Dan Lusthaus is an American writer on Buddhism. He is a graduate of
Temple University
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'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
UCLA
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,
Florida State University
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, the
University of Missouri
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, and in the Autumn of 2020 he was an Associate in the Department of South Asian Studies at
Harvard University
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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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* Members database a
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listing alumni of various universities' Religion programs.
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American Buddhists
American non-fiction writers
Temple University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Buddhist writers
University of Missouri faculty