Choong, Y.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Yoke Meei
LastName / namelast	Choong
MainNamePhon	Yoke Meei Choong
MainNameTib	宗玉媺
SortName	Choong, Yoke
bio	Yoke Meei Choong 宗玉媺 currently teaches as an Associate Professor in the Department of Buddhist Studies at Fo Guang University, Taiwan. Her research combines Buddhist philological study with the historical study of Buddhist thought. Her interest lies mainly in the derivation, adaptation and development of Mahāyāna concepts or thought from the ideas of mainstream Buddhism. Her chief publications include "Nirvāṇa and Tathatā in Yogācāra Texts: The Bodhisattva’s Adaptation of the Śrāvaka-Path", "To Realize or Not to Realize the Supreme Truth: A Change of the Conception of Realization”, “On the Interpretation of na śūnyatayā śūnya", and a book, Zum Problem der Leerheit (śūnyatā) in der Prajñāpāramitā. (Source: A Distant Mirror, about the authors, 529)
affiliation	Fo Guang University, Taiwan
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Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.

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).

A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a Bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to Buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have Bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses.

The state of being empty of an innate nature due to a lack of independently existing characteristics.