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Dan Lusthaus is an American writer on Buddhism. He is a graduate of
Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...
's Department of Religion, and is a specialist in ''
Yogācāra Yogachara (, IAST: ') is an influential tradition of Buddhist philosophy and psychology emphasizing the study of cognition, perception, and consciousness through the interior lens of meditation, as well as philosophical reasoning (hetuvidyā). ...
''. The author of several articles and books on the topic, Lusthaus has taught at
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,
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, the
University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...
, 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's (K'uei-chi) commentary on the Heart Sutra with the Numata translation project. Lusthaus is an editor for the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, in the area of Indian/East Asian ''Yogācāra''/'' Tathāgatagarbha''. He contributed the contents of his catalogue of the major ''Yogācāra'' translations of ''
Xuanzang Xuanzang (; ; 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Bhikkhu, Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator. He is known for the epoch-making ...
'' to the DDB, as well as a number of other terms related to the '' Cheng Weishi Lun'' and '' Yogācārabhūmi-śāstra''.


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