and of Facing Nature: Levinas and EnvironmentalPhilosophy (Duquesne University Press, 2012), Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings(Oxford University Press, 2009), and The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy (2010).Alan Fox is Professor of Asian and Comparative Philosophy and Religion in thePhilosophy Department at the University of Delaware. He has published on ChineseBuddhism and philosophical Daoism. His publications include “Self-Reflection in theSanlun Tradition: Madhyamika as the Deconstructive Conscience of Buddhism,” inthe Journal of Chinese Philosophy (March 1992), “Process Ecology and ‘Ideal Dao,’”in the Journal of Chinese Philosophy (March 2005), and “Dushun’s Huayan Fajie GuanMen (Meditative Approaches to the Huayana Dharmadātu),” in Buddhist Philosophy: Essential Readings (Oxford University Press, 2009).Brendan S. Gillon is Professor of Linguistics at McGill University. He has researchinterests in the history of logic and metaphysics in India, Sanskrit linguistics, andnatural language semantics, and has published extensively in all of these areas. He iseditor of Logic in Earliest Classical India (Motilal Banarsidass, 2010) and co-editor ofSemantics: A Reader (Oxford University Press, 2004). In collaboration with RichardHayes, he has translated the first 38 verses and their prose commentary of Dharmakīrti’s Svarthanumana chapter of the Pramanavarttika.Charles Goodman is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and theDepartment of Asian and Asian-American Studies at Binghamton University. He isthe author of several published articles on Buddhist philosophy and of the bookConsequences of Compassion: An Interpretation and Defense of Buddhist Ethics (OxfordUniversity Press, 2009).xii

notes on contributorsChristopher W. Gowans is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is theeditor of Moral Disagreements (Routledge, 2000) and Moral Dilemmas (Oxford UniversityPress, 1989) and the author of Philosophy of the Buddha (Routledge, 2003).Ronald S. Green is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina. He is an editor of abook series on religions and social engagement which includes Buddhist Roles inPeacemaking: How Buddhism can Contribute to Sustainable Peace (Blue Pine Books, 2009).His research focuses on East Asian developments of Yogācāra and tantric Buddhistphilosophy.Rita M. Gross, before her retirement, was for twenty-five years Professor of Comparative Studies in Religion at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. She is a well-knownDharma teacher and the author of many books and articles. Her best-known books areBuddhism after Patriarchy (SUNY Press, 1993), Feminism and Religion: An Introduction(Beacon Press, 1996), and A Garland of Feminist Reflections: Forty Years of ReligiousExploration (University of California Press, 2009). She was co-editor of Buddhist–Christian Studies for ten years and has been active in inter-religious discussion.Georgios T. Halkias is Research Fellow and Coordinator of Religions of Central Asiaat the Centre of Religious Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum and a Fellow at theOxford Centre of Buddhist Studies. Among his publications are Luminous Bliss: A Religious History of Pure Land Literature in Tibet (University of Hawai‘i Press) and a numberof articles on Tibetan and Central Asian Buddhism and history and interdisciplinarystudies in religion.Peter Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Sunderlandin the UK. His research focuses on early Buddhist thought and practices and Buddhistethics. He is the editor of Buddhist Studies Review and the author of An Introduction toBuddhism: Teachings, History and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 1990, 2nd edn2012), The Selfless Mind: Personality, Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism(Curzon Press, 1995), and An Introduction to Buddhist Ethics: Foundations, Values andPractices (Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is currently working on SpiritualNobility in Early Buddhism: Noble Path, Noble Persons, and the Four True Realities thatThey See.Richard P. Hayes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico.He earned his doctorate in Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Toronto. Hehas taught in the departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University ofToronto and McGill University and as Numata guest professor of Buddhism at LeidenUniversity.Maria Heim is Associate Professor of Buddhist Studies at Amherst College, Massachusetts. She holds a BA from Reed College and a PhD in Sanskrit and Indian studiesfrom Harvard University. She works on South Asian Buddhism, particularly onTheravāda, and is currently focusing on the thought of Buddhaghosa. She is interestedin moral psychology and is completing a book on Theravāda understandings ofagency and intention in the different canonical and commentarial genres of the Pāliliterature.xiii

