Lee, S.

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Sumi Lee

English Phonetics	Sumi Lee
Sort Name	Lee, Sumi

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

Website:	https://dongguk.academia.edu/SumiLee

About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Academy of Buddhist Studies, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

PhD University

University of California, Los Angeles

Education

Ph.D., Buddhist Studies, Dept. of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, California, US, June 2014. Dissertation Title: "Toward a New Paradigm of East Asian Yogācāra Buddhism: Taehyŏn (ca.8th century CE), a Korean Yogācāra monk, and His Predecessors." Advisors: Robert E. Buswell, William M. Bodiford, John B. Duncan, Richard von Glahn.; M.A., Buddhist Studies (Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, US, May 14, 2006. Advisor: Alexander Mayer.; M.A., Oriental Philosophy (Dept. of Philosophy), Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea,August 30, 2000. Thesis Title: Pulsŏng ŭi chungdo chŏk ŭimi: '"Pulsŏngnon ŭl chungsim ŭro" 佛性의 中道的 意味:『불성론』을 중심으로 [The Meaning of Buddha-nature as the Middle Way: Centered on the Foxing lun]. Advisor: Jaeryong Shim.; B.S., Pharmacy, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, February 26, 1996

Biographical Information

My research areas include East Asian Buddhism with particular focus on Yogācāra Buddhism, Buddhist philosophy of religion, Buddhist ethics, and Buddhist hermeneutics. My research interests focus on the relationship between Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha thought and its soteriological implications, the exegetical interpretations in East Asian Yogācāra tradition, and the intersections between East Asian Yogācāra and Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. In recent years, my research has been focused on the Awakening of Faith, the seminal treatise in East Asian Buddhist tradition, which is well known for its synthesis of Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha ideas. (Source Accessed July 27, 2020)

Curriculum Vitae

https://dongguk.academia.edu/SumiLee/CurriculumVitae

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• Lee, S. on the DRL
• Lee, S. on the LIB
• Lee, S. on the BNW

Buddha Nature Project

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Which Wheel Turning
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Yogācāra vs Madhyamaka
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Zhentong vs Rangtong
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Promotes how many vehicles?
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Analytic vs Meditative Tradition
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What is Buddha-nature?
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Causal nature of the vajrapāda
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Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

Buddha-nature, literally the "womb/essence of those who have gone (to suchness)."

Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.