Douglas L. Berger

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FirstName / namefirst	Douglas
LastName / namelast	Berger
namemiddle	L.
MainNamePhon	Douglas L. Berger
SortName	Berger, Douglas
bio	Douglas L. Berger is Professor of Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His primary areas of research and teaching are classical Brāhmiṇical and Indian Buddhist thought, Classical Chinese philosophy, and cross-cultural philosophical hermeneutics. He is the author of Encounters of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought (SUNY Press, 2015), "The Veil of Māyā:" Schopenhauer’s System and Early Indian Thought (Global Academic Publications, 2004), and coeditor, with JeeLoo Liu, of Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (Routledge, 2014). He has authored dozens of essays and book chapters on the areas of his research and is chief editor of the University of Hawai'i Press book series "Dimensions of Asian Spirituality." He has also served as the president of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (2014–2016). (Source: Ethics without Self, Dharma without Atman)
phduniversity	Temple University
education	Post-doctoral Research, Philosophy, Tübingen University, Germany, 2000 Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Temple University, 2000 M.A., in Religious Studies, Temple University, 1996 B.A. in Philosophy and Religion, University of North Dakota, 1993
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Douglas Berger

In a general sense, that which clears away darkness, though it often appears in Buddhist literature in reference to the mind or its nature. It is a particularly salient feature of Tantric literature, especially in regard to the advanced meditation techniques of the completion-stage yogas.

State University of New York