Sumi Lee

PersonType	Category:Professors
FirstName / namefirst	Sumi
LastName / namelast	Lee
MainNamePhon	Sumi Lee
SortName	Lee, Sumi
bio	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)
associatedwebsite	https://dongguk.academia.edu/SumiLee
affiliation	Academy of Buddhist Studies, Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
phduniversity	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
cv	https://dongguk.academia.edu/SumiLee/CurriculumVitae
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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).

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

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.