notes on contributorsSteven Heine is Professor of Religious Studies and History as well as Associate Directorof the School of International and Public Affairs and Director of Asian Studies atFlorida International University. His research specialty is the origins and developmentof Zen Buddhism, especially the life and teachings of Dōgen, founder of the Sōtō sect.He has published two dozen books, including The Zen Poetry of Dōgen (Tuttle, 1997)and, with Oxford University Press, Opening a Mountain (2002), Did Dōgen Go to China?(2006), Zen Masters (2010), and Dōgen: Textual and Historical Studies (2012).Peter D. Hershock is Director of the Asian Studies Development Program at theEast–West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. His research has focused mainly on usingBuddhist conceptual resources to address contemporary issues. Among his booksare Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch’an Buddhism (SUNYPress, 1996), Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (SUNYPress, 1999), Chan Buddhism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005), Buddhism in thePublic Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence (Routledge, 2006), and Valuing Diversity: Buddhist Reflection on Realizing a More Equitable Global Future (SUNY Press, 2012).John J. Holder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Norbert College, Wisconsin.He is the author of Early Buddhist Discourses (Hackett, 2006), a volume containingEnglish translations of Pāli discourses that are essential for the study of early Buddhistphilosophy. He has also published articles on early Buddhist epistemology, ethics, andsocial theory. His research focus is on comparative philosophy, specifically comparingearly Buddhism and classical American pragmatism with the aim of developing a naturalistic theory of aesthetics and religious meaning.Simon P. James is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Durham University in the UK. Heis the author of Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics (Ashgate, 2004), The Presenceof Nature: A Study in Phenomenology and Environmental Philosophy (Palgrave, 2009), and(with David E. Cooper) Buddhism, Virtue and Environment (Ashgate, 2005).Stephen Jenkins is Professor of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University. Hisresearch is focused on Buddhist concepts of compassion, their philosophical grounding,and their ethical implications. His current work explores these themes in justificationsof warfare, penal codes, compassionate killing, tantric sādhanas for killing, and theAśokan edicts.Matthew T. Kapstein is currently Director of Tibetan Studies at the École Pratiquedes Hautes Études in Paris and Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies in theDivinity School of the University of Chicago. His publications include The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory (Oxford University Press,2000), Reason’s Traces: Identity and Interpretation in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Thought(Wisdom, 2001), The Tibetans (Blackwell, 2006), and, in the Clay Sanskrit Series, TheRise of Wisdom Moon (New York University Press, 2009).Damien Keown is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist Ethics at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His main research interests are theoretical and applied aspects ofBuddhist ethics, with particular reference to contemporary issues. He is the authorof many books and articles, among them The Nature of Buddhist Ethics (Palgrave,2001), Buddhism and Bioethics (Palgrave, 2001), Buddhism: A Very Short Introductionxiv

notes on contributors(Oxford University Press, 2000), Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (OxfordUniversity Press, 2006), and the Oxford Dictionary of Buddhism (2003). In 1994 hefounded the Journal of Buddhist Ethics with Charles S. Prebish, with whom he also cofounded the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism Series, and co-edited the RoutledgeEncyclopedia of Buddhism.Sallie B. King is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University,Virginia. She is the author of Buddha Nature (SUNY Press, 1991), Journey in Search ofthe Way: The Spiritual Autobiography of Satomi Myodo (SUNY Press, 1993), Being Benevolence: The Social Ethics of Engaged Buddhism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2005), andSocially Engaged Buddhism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009). She is co-editor (withChristopher S. Queen) of Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia(SUNY Press, 1996) and (with Paul O. Ingram) of The Sound of Liberating Truth: Buddhist–Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng (Curzon Press, 1999).Anne Carolyn Klein is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University and a foundingdirector and resident teacher of the Dawn Mountain Center, Houston. Her work centerson the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and its Indian roots, with a special interest in theinterplay between intellectual understanding and contemplative practice. She isthe author or translator of six books, notably Heart Essence of the Vast Expanse: A Storyof Transmission (Snow Lion, 2010) and the recently republished Meeting the Great BlissQueen (Snow Lion, 2008).Karen C. Lang is Professor of Indian Religions in the Department of ReligiousStudies and two-time Director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the Universityof Virginia. Her publications include Four Illusions: Candrakīrti’s Advice for Travelerson the Bodhisattva Path (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Āryadeva’s Catuḥśataka: Onthe Bodhisattva’s Cultivation of Merit and Knowledge (Akademisk Forlag, 1986), as wellas numerous articles on Buddhist philosophy and literature. She has been a memberof the team that produced the first English translation of Tsongkhapa’s The GreatTreatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. Her primary research and translation interests focus on the work of the seventh-century Indian Buddhist philosopherCandrakīrti.Stephen J. Laumakis is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Aquinas ScholarsHonors Program at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Among hispublications are articles in East–West Connections: Review of Asian Studies, the ModernSchoolman, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and a book, An Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2008).Richard F. Nance is Assistant Professor of South Asian Buddhism in the Departmentof Religious Studies at Indiana University. He has published work in the Journal of IndianPhilosophy, Religion Compass, and the Journal of the International Association of BuddhistStudies, and is the author of Speaking for Buddhas: Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism (Columbia University Press, 2012).Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York,and Arché Professorial Fellow at the University of St. Andrews. His books includexv

notes on contributorsIn Contradiction (Nijhoff, 1987), Beyond the Limits of Thought (Clarendon Press, 2002),Towards Non-Being (Clarendon Press, 2005), Doubt Truth to be a Liar (Clarendon Press,2006), and Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2008).Christopher S. Queen is Lecturer on Buddhism and World Religions at Harvard University. Among his publications are Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movementsin Asia (with Sallie King; SUNY Press, 1996); American Buddhism: Methods and Findingsin Recent Scholarship (with Duncan Williams; Curzon Press, 1999); Engaged Buddhismin the West (Wisdom 2000); and Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (withCharles Prebish and Damien Keown; RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).Sarah Shaw has membership of the Faculty of Oriental Studies and Wolfson College,Oxford University, and is an honorary fellow of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies.She is the author of a number of books on Buddhist meditation and narrative, includingBuddhist Meditation: An Anthology of Texts from the Pali Canon (Routledge, 2006) andIntroduction to Buddhist Meditation (Routledge, 2008). She is also co-editor (with LindaCovill and Ulrike Roesler) of Lives Lived, Lives Imagined: Biographies of Awakening(Wisdom, 2010).James Mark Shields is Assistant Professor of Comparative Humanities and AsianThought at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Research Associate atthe Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard University. He is the author ofCritical Buddhism: Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought (Ashgate, 2011) andco-editor (with Victor Sōgen Hori and Richard P. Hayes) of Teaching Buddhism in theWest: From the Wheel to the Web (Routledge, 2003). He is currently working on a bookmanuscript entitled Warp and Woof: Modernism and Progressivism in Japanese Buddhism,1886–1936.Andrew Skilton is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London and Spalding Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.His research focuses on textual sources from Indian and South-East Asian Buddhismin Sanskrit and Pāli.Jonathan Stoltz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomasin St. Paul, Minnesota. He has authored papers on Buddhist epistemology in numerousjournals, including Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy East and West, and the Journal ofthe International Association of Buddhist Studies. He is currently writing a book on philosophy of mind in twelfth-century Tibetan Buddhism.Koji Tanaka is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University ofAuckland, New Zealand. A specialist in logic and Buddhist philosophy, he contributed“A Dharmakirtian Critique of Nagarjunians” to Pointing at the Moon (Oxford UniversityPress, 2009) and is a co-author of Moonshadows: Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011).Evan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is theauthor of Mind in Life: Biolo

Language in Zen Buddhism 349 Steven Heine 23 The Voice of Another: Speech, Responsiveness, and Buddhist Philosophy 366 Richard F. Nance D. Philosophy of Mind 377 24 Mind in Theravāda Buddhism 377 Maria Heim 25 Philosophy of Mind in Buddhism 395 Richard P. Hayes 26 Cognition, Phenome