Dan Lusthaus is an American writer on Buddhism. He is a graduate of

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's Department of Religion, and is a specialist in ''

Yogācāra Yogachara ( sa, योगाचार, IAST: '; literally "yoga practice"; "one whose practice is yoga") is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through t ...

''. The author of several articles and books on the topic, Lusthaus has taught at

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, the

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, and in the Autumn of 2020 he was an Associate in the Department of South Asian Studies at

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. Lusthaus also collaborated with Heng-ching Shih in the translation of

Kuiji Kuījī (; 632–682), also known as Ji (), an exponent of Yogācāra, was a Chinese monk and a prominent disciple of Xuanzang.Lusthaus, Dan (undated). ''Quick Overview of the Faxiang School'' (). Source(accessed: December 12, 2007) His posthumous ...

's (K'uei-chi) commentary on the Heart Sutra with the Numata

translation project A translation project is a project that deals with the activity of translating. From a technical point of view, a translation project is closely related to the project management of the translation process. But, from an intercultural point of ...

. Lusthaus is an editor for the

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism The project of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (usually referred to by the acronym DDB) was initiated by Charles Muller, a specialist in East Asian Buddhism, during his first year of graduate school when he realized the dearth of lexicographi ...

, in the area of Indian/East Asian ''Yogācāra''/'' Tathāgatagarbha''. He contributed the contents of his catalogue of the major ''Yogācāra'' translations of '' Xuanzang'' to the DDB, as well as a number of other terms related to the '' Cheng Weishi Lun'' and '' Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra''.

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