Ming-Wood Liu

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bio	Ming-Wood Liu received his PhD in Buddhist Studies under UCLA’s inaugural professor of Chinese Buddhism, Kenneth Ch’en. Liu is the author of Madhyamaka Thought in China (Sinica Leidensia, 30), and many research articles in Chinese Buddhism, including "Fan Chen's ‘Treatise on the Destructibility of the Spirit’ and its Buddhist Critics" (Philosophy East and West), "The Lotus Sûtra and Garland Sûtra According to the Tien-t'ai and Hua-yen Schools in Chinese Buddhism" (T'oung Pao), and "Madhyamika and Yogacara Interpretations of the Buddhist-nature Concept in Chinese Buddhism" (Philosophy East and West). He was a lecturer in Chinese Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. (Source Accessed Jan 14, 2019)
phduniversity	UCLA
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Ming-Wood Liu

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